P.S.: I speak from experience. Back when I was fairly new to QS, I migrated from one computer to another. I read some online advice telling me the same things that I just told you. I disregarded that advice and tried to copy over all of QS's support files anyway. The result was a mess. :)
On Friday, 19 August 2016 16:53:36 UTC-6, Jon Stovell wrote: > > 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.
