How to I tell Quicksilver to rely on the path name

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Kevin Jaques

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Jun 5, 2026, 1:37:18 PM (3 days ago) Jun 5
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I have a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to open various directories on a Shared Drive. Up to now, my iMac has hosted the drive, but now it must be hosted by my MacBook, which has a more recent system, so that my backup software, CrashPlan, will run.

So, from the iMac, which has mounted the Shared Drive, the path names are identical. What was '/Volumes/Shared Drive/Legal Data/Documents/!To Be Printed/' remains '/Volumes/Shared Drive/Legal Data/Documents/!To Be Printed/', even though before it was physically connected and now it is mounted by file sharing.

The Quicksilver shortcuts APPEAR to be using path names, but none of the short cuts work. I guess it isn't recognizing the path as a Finder Directory.

And yet it could. There must be some way to use a textual path name to identify a Finder Directory in Quicksilver. How?

metropical

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Jun 5, 2026, 2:53:11 PM (3 days ago) Jun 5
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Hi Kevin.  This user group is not so much used of late because of spam.
Go here https://qsapp.com/ and find support in the upper right corner.

I'm no expert, but I believe you need to re-educate QS as to the path to your LAN'd drive.
In QS/Triggers.  Double-click your existing Trigger and in the first (Item) box, enter the first few letters of the drive name.
If that doesn't give you some suggestions, try the 1st few letters of the path.
If that doesn't, then I'd say make a new Trigger using the same method.
Hope that works for you.
Fritz
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