Thanks Rob, I found the plist. It was dense with nested text but I found that Xcode (free but large download from App Store) will parse plists. I found several appearances of 'j6' but deleted the one called 'key' which had 2 subfields, the abbreviation and the path. I relaunched Quicksilver and it seems to have survived.
Now that the abbreviation is gone, the behaviour made more sense. The first time I tried J6, it found several things, and I selected the file I wanted, and the 'Open' action appeared. The second time, it offered that file as first choice and continued to work. Even after I re-created an abbreviation, it continued to work. The manual was a good tip. I never knew that an abbreviation had to be made up from text in the search result, or that the file must be contained within the specified directories and their specified depths. Apparently it is a 'synonym' that I often want. That is described in the manual at https://qsapp.com/manual/Preferences/#synonyms, but it doesn't say how to make one, and I can't find it in the app or actions. So, that is *my spinoff question, how to make a synonym?* The period trick was new to me too Text mode, eh? "~/Desktop" did offer the 'open' action to me. When I hit period and then pasted in the path name for the J6 file, it offered the 'open' action too. I think that I must have moved that file after I created the abbreviation. > -- 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.
