Alfred does not list all Apps

[obstschale]

Hi Folks,

 

I have a problem that Alfred does not lists all installed applications. There are several apps which Alfred cannot find. For example Microsoft Office Apps like Word or Lync are not listed. Let me quickly summarize what I tried so far to fix it:

 

• I checked this page: http://support.alfredapp.com/kb:indexing
• Spotlight is finding the apps
• All Spotlight Search Results are checked in SystemPref.
• All necessary folders are in Alfred's Search Scope (more about that later)
• I reloaded Alfred's Cache many times (even quit it)

I think I see a small pattern here. All Apps which are in /Applications are listed like intended. Only apps in subfolders like /Applications/Microsoft/ or /Application/Garmin are not listed. However, there are exceptions like /Applications/modelio/ or /Applications/MAMP/ are listed. Interestingly, both subfolders /Applications/Microsoft/ and /Applications/Garmin/ are in Alfred's Search Scope but /App/modelio and /App/MAMP are not in that list but Alfred knows these subfolders are in /Applications/.

 

I have the feeling Alfred cannot recreate the index correctly. Is there a way I can force Alfred to do it?

[Andrew]

Hi Folks,

 

I have a problem that Alfred does not lists all installed applications. There are several apps which Alfred cannot find. For example Microsoft Office Apps like Word or Lync are not listed. Let me quickly summarize what I tried so far to fix it:

 

• I checked this page: http://support.alfredapp.com/kb:indexing
• Spotlight is finding the apps
• All Spotlight Search Results are checked in SystemPref.
• All necessary folders are in Alfred's Search Scope (more about that later)
• I reloaded Alfred's Cache many times (even quit it)

I think I see a small pattern here. All Apps which are in /Applications are listed like intended. Only apps in subfolders like /Applications/Microsoft/ or /Application/Garmin are not listed. However, there are exceptions like /Applications/modelio/ or /Applications/MAMP/ are listed. Interestingly, both subfolders /Applications/Microsoft/ and /Applications/Garmin/ are in Alfred's Search Scope but /App/modelio and /App/MAMP are not in that list but Alfred knows these subfolders are in /Applications/.

 

I have the feeling Alfred cannot recreate the index correctly. Is there a way I can force Alfred to do it?

 

Alfred uses OS X's metadata index to find apps, so there will be a quirk in there somewhere preventing it from returning all the apps to Alfred.

 

When you reindexed, did you check the box to delete the ./Spotlight-V100 folder?

 

You could try temporarily renaming e.g. /Applications/Garmin to /Applications/Garmin2, wait a few moments for OS X to reindex this, then try searching in Alfred again. If this works, rename it back to Garmin, wait a few moments and all should be good again.

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[obstschale]

I didn't checked the box to delete ./Spotlight-V100.

 

I just tried your second suggestion to rename the folder. This works just fine Thank you.

[arifzed]

Hi Folks,

 

I have a problem that Alfred does not lists all installed applications. There are several apps which Alfred cannot find. For example Microsoft Office Apps like Word or Lync are not listed. Let me quickly summarize what I tried so far to fix it:

 

• I checked this page: http://support.alfredapp.com/kb:indexing
• Spotlight is finding the apps
• All Spotlight Search Results are checked in SystemPref.
• All necessary folders are in Alfred's Search Scope (more about that later)
• I reloaded Alfred's Cache many times (even quit it)

I think I see a small pattern here. All Apps which are in /Applications are listed like intended. Only apps in subfolders like /Applications/Microsoft/ or /Application/Garmin are not listed. However, there are exceptions like /Applications/modelio/ or /Applications/MAMP/ are listed. Interestingly, both subfolders /Applications/Microsoft/ and /Applications/Garmin/ are in Alfred's Search Scope but /App/modelio and /App/MAMP are not in that list but Alfred knows these subfolders are in /Applications/.

 

I have the feeling Alfred cannot recreate the index correctly. Is there a way I can force Alfred to do it?

Hi obstschale

 

If you have or are planning to developing any lync workflows, it'll be great if you could share .. 

 

[obstschale]

No, sorry. I don't have or plan to develop any Lync workflows. I use it just for work.