removing files of a given type from the catalog

[lloyd]

I wondered if a large number of font files I recently copied onto my machine was slowing down Quicksilver's cataloging. While I evaluate these fonts prior to installing them they are in several folders on my desktop. Quicksilver currently catalogs to a depth of 7 on my desktop. So in the Catalog pane I opened the information drawer for the Desktop folder, and entered .otf and .ttf in the "Exclude types:" field. Quicksilver recognized the file types as it replaced the extension I typed by a "button" of sorts with the name of the file type on it and what looks like the arrow signifying a pull-down menu (though nothing pulls down when I click).

Anyway, I thought this would remove these two filetypes from the catalog, but it did no such thing. Have I prevented it from indexing any new font files but not removed the ones already indexed from the catalog? If so, how do I remove them so they don't clutter up my results?

[Lucas Garron]

I just tried it on one of my folders, and the thing that got it to rescan the folder properly was changing "Include Contents" to "None" and back to "Folder Contents".

Changing the depth to 1 and back also worked.

»Lucas Garron

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:08 PM, lloyd <lloyd.h...@gmail.com> wrote:

I wondered if a large number of font files I recently copied onto my machine was slowing down Quicksilver's cataloging. While I evaluate these fonts prior to installing them they are in several folders on my desktop. Quicksilver currently catalogs to a depth of 7 on my desktop. So in the Catalog pane I opened the information drawer for the Desktop folder, and entered .otf and .ttf in the "Exclude types:" field. Quicksilver recognized the file types as it replaced the extension I typed by a "button" of sorts with the name of the file type on it and what looks like the arrow signifying a pull-down menu (though nothing pulls down when I click).

Anyway, I thought this would remove these two filetypes from the catalog, but it did no such thing. Have I prevented it from indexing any new font files but not removed the ones already indexed from the catalog? If so, how do I remove them so they don't clutter up my results?

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[lloyd]

Thanks Lucas. In fact I had a dumb problem: my custom catalog items included my home folder as well as my desktop, so even though I excluded them from the Desktop catalog, they were still indexed as part of my home folder (which contains the Desktop). Fixed it now.

But Quicksilver doesn't recognise certain file extensions, and it won't exclude them. For example, .pfm and .afm. What's up with that? It won't accept them in the "exclude" field.

[Rob McBroom]

On May 25, 2013, at 11:14 PM, lloyd <lloyd.h...@gmail.com> wrote:

> But Quicksilver doesn't recognise certain file extensions, and it won't exclude them. For example, .pfm and .afm. What's up with that? It won't accept them in the "exclude" field.

I’m able to add those, though I don’t know if I have any files of that type, or more importantly, an application that claims to support them. Maybe something is going wrong when it attempts to turn the extension into a human-readable type.

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