Sorry, I beg to differ ;-). Application Support contains the catalog's structure, as well as the mnemonics (the shortcuts learnt by QS while you use it), so you might want to preserve that, and it should* work. The part about actions is true. Plugins can be downloaded so they're not as critical.
> 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 think what you're seeing is that (since 10.9 IIRC) the defaults system uses in-memory storage, and only saves/load from files on login/logout (or Magic™, it doesn't really matter). Since the defaults system "thinks" it doesn't know about QS yet because it's not in its memory storage, it replaces the file with a brand new version. You should be able to load your old plist file into the defaults system using Terminal : $ defaults import com.blacktree.Quicksilver ~/path/to/com.blacktree.Quicksilver.plist And that should fix the preferences being erased. *YMMV, as Jon implies. It may be possible to get back in shape, you will likely end up with broken catalog entries, triggers, and after a rescan, most of the catalog should be renewed, and invalid/non-existent entries will not work, so you'll have some cleanup to do. Regards, Etienne Samson -- [email protected] > Le 20 août 2016 à 01:00, Jon Stovell <[email protected]> a écrit : > > 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. -- 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.
