On Monday, July 6, 2015 at 4:43:24 AM UTC-4, 1.61803 wrote > > http://qsapp.com/wiki/FAQ#How_do_I_clear_Quicksilver.27s_cache.3F >
Thanks phi, I did that and let Quicksilver reconstruct its indexes. The problem still persists. I have uploaded two screenshots to demonstrate, and to see if anyone can see what is wrong. In this one http://i.imgur.com/40FmFbJ.png you can see my settings for the custom Desktop source, including the filetypes to exclude. Overlaid is the Quicksilver interface with a file belonging to one of the unwanted filetypes brought up, and you can see the path at the bottom of the bezel. In the second one http://i.imgur.com/5Kfdf0N.png you see what happens when I ask QS to Show Source in Catalog: it will always highlight the 4th item in the list for the custom area of the catalog. In this case it is the file "Bookmarks. htm" which is merely a list of urls exported from Firefox. If I add or remove items from this area of the catalog, or reorder their appearance, "Show Source in Catalog" will continue to jump to the 4th item on the list, even if the 4th item is unchecked. Actually, now I've just tested this more widely, I realise that *any* item I ask Quicksilver to 'Show Source in Catalog' has the same behaviour. If I put a test file in the same folder as the unwanted file type, it will correctly be catalogued if given the file extension .txt, and it will be correctly excluded if given the file extension .otf (which is one of the ones I've excluded and which Quicksilver shows me it recognises by expanding the extension in the Exclude Types field). It's just if it has an unrecognised type that QS ignores the instruction to exclude it. Could I solve the problem of unwanted file types in the Catalog by manually excluding the folders that those file types are currently found in? I can't figure out how to do that... Say I want to exclude a folder on my Desktop (and all its contents recursively) from being catalogued, I can drag it over to the Catalog window and click "Omit source item"--but it will still be catalogued under the Desktop item. The list of scanned items under Desktop is much too long to scroll through (in the Contents drawer of the Catalog window) in order to locate the one I want to remove. I thought I had a brainwave when I temporarily set the Depth to 1 to reduce the list size, found the folder I wanted to exclude and unchecked its box in the Contents drawer, then reset the Depth to 4... but it didn't work, the items are still being catalogued (and now I realise of course that wouldn't work, because I only excluded the folder itself, and not all of its contents recursively). I could solve the problem by moving the offending folder somewhere else, I guess, but I'd rather figure out how to get Quicksilver to ignore it. By the way, I imagine someone will see my screenshot and tell me that my Catalog is too big with Depth set to 4 on the Desktop. Actually the performance issues I raised recently in another post on this forum (periods of unresponsiveness) have cleared up since I removed many other items from the catalog. I once again feel like I have the potential of my computer at my fingertips. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
