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Open Thread: Quicksilver podcast questions
Merlin Also | Jul 28 2006
Merlin on MacBreak: Intro to Quicksilver The response to the MacBreak on Quicksilver has been enthusiastic to say the least. Thanks to everyone who's sent emails saying they now "finally 'get' Quicksilver." That's really cool to hear. Based on lots of the messages, though, there's still lots of questions about setting up Quicksilver, loading plugins, and configuring things the way you like -- especially as seen in the video. As we've observed on the site many times, the ramp-up to full-on Quicksilver configuration can be a bitch. I want to try and route all the questions and answers into this one thread if I can. So, there's a few links below that I [="Red"]REALLY[/] encourage you to explore thoroughly before asking questions (I swear most all the answers are out there), but if you have a question not answered, the 43 Folders hive mind and I can try to help you out. Ask away (after you've really really looked for the answer on your own, okay?). My access over the next few days is limited, so any help from the Quicksilver studs out there is greatly appreciated! Good Quicksilver links:
Quicksilver power users: feel free to chime in as well with your favorite links, tutorials, and responses to questions from the new folks. Many thanks in advance. 51 Comments
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 4 Days of the Spinning Wheel of DeathSubmitted by tuqqer on July 30, 2006 - 7:14pm.
I've been intrigued by QS for awhile, and Merlin's vid got me to try it out. However, after downloading it and starting it up, I've only gotten the spinning wheel of death. This SPOD appears when I hover my mouse over either the dock icon of QS or the menu icon of QS. This also occurred the other time I tried out QS, about 8 months ago. At that time, I figured I'd done something wrong and simply deleted it. This time, I figured that it might just be indexing my Mac (a 2-year old 2.0 Gig G5 tower, 10.4.7, 2.5 gigs of RAM, with 300 gig hard drive, 179 gigs of empty space left). So, I left it run for the past 4 days, day and night. Still, I get the spinning color wheel. I've tried restarting, rebuilding permissions, and running a few of the other fun things on Onyx. Still no love. Any ideas? I'm not pretty confident that this isn't indexing. Something is amiss. Should I try deleting the plist file? thanks for any suggestions. tuqqer » POSTED IN:
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