Quicksilver loses track of moved files. Why no?

March 1, 2009 6:48 PM

How can I get Quicksilver to keep track of files that have moved?

I'm running QS B54 on OS X Leopard, and love the heck out of it, but I have only one problem with it (beyond some minor buggy lack of functionality since a1c0r stopped supporting it, anyway). The problem is that I'm also running Hazel, and I have a rule set up that scans for anything in my Documents folder that's been untouched for more than n weeks and moves it to a subfolder labeled "Archive." Keeps only new and relevant stuff in Documents, so it's easier to browse.

However, I've noticed that after Hazel moves a file, QS can't see it anymore. If I go browsing for a file in my archive folder and manually open it, then QS again has it indexed, but I'd rather (if this is possible) somehow configure QS so it keeps track of the file or folder even after it's been archived. Is there a way to do this?

posted by middleclasstool to computers & internet (4 comments total)

It seems that the problem's one of two: 1) Quicksilver isn't indexing fast enough, or 2) Quicksilver can't find the file because it's not digging down deep enough.

As for 1): In the preferences menu of QS, under the 'catalog' tab, you should set 'rescan' to 'every 10 minutes'.

For 2): Click on the little info button for the 'documents' folder underneath the 'users' sub-tab. There should be a slider that indicates how deep QS is looking for your files -- if it's depth 1, then you might want to set it to a deeper depth. The documents folder is a preset so the slider is grayed out -- what you probably have to do is to manually add your 'Documents' folder to be indexed in the same menu, and to set the slider to depth 2 or 3.
posted by suedehead at 6:55 PM on March 1

Weirdly, it didn't work at all until I finally hit the "refresh" button on the list. Must be another bug.

Incidentally, I've heard QS has been open-sourced. Is the Blacktree B54 version still the best to use? Some of it doesn't work, like for instance the shelf doesn't seem to work at all for me.
posted by middleclasstool at 7:47 PM on March 1

the open-source version version updates are here
posted by Fin Azvandi at 8:01 PM on March 1

eh, strike one of those "versions" please
posted by Fin Azvandi at 8:02 PM on March 1