Comments on: Screencast: Leveraging Services

By: Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:49:57 +0000

this is great.. we can use it with quicksilver service :)

By: ravi

ravi — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:36:43 +0000

Hi Nick, very neat screen-cast. I have been using QS for quite some time but hadn’t been able to figure out the proxy object or the triggers part of QS. Now i have got ctrl+ESC for the current selection load to QS thing.

By: Eriscorap

Eriscorap — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:27:00 +0000

Danlore,

did you ever end up finding a fix on the spotlight forums. It’s been the third week, I’ve been trying to fix this and it’s driving me nuts!! I book marked this page and will post a solution if I find one.

Best of luck otherwise,

Erik

By: minikperi

minikperi — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:46:58 +0000

HI Nick! I’ve got a problem…I subsribed to the Apple Blog video podcast, and got it on itunes podcasts section, but whenever i sync my ipod the Apple Blog video podcasts never get synced, do you know why?

By: Danlore

Danlore — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:56:50 +0000

Yes, that seems to be it. I just created a text file called “test”, then went to Spotlight to search for it. At first it didn’t show up, but when I went into the “show all” pane and changed the “Where:” field to “Home”, it appeared. I then tagged the file with the word ‘test’ and searched for it with Spotlight, and it didn’t show up. When I re-indexed all was well.

Yeah, this sounds more and more like a Spotlight problem, so I’ll head on over to the Apple forums and see if anyone has encountered this before. I suspect that it’s some random thing that’s my own fault. Thanks for all your help thus far Jono, I really appreciate it. If I get this fixed I’ll let you know.

All the best,
Dan

By: Jono

Jono — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:04:48 +0000

So if you create a new file (text file for example) & save it it will show up immediately if you search for it in Spotlight? But anything added to the Spotlight comments don’t show up unless you re-index Spotlight, do I have that right?

To be honest I don’t know enough about Spotlight maintenance to really advise you. But if it became corrupted I’d have thought adding your HD to the privacy area (delete the index) then removing the HD from the privacy area (indexes the whole HD) would have been enough. I guess you could try the Spotlight reset thing in Onyx, but other than that you’d have to look into fixing spotlight somewhere else that know about these things (e.g. Apple’s forums).

By: Danlore

Danlore — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:00:34 +0000

Indeed, I thought that Spotlight should be able to keep up without the continual re-indexing. I’ve done nothing to Spotlight that I’m aware of, though I do run Onyx from time to time (but I checked, and I have selected the option to clear the Spotlight index).

I can run those searches fine, but not for anything newly tagged or when I first turn on my mac in the morning. If I want to use metadata of any sort then I’ve to re-index all over again. It’s a pity as when it works it’s very useful. I removed everything from the privacy part of Spotlight’s preferences, re-indexed the Mac HD and then relaunched QS, still no change in things. Do you think it’s possible that Spotlight has become corrupted in some way?

Dan

By: Jono

Jono — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:06:15 +0000

Glad we’re getting somewhere Dan.
It still seems as the problem is with Spotlight, as having to keep re-indexing Spotlight isn’t normal. Have you done anything else to tweak Spotlight, or run any maintenance apps that would affect Spotlight?

Once you’ve tagged a file/files with Quicksilver you should be able to type in the name of the tag into the Quicksilver command window & QS should find the tag. You’d then select ‘Show Files Matching Tag’ in the right hand side of the command window & it would create a saved search for the tag.
Maybe you could remove everything from the privacy part of Spotlight’s preferences for now & see if this helps at all?

By: Danlore

Danlore — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:31:22 +0000

@Jono:
Success! Excellent Jono, re-indexing Spotlight seems to have fixed the problem. I can now have a number beside the File Tags icon in Quicksilver’s catalog. Also, the smart folders now work as well. Thank you very much. However, there is just one issue remaining. When I create new tags, or add tags to other files, they don’t come up in Quicksilver generated smart folders, or in Spotlight. Now re-indexing Spotlight again fixes this, but I was just wondering whether this is normal, or if there is a way to work around continual re-indexing every time I add a tag to something.

Yeah, the privacy settings in Spotlight are set to ignore my external drive and its partitions (External Backup and Storage), and two folders on my HD that contain private documents.

Once again, thanks for the help thus far.

Dan

By: Jono

Jono — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:35:59 +0000

@Dan

That’s strange. Maybe the problem is with Spotlight rather than Quicksilver?
If you go to System Preferences, Spotlight, Privacy what do you have in there? (Have you accidentally added something there that would stop Spotlight from searching some areas?).

Maybe you should re-index Spotlight (drag your HD to the privacy area, then remove it to re-index). And then try tagging some files again after this.