On 25 Mar 2014, at 8:49, lloyd wrote:
On Monday, March 24, 2014 12:53:08 PM UTC-4, Rob McBroom wrote:
Do you really want to assign an abbreviation to it, or do you want it
to
appear in the top-level catalog so you don’t have to navigate into
the
bundle to find it every time?
That would be fine, too--I just want to be able to call it up in a
couple
of keystrokes.
OK, then you want to add it to the catalog. Once it’s there, the
abbreviation you assigned will be immediately useful (and not just after
you navigate to the folder’s parent folder).
I think I see the problem: in Applications, only the file type
Applications
is requested in the scanning options. I remember from customising
another
item that I have to somehow clone this source and change the options,
I
can't edit the original...but I can't remember how to clone the
"Applications" source.
Go to the Attributes tab and click “Create Copy”. But **don’t do
that** in this case. You almost certainly don’t want the contents of a
bunch of applications clogging up your catalog. Just add the files you
care about.
There are a couple of ways to accomplish that.
### Text File ###
1. Create a text file that lists the full path to the folder by
itself on a line
2. In Quicksilver’s Catalog preferences, add a new “File & Folder
Scanner”
3. Choose the file you created in step 1
4. For “Include Contents”, choose “Text Lines”
5. Check “Omit source item”
Now the folder should be in the catalog. Assign an abbreviation to it,
or just let Quicksilver learn the abbreviation(s) you use on its own.
(The one you created before should already be in effect.)
If you have any other one-off files or folders you want in the catalog,
just add each path as a line in that file.
### Tags ###
You can also add one-offs by [tagging them][1] if that’s your thing.
That post was for OpenMeta, which is what you’d want to use on 10.7,
but for what it’s worth, you can do the same thing with Apple’s
official tags in 10.9.
Why not 1.1.3?
I guess I ignored prompts to update because I probably don't need new
features? (I apparently set the preferences to check monthly) But
prompted
by you, I just tried "check now", and it downloaded the update (it
announced two plugin updates, Contacts and something else, but after I
told
it to go ahead it told me the plugin downloads failed). I quit the
program
and restarted but the update doesn't seem to have taken effect. Maybe
next
time I restart the computer?
When the plug-in install fails, it might be canceling the whole thing.
What if you just install the app, but ignore the plug-in updates? (That
might cancel it too. I seem to remember running into something weird
like that.) Worst case, you could [download it manually][2] from the web
site. You might not need any new features, but there are a ton of
[problems fixed][3] since 1.0.0.
Speaking of version 1.0.0, today is its first birthday!
--
Rob McBroom
http://www.skurfer.com/
[1]:
http://projects.skurfer.com/posts/2013/tagging_tips/#one-off-catalog-entries
[2]: http://qsapp.com/download.php
[3]: http://qsapp.com/changelog.php
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