QuickSilver syncing between Macs or import/export settings

[Adriano Borgobello]

Hi. I'm new to QuickSilver. But while I'm planning to update from Catalina, I have to leave Spark (www.shadowlab.org/softwares/spark.php), my preferred launcher until today (I guess I didn't really understand QS power).

Maybe, in short I won't even remember Spark because I'll go in love for QuickSilver...

But the first thing I'd like to understand, is if and how I can synchronise the usage of QS between my Macs. With spark I got a import/export future... maybe QS has it too, or can be synced through the cloud? Or must I set it entirely on all my Macs? I have a lot of triggers to  move from Spark...

[Rob McBroom]

There’s no automatic sync and never has been because it probably wouldn’t work in a lot of cases. (You might have something indexed on one machine that doesn’t even exist on the others, for example.)

However, you should be able to move things from one machine to another by just copying

• ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver
• ~/Library/Preferences/com.blacktree.Quicksilver.plist

If you want to try to sync those somehow by creating symlinks or something, feel free, but that’s not officially supported.

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Rob McBroom

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The actual files cataloged will probably differ to some (perhaps a large some) extent between machines, but I think there's a lot that won't. Looking through the 4 config sections in the QS window on two of my machines, about 99% are the same, and the differences are things that have just kind of floated out of sync and probably should be the same, or the number of items in each Source in the Catalog tab, which I'd expect to be different. So I think syncing via iCloud at least would be useful, although it's definitely a "nice to have", QS is fine without it, but I would find it handy.

[Patrick Robertson]

This idea has definitely been raised before: https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/issues/1158

However, the issue was closed due to inactivity. If you feel strongly about this feature, please comment on that issue and we can re-open it.

As Rob said, you could try syncing specific files using your own iCloud/Dropbox setup.

On the other hand, I would be happy to implement a settings ‘export’ and ‘import’ feature, that would allow you to ‘export’ all your Quicksilver settings as a single file, and then ‘import’ them into Quicksilver on another computer. It’s not quite a sync feature, but it would be very useful for moving Quicksilver to a new computer.

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[Adriano Borgobello]

Personally I think that import/export future maybe very useful. Being used to Spark, it seems strange to me that QuickSilver doesn't already have this future. Cloud syncing (using iCloud) would be a step ahed, but I realise that it could have some downside. While import procedure can analyse invalid settings and discard them or ask the user how to deal with them, cloud syncing must be able to hold settings valid on all synced computers... maybe a little more complex.