Removing the caches fixed the problem! Maybe I should have saved them for further analysis, but at this point I'm happy to just move on. Thanks much!
On Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 4:00:29 PM UTC-4 Nathan Henrie wrote: > Very weird. > > There are caches at ~/Library/Caches/Quicksilver and > ~/Library/Caches/com.blacktree.Quicksilver that I blow away frequently > when testing; you might try quitting, rm -rf on those, and relaunching. > AFAIK "keys.txt" isn't some kind of special string. > > Nate > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2023, at 11:47 AM, James McLean wrote: > > Starting within the correct directory, which also contains a duplicate of > the file which I *can* arrow into: > > data% stat keys.txt > 16777220 42216787 -rw-r--r-- 1 mclean staff 0 21755 "Oct 16 08:12:59 2023" > "Oct 16 08:12:58 2023" "Oct 16 08:12:58 2023" "Oct 8 21:07:34 2023" 4096 48 > 0 keys.txt > data% stat keys\ copy.txt > 16777220 42239087 -rw-r--r-- 1 mclean staff 0 21572 "Oct 9 00:58:00 2023" > "Oct 9 00:38:33 2023" "Oct 9 00:57:58 2023" "Oct 8 21:07:34 2023" 4096 48 > 0 keys copy.txt > data% mv keys.txt keys_alt.txt > data% stat keys_alt.txt > 16777220 42216787 -rw-r--r-- 1 mclean staff 0 21755 "Oct 16 13:39:35 2023" > "Oct 16 08:12:58 2023" "Oct 16 13:39:32 2023" "Oct 8 21:07:34 2023" 4096 48 > 0 keys_alt.txt > data% > > I guess I've added a few bytes since making the copy, but essentially the > same. QuickSilver can Show Contents on keys_alt.txt just fine, but fails > if I mv back. > > It certainly would have been quite insane if the file name were some > secret auto-destruct trigger. Is there some cache that I need to nuke? > > Cheers, > -- James McLean > > On 10/16/23 07:39, 'Nathan Henrie' via Quicksilver wrote: > > Can you open a terminal and run stat ~/Desktop/keys.txt and reply with > the output? > > FWIW, I created a file named keys.txt and I can arrow in / show contents > just fine. > > Nate > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2023, at 5:06 AM, James McLean wrote: > > This happened out of the blue, as far as I can recall. By moving stuff > around (copying, pasting, renaming), I've discovered that the problem > exists only for one specific filename, "keys.txt". If I "mv keys.txt > keys2.txt", then I can right-arrow into the renamed file. If I then "mv > keys2.txt keys.txt" back to the original name, then I once again cannot > show the file contents. > > On Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 2:53:04 PM UTC-4 Rob McBroom wrote: > > On 4 Oct 2023, at 2:43, James McLean wrote: > > > Re: issue on GitHub: I'm afraid that this may be user error, rather than > a > > real issue. > > > > Further testing indicates that this problem only occurs for one single > > file. (Which also happens to be the file I use this feature on about 99% > > of the time - argh!) What could possibly break Show Contents for one txt > > file? I've chmod the file all around. mdls gives the ContentType as > > public.plain-text. ??? > > Sorry if you mentioned this, but I only have the most recent message in > this thread. Did this start with a particular version of Quicksilver or > just out of the blue? > > Maybe try copying the file to another folder and see if the same thing > happens? > > -- > Rob McBroom > > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/blacktree-quicksilver/94c53c71-ffca-4ee6-9f72-904c2821bf62n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/blacktree-quicksilver/94c53c71-ffca-4ee6-9f72-904c2821bf62n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/blacktree-quicksilver/xunIpvIpFyI/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/blacktree-quicksilver/8c3dc0fb-c221-4a5e-909c-1fc31cfec791%40app.fastmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/blacktree-quicksilver/8c3dc0fb-c221-4a5e-909c-1fc31cfec791%40app.fastmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/blacktree-quicksilver/56bb5ded-578d-4a4e-ad98-315644e84f94%40geneseo.edu > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/blacktree-quicksilver/56bb5ded-578d-4a4e-ad98-315644e84f94%40geneseo.edu?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. 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