Would definitely recommend checking out Alfred to get some ideas. Nowhere near as powerful as QS but has some really cool ideas nevertheless
Rob McBroom <mailto:[email protected]> January 21, 2013 12:51 PMDoes this operate on file names or contents (or both)? I guess I could install it and see for myself, but that seems unlikely. :-)-- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/> --You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en.Tony <mailto:[email protected]> January 15, 2013 11:50 PMYea, thats what i feared the answer would be and its pretty much unusable in its current state. I have been dabbling with Alfred a little bit lately and they have a feature where you can find any file on your system. Im assuming its hooking into spotlight somehow and the results are instantaneous.I found it pretty addicting once you get used to it and it would be really cool to get something in QS as you could then dramatically cut down on the size of your catalog, greatly improving performance.Tony Rob McBroom <mailto:[email protected]> January 14, 2013 9:52 AM On Jan 13, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Tony<[email protected]> wrote:Just tried using the "Get Spotlight Results" action and its taking an extremely long time for the results to show up (~30secs). All the other spotlight actions that launch in the finder seem to be instantaneous. Is this behavior normal and is there any way to improve the performance?If you do a specific search, like `kMDItemKind == 'Application'`, it runs pretty quickly. When you just search for one or more words, it pieces together a query to (hopefully) do what Finder does, which is search file name, contents, and Spotlight comments. A search for "animal chin" will become kMDItemFSName LIKE[cd] 'animal chin*' || kMDItemFinderComment LIKE[cd] '*animal chin*' || kMDItemTextContent LIKE[cd] 'animal chin*' Whether or not it's using the right criteria is just a guess, and in any case, it appears to be very slow. I'm open to suggestions if anyone knows a faster way. Quicksilver will also wait until all results are found before showing any, but you can see in Finder that even *that* shouldn't take very long. So currently, the only way to speed things up is to be more specific. The syntax can be found athttps://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/SpotlightQuery/Concepts/QueryFormat.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001849-CJBEJBHHAlso is there a reverse action for this action similar to the Google search action where i can have Spotlight in the first pane> Search For> Search Term?Not at the moment. Tony <mailto:[email protected]> January 13, 2013 1:17 PM Hi,Just tried using the "Get Spotlight Results" action and its taking an extremely long time for the results to show up (~30secs). All the other spotlight actions that launch in the finder seem to be instantaneous. Is this behavior normal and is there any way to improve the performance?Also is there a reverse action for this action similar to the Google search action where i can have Spotlight in the first pane > Search For > Search Term?Thx Tony
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