If this delay is being caused by a sleeping drive, there are two possible solutions that might be useful.
The first option is to go into the Energy Saver pane in System Preferences and turn off the option to put hard drives to sleep when possible. This * should* prevent you from having to wait for the drive to wake up when accessing it. However, (1) some drives don't respect this setting and go to sleep anyway, and (2) this is an all or nothing setting that affects every drive connected to your computer. It may be the case that you want to keep this custom installed drive awake while allowing the standard built-in drive to operate normally—in fact, you probably should, since it is better for the drive that way. So you may want to try the second option instead... The second option is to use the software Keep Drive Spinning<http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31158/keep-drive-spinning>(written by yours truly) to set your system to keep just that one drive awake. Of course, if a sleeping drive is not the cause of your QS delays. none of this will help. :) On Friday, May 3, 2013 8:32:01 AM UTC-4, Rob McBroom wrote: > > On May 3, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Afshin Haghgoo <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > I've replaced my optical drive with a notebook hard drive. It's not > necessarily external, but then it's filled to the brim at 1 tb. I've > removed a couple of folders that has a lot of files and might have > repetitively indexed, so I'll see how that goes and report back if there > are any changes. > > > Delays are often the result of power saving “sleep” mode on drives. Both > internal and external drives can do that, so it could still explain what > you’re seeing. (It’s usually more noticeable with external drives because > they take so much longer to wake up.) > > How full the drive is shouldn’t matter unless you’ve told Quicksilver to > index the whole thing. But if that’s the case, I would expect things to be > slow all the time. > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/> > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
