OK, so I tried to download yet another version of this thing to see whether the fundamental bug that occurs when you try to add a custom source in the catalog at full folder depth had been fixed. Whether one would neither see the rainbow ball of doom once an attempt at indexing such a remote volume is tried, nor the perennial console error entry of "UKDirectoryEnumerator::nextObjectFullPath - MacOS Error ID = -42"

Nope.

But at least QS has the spacebar QuickLook implementation now!

(Nah, only joking. It doesn't.)

Have gripes about Launchbar too (which near everyone seems to love) but at least its indexing system seems to kind of function.

I'm a user who lingered on the fence about buying Alfred's PowerPack or not. I found pro's and con's to each. I felt I liked Quicksilver's three panel approach better than Alfred's actions. I loved Alfred's speed and felt customizing it was a bit easier. But then there was the whole $20 thing for Alfred's PowerPack which I would need. Then version 67 came out and wow, it is so much faster than previous versions of Quicksilver. I didn't realize how important this was to me and I no longer find myself wishing I had Alfred. Quicksilver is an amazing piece of software, these new devs are crushing it (in a good way) with new features and speedy development. I'm giving it a 4.5 stars because I still think there's room for simplifying / improving the menu system but all in all I highly recommend!

I've already reviewed Quicksilver here before, but I'm coming back to it.

This latest (b66) adds the ability to pop up a Quick Look window for any file (or URL) you enter. This makes it SO much easier to find things, it's just ridiculous (after all, don't almost all of us have a bunch of files with very similar names, where we'd like to figure out which one's which? Regardless of where they are in our directory structures?)

It's simply a bad-ass piece of software. Not perfect, but bad-ass for sure. Oh, and they give it away. So at least TRY Quicksilver for a couple weeks before you BUY a "launcher" program. None of QS's "competitors" offer anything like the power of Quicksilver.

Not saying that Quicksilver is bad. But Alfred plus its powerpack blows it out of the water. Seriously. Try it, and you'll see.

Spotlight, I hardly knew ye. Honestly, I'd disable Spotlight indexing entirely, but Mail.app searches depend on it! (I have everything but /Users excluded, actually...)

I use the terminal heavily, which probably helps as far as not needing Spotlight; I rarely use the Finder, preferring to use the terminal to move files and such for the most part. Combine that with Quicksilver, and hey, I can do almost everything from the keyboard! Yay!

I think my favorite feature (hard to pick, from the thousands...) is the use of triggers to run scripts. I have a few f-key cobos bound to launch various terminals/ssh sessions/etc through the magic of Quicksilver triggers.

For the average user, it's still a great launcher at the VERY least, and I'm guessing most users will get more than that out of it. Even on a pretty recent system with an SSD, I find results pop up faster and better with Quicksilver than with Spotlight... No, it doesn't index random documents as well as Spotlight does, but it's not meant to do that. The two co-exist just fine. :)

The one negative is that for various features, you do need a good bit of advanced configuration. But, hey, it does a ton of stuff even without any advanced config. I've had several friends who used to be primarily GUI-happy but now use Quicksilver at least to launch stuff...and there are far more advanced features than that available, even to the novice. The iTunes, Address Book, etc, plug-ins are all worthwhile.

Oh yeah, and it's free. For one of the very first things I install on any new Mac, I can't complain about that!

When I installed B59 I couldn't deselect "Show icon is dock". Using "Reset preferences" in the Preferences > Application panel fixed the problem.

Up until recently I had been a very happy Quicksilver user. But, after updating to this latest version everything is borked. Quicksilver will no longer run for more than two seconds straight without crashing. I've deleted all the associated files and tried reinstalling to no avail. I tried going back to the old ß54 I'm very disappointed, not at the developers but at how this situation is turning out for me. Quicksilver has become an indispensable part of my routine, and this has really slowed me down.

I hope this can be fixed quickly.

Double-modifier shortcut to activate interface no longer works. You now must have QS in front for double-modifier to work. Is there something I am missing?

I have discover Quicksilver caused the window-only screenshot key combination not functioning. (Hold down Command-Shift-4, click the once, then click the mouse key to take the screenshot.)

When Quicksilver activated, it would let the combination keys selected the whole screen area, instead of the particular selected open window. Disable Quicksilver would correct the problem and let the window-only screenshot functioning again.

Somehow it really slow to load,
and make my computer fan become louder every time I use QS.

in some case it uses most of my RAM, then crashes.
Cataloging my Library folder is still not solved the problem.

So I throw it away.