I'm not sure that using a Spotlight source would really help in this situation, David Rees. Spotlight sources are simply another way to get things into Quicksilver's own catalogue. When the drive is disconnected, Spotlight will report to Quicksilver that the resources on that drive no longer exist on the system, and so Quicksilver will remove them from its catalogue. This isn't any different in the end from what happens when QS scans the drive directly.
Ontonator's problem isn't with trying to get a file hierarchy into his QS catalogue. It is with trying to handle certain sets of items in the catalogue in a special way. I understand why you would think of Spotlight as a solution for this, though. Spotlight is able to access its full index of a connected drive from the moment the drive is mounted without having to rebuild, whereas QS has to rebuild its catalogue every time the drive is connected or removed in order to stay up to date. The reason is that Spotlight is able to store an index for each drive on each drive, whereas QS has to maintain a single central index for everything. That difference in construction is a significant one when it comes to situations like network drives. On Sunday, June 2, 2013 10:26:08 PM UTC-4, David Rees wrote: > > If you are happy to search for what you want rather than navigate to it > maybe you could try using a Spotlight catalog? That will put the indexing > on Spotlight, which I think is more aggressive in keeping an indexed cache. > Its definitely less load on QS. > > You would need to to be sure Spotlight is indexing those network volumes. > I'm not sure where things are with that, but here is one reference: > http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/enabling-spotlight-for-network-volumes/ > > d > > On Sunday, June 2, 2013 2:01:40 PM UTC-7, Ontonator wrote: >> >> I connect to my other mac through the network, and when I try to browse >> it with Quicksilver, it is agonisingly slow. Is there a way to maintain an >> index of the other computer, but not include it in the global catalogue. > > -- 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.
