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@Andrew i know this isn't in the bug forum but I was able to reproduce @gregzacola's issue. It appears using arrow keys in the arrow cluster don't appear to dispatch properly. I didn't set up that elaborate list filter (which is a cool way to learn some shortcuts), but did set up a simple keyword to trigger the keycombo. I then assigned it to an action in moom. If I use modifiers with any other key it will work, but if I assign modifiers to something in the arrow cluster it won't. Is this by design for some reason or a bug?

I use a keyboard with Home and End keys. In most Mac apps, pressing them while in a text field will have a similar effect to Cmd+Left/Right: move to the beginning or end of the line. In the Alfred popup, these keys have no effect.

Yes. Even does it with a completely distinct key combo as per my first post. So anything with a ↑ ↓ ← →

I was able to reproduce this. I'm curious -- is it only using the keycombinations with the arrow cluster that cause you the issue?

I can no longer edit the top post, so just announcing here that I just pushed a small update (2.4.2) that supports Alfred 5.5's new Grid View. https://github.com/luckman212/alfred_clipsaver_workflow/releases/tag/2.4.2

Hi all, I often need to copy markdown text (typically from Obsidian) from my desktop and paste it on my phone using the Universal Clipboard, but the pasted text loses all line breaks. If I show the clipboard in Terminal with pbpaste, the line breaks are shown correctly, but if I paste on my iPhone they are gone. I tried to replace \n with \r and \r\n in the clipboard, to no avail. I also tried to covert to RTF using @vitor's MarkdownTransform, but I still lose the line breaks. A suboptimal workaround is to first paste the text in a rich-text format app, then copy it from there, but that introduces an extra line break. Does anybody else have the same issue? I was hoping to create a Universal Action to copy text for the purpose of pasting it via Universal Clipboard while preserving the line breaks.

Would love the ability for text view to auto save when ultimately writing to a text file. And possibly the ability to use command s to save while text view remains open.

There was a couple I was doing and then gave up. Here is one to help me remember shortcuts for Rectangle Pro I can't seem to add a workflow. See the stitched snapshots below

Names don’t matter, the workflow uses the Spotlight metadata to identify screenshots. But there is a configuration to not limit the search to the Desktop. It has been clarified above that setting a folder is under consideration. But it’s not likely to happen until I decide what to do regarding Apple’s breakage of the Imgur shortcut.

Compress PDF documents. Usage Either invoke the workflow by using the keyword (default: pdfcompress) and locate a PDF, or send a PDF to the workflow's "Compress PDF Document" File Action. A compression preset can be selected by pressing ⌥ before proceeding with ↩. File Filter ↩ Proceed to compress the PDF using the default strategy. ⌥↩ Select a compression preset. File Action ↩ Proceed to compress the PDF using the default strategy. ⌥↩ Select a compression preset. Compression Presets ↩ Proceed to compress the PDF using the selected strategy. The result will be a compressed document in the same location as the source PDF file. Dependencies With Homebrew install Ghostscript: brew install gs

Easily extract a specific page range from an existing PDF document and create a new PDF file with the selected pages. Usage Either invoke the workflow by using the keyword (default: pdfsplit) and locate a PDF, or send a PDF to the workflow's File Action. Specify the start and end pages of the range you want to be extracted. The specified first and last page can be previewed by pressing the ⌘ modifier. Specifying the Pages ↩ Proceed to extract text from the specified pages. ⌘↩ Preview the first and last PDF pages w/ Alfred's PDF View. ⌥↩ Proceed, push the result to the File Buffer and action it in Alfred. Press ↩ to return to the view where you can set the start and end pages. Dependencies With Homebrew install Poppler: brew install poppler

Extract text from PDF documents. Usage Extract the entire text from one or more PDFs by sending them to the workflow's File Action or locate a PDF with the File Filter by using the keyword (default: pdftotext). To extract the text from specific pages of a single document, use the ⌘ modifier. The result will be exported as a plain text document. File Filter ↩ Proceed to extract the entire text. ⌘↩ Proceed by specifing the pages to extract. ⌃↩ Proceed, push the result to the File Buffer and action it in Alfred. File Action ↩ Proceed to extract the entire text. ⌘↩ Proceed by specifing the pages to extract (single file only). ⌃↩ Proceed, push the result(s) to the File Buffer and action them in Alfred. Specifying the Pages ↩ Proceed to extract text from the specified pages. ⌘↩ Preview the first and last PDF pages w/ Alfred's PDF View. ⌥↩ Preview the contents of the first and last page w/ Alfred's Text View. ⌃↩ Proceed, push the result to the File Buffer and action it in Alfred. Press ↩ to return to the view where you can set the start and end pages. Dependencies With Homebrew install Poppler: brew install poppler

I played with this yesterday and the results were rather disappointing. The most limiting factor is the lack of support for markdown tables in Alfred's Text View. Syntax highlighting would also make a big difference. There were a lot of inconsistencies with pandoc, mostly around the broken tables. Html2md, a Go cli tool, produced slightly better and more consistent results, which are still messy when thrown at the Text View as it is now. Here's another alternative I found without markdown view that holds up well: alfred-devdocs.

ah. true. so does Alfred recommend any File Provider over another now? i think the doc used to prefer Dropbox in the past. thanks VitorGPT 😃️

Thank you @_Sascha_ `Rebuild macOS Metadata` is what worked for me!

You could try using my workflow (if Vitor does not mind me mentioning it!): Search for PNGs. All you have to do using it is to type a keyword, followed by <space> and the name of the folder and it will display all *.png files in the folder. Stephen

I was wondering if I could adapt this script to work for my case. My screenshots folder is in ~/Downloads/Screenshots/ and none of the files have the word "screenshot" in them. How can I point this script to theis specific folder? It currently doesn't work and there's no configuration option for a folder. Thank you.

Did you type a space after open? Also, try just just opening Alfred and pressing the space bar (you’ll see ' appear) and type the name of your file then. See also Troubleshooting File Indexing Issues.

I’m not sure I understand what you mean by the key combination or the key command. When you are at the Universal Actions panel you just press ↩. Here: You only press ⌥↓ or ⌥↑ on regular results. Here: If that’s what you’re doing, would you mind recording a short video? Sometimes these things end up being a miscommunication that is resolved when actually seeing the behaviour.

Maybe you have to add the folders that contain the files you expect in the Alfred Prefernces -> Default Results -> Search scope. EDIT: or, just type the filename instead of prefacing it with "open"

Yes, I have found the buffer, but as I said in an earlier answer, for some weird reason, on my system the file action menu entry for "Add File to Buffer" does _not_ have or react to the keycommand. Yes, I've checked the settings in preferences and even then "Compatibility" check box is on (also, it didn't work when it was off...). So yes, if I could select the files, call up the file action and then hit a key-combination to add those files to the buffer that's really all I would like to have. I don't understand why the key command isn't available for me... if you have an idea of what I could check to see why it isn't available, please let me know! If've already checked all the commands and assignments in the Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts preference pane, alt-arrow up is not used anywhere.

If I type in open file it shows the option but I can't select it. If I start to type in a file name it won't appear. It just shows google search etc. I ran troubleshooting on the file and it was all green (see below) in Alfred. How can I get files to come up in search? Running Alfred 5.5 with powerpack on Mac M1 Sonoma 14.4.1 Starting Diagnostics... File: 'IMG_8515.jpg' Path: '/Users/username/Downloads' ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file cache database... ✅ File cache integrity is ok ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if file is readable... ✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file. Unix Permissions: 420 Underlying Type: NSFileTypeRegular Extended Attributes: ( "com.apple.lastuseddate#PS", "com.apple.macl", "com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags", "com.apple.metadata:kMDLabel_g5a2afvxdywsrv54ihqz63mffm", "com.apple.quarantine" ) ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS... ✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive ----------------------------------------------------------- Check direct file metadata... ✅ Direct metadata available Display Name: IMG_8515 Other Names: IMG_8515.jpg Content Type: public.jpeg Last Used: 2024-04-24 19:14:52 +0000 ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ✅ Metadata contains required items _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "IMG_8515.jpg" kMDItemAcquisitionMake = "Apple" kMDItemAcquisitionModel = "iPhone 11" kMDItemAlternateNames = ( "IMG_8515.jpg" ) kMDItemAperture = 1.69599381283836 kMDItemBitsPerSample = 24 kMDItemColorSpace = "RGB" kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2024-04-24 19:13:51 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2024-04-24 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2024-04-24 19:13:51 +0000 kMDItemContentType = "public.jpeg" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "public.jpeg", "public.image", "public.data", "public.item", "public.content" ) kMDItemCreator = "17.4.1" kMDItemDateAdded = 2024-04-24 19:14:52 +0000 kMDItemDisplayName = "IMG_8515" kMDItemDocumentIdentifier = 0 kMDItemEXIFVersion = "2.3.2" kMDItemExposureMode = 0 kMDItemExposureProgram = 2 kMDItemExposureTimeSeconds = 0.008264462809917356 kMDItemFlashOnOff = 0 kMDItemFNumber = 1.8 kMDItemFocalLength = 4.25 kMDItemFocalLength35mm = 26 kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2024-04-24 19:14:52 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2024-04-24 19:14:52 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 16 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null) kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 1 kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null) kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "IMG_8515.jpg" kMDItemFSNodeCount = (null) kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 4264371 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" kMDItemHasAlphaChannel = 0 kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2024-04-24 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemISOSpeed = 40 kMDItemKind = "JPEG image" kMDItemLastUsedDate = 2024-04-24 19:14:52 +0000 kMDItemLastUsedDate_Ranking = 2024-04-24 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemLogicalSize = 4264371 kMDItemMeteringMode = 5 kMDItemOrientation = 1 kMDItemPhysicalSize = 4268032 kMDItemPixelCount = 12192768 kMDItemPixelHeight = 4032 kMDItemPixelWidth = 3024 kMDItemProfileName = "Display P3" kMDItemRedEyeOnOff = 0 kMDItemResolutionHeightDPI = 72 kMDItemResolutionWidthDPI = 72 kMDItemUseCount = 5 kMDItemUsedDates = ( "2024-04-24 05:00:00 +0000" ) kMDItemUserCreatedDate = ( "2024-04-24 19:14:52 +0000" ) kMDItemUserCreatedUserHandle = ( 501 ) kMDItemWhiteBalance = 0 ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file is in search scope... ✅ File exists within Alfred's default search scope ----------------------------------------------------------- Check MDQuery file search... ✅ macOS returned a match for this file in your search scope. File Search Results for search scope ( "[1] /System/Volumes/Data/Users/username/Downloads/IMG_8515.jpg" ) File Search Results for ~/ ( "[1] /System/Volumes/Data/Users/username/Downloads/IMG_8515.jpg" ) File Search Results for / ( "[1] /System/Volumes/Data/Users/username/Downloads/IMG_8515.jpg" ) ----------------------------------------------------------- ✅ Troubleshooting passed

Since (mandatorily) changing to the File Provider API, popular third party services all evict files by default. Even so, some do seem more reliable than others and Dropbox’s appears to have been the steepest decline. But this is mostly anecdotal from personal observation, so take it with a grain of salt.

OH! another one that i didn't know. yeah i sync with Dropbox. wasn't aware of the "making available offline". thought that was how Dropbox was working actually lol. doing this and let's see. thanks again and will update if needed.

and yes, totally fast now. fantastic. thanks again.