Actually, you really don't want to migrate QS's entire application support folder and settings anyway.
The one thing that you probably do want to do is copy over your plugins and any custom actions you might have created. For the plugins, just copy the contents of ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Plugins on your old computer onto the desktop of your new computer, and then open them. QS will automatically install them. For your custom actions (if any), just copy them from ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions on your old computer to the same folder on your new computer, and then restart QS. Everything else in QS's application support and its preferences plist is stuff you don't want to bring with you. You see, QS very, very much tailors itself to the specific computer that it is running on. The catalogue inventories the items on that specific computer. The ranking of objects and items sorts itself based on what you do with that specific computer. Etc. Since you are not using Migration Assistant, the catalogue on your old computer would be 100% wrong if used on your new computer (and even if you did use Migration Assistant, a significant portion of the catalogued items would still be wrong). Moreover, since this will be a separate work computer, you'll be using it to do different tasks than your old computer. Therefore, the actions and objects you most frequently use are bound to be different, so you won't want to have the same ranking anyway. On Friday, 19 August 2016 15:04:09 UTC-6, Brian Hart wrote: > > Hi! I've used QS for a long time now and I've recently got a new Macbook > Pro to setup. This is a separate work computer so I don't want to use > migration assistant to just copy my whole home folder over so I'm trying to > cherry pick what I want to restore. QS is one of those things. I've > backed up the ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver folder and the > com.blacktree.Quicksilver.plist from my other Mac and have tried multiple > times to restore them on the new one. It appears that after I copy them as > soon as I launch QS it replaces the plist file and doesn't maintain my > preferences. I cannot for the life of me figure out why it is doing this. > Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions as to what I may be missing or > maybe a better process for restoring preferences? > > Thank you! > > Brian Hart > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
