Web Searches makes QS hang or crash

[Afshin]

Hi guys, 

I'm wondering if there's a way to have the enabled web searches in the catalog preloaded before they're called up?  When one of them is immediately focused in the first pane the url either makes QS hang or crash.  I've looked through the FAQ and made sure it wasn't any of the listed apps that is known to cause problems with QS, but I still can't say definitely that this the crashes are due to the urls of the web search, but the only times that QS is crashing on me is when the first pane had a web search function in it.  

Thanks for the consideration.  Love what you guys do!  

-Afshin 

[Patrick Robertson]

Could you please open up Console.app and find a crash report relating to Quicksilver and the crashes you are seeing, then attach it to this thread? That will help us better debug the problem

-Afshin 

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[Afshin]

Sure, I attached the crash from yesterday. 

On Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:08:28 PM UTC-7, Patrick wrote:

Could you please open up Console.app and find a crash report relating to Quicksilver and the crashes you are seeing, then attach it to this thread? That will help us better debug the problem

On 17 April 2013 07:49, Afshin <ahag...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi guys, 

I'm wondering if there's a way to have the enabled web searches in the catalog preloaded before they're called up?  When one of them is immediately focused in the first pane the url either makes QS hang or crash.  I've looked through the FAQ and made sure it wasn't any of the listed apps that is known to cause problems with QS, but I still can't say definitely that this the crashes are due to the urls of the web search, but the only times that QS is crashing on me is when the first pane had a web search function in it.  

Thanks for the consideration.  Love what you guys do!  

-Afshin 

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[Afshin]

Here's one from today. 

[Patrick Robertson]

OK, they are both quite similar. A few questions:

If you go to the Extras preferences do you have the 'show task viewer automatically' option enabled?

Under the command prefs do you have 'show children in results list' enabled?

It seems like when you're trying to bring up a web search, Quicksilver is attempting to get the icons for many URLs and this is causing it to crash

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[Afshin Haghgoo]

I don't have the task viewer enabled, but I do have 'show children in results list'.  Should I disable that?

-Afshin 

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[Patrick Robertson]

Yes, could you try disabling it and let us know how things go

[Afshin Haghgoo]

Ok will do.  Thanks for the consideration Patrick!! 

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[Afshin Haghgoo]

I'm no longer experiencing any crashes.  I'm just wondering why at times QS takes time to load, and at other times it responds quickly?  

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[Rob McBroom]

On May 2, 2013, at 3:09 AM, Afshin Haghgoo <ahag...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm no longer experiencing any crashes. I'm just wondering why at times QS takes time to load, and at other times it responds quickly?

Could it be adding files from a slow disk (like an external drive) to your catalog?

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[Afshin Haghgoo]

I've replaced my optical drive with a notebook hard drive.  It's not necessarily external, but then it's filled to the brim at 1 tb.  I've removed a couple of folders that has a lot of files and might have repetitively indexed, so I'll see how that goes and report back if there are any changes.  

And thank you for the consideration.  I appreciate it Rob! 

-Afshin

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[Rob McBroom]

On May 3, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Afshin Haghgoo <ahag...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've replaced my optical drive with a notebook hard drive.  It's not necessarily external, but then it's filled to the brim at 1 tb.  I've removed a couple of folders that has a lot of files and might have repetitively indexed, so I'll see how that goes and report back if there are any changes.

Delays are often the result of power saving “sleep” mode on drives. Both internal and external drives can do that, so it could still explain what you’re seeing. (It’s usually more noticeable with external drives because they take so much longer to wake up.)

How full the drive is shouldn’t matter unless you’ve told Quicksilver to index the whole thing. But if that’s the case, I would expect things to be slow all the time.

[Jon Stovell]

If this delay is being caused by a sleeping drive, there are two possible solutions that might be useful.

The first option is to go into the Energy Saver pane in System Preferences and turn off the option to put hard drives to sleep when possible. This should prevent you from having to wait for the drive to wake up when accessing it. However, (1) some drives don't respect this setting and go to sleep anyway, and (2) this is an all or nothing setting that affects every drive connected to your computer. It may be the case that you want to keep this custom installed drive awake while allowing the standard built-in drive to operate normally—in fact, you probably should, since it is better for the drive that way. So you may want to try the second option instead...

The second option is to use the software Keep Drive Spinning (written by yours truly) to set your system to keep just that one drive awake.

Of course, if a sleeping drive is not the cause of your QS delays. none of this will help. :)