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@Jacob Graf You can pop up Alfred and type the ~ tilde to open File Navigation and see your top-level directories. What specifically are you looking to achieve?

@football12908 I've tested the Things 3 workflow and it's working well as far as I can see. Could you please be more specific and include more details in your post? This post tells you some of the essential information we need to help you further.

@matts I've had a look at your Diagnostics (thanks for sending them) and can see you're using a /sync/ folder but I'm not familiar with SyncThing or its preferences. In the same way we highlight here that preferences syncing folders must be set to always available / keep available offline, could you ensure this is also the case with the service you use? https://www.alfredapp.com/help/advanced/sync/#always-offline This is the most likely source of issue if Alfred is unable to access the preferences at the point you try to show the search box.

@Toby Depending on the complexity of what you want to achieve, you could most likely use List Filters in a similar way to these simple examples: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/triggers/snippet/snippet-triggers-with-dynamic-inputs/ Scroll down to where you see a list consisting of Andrew, Vero, Jack and Rose; This is a list filter, into which you could import a csv of the different client emotions then type a letter or two to narrow down the list and select it. It would then be added to your final content to paste as a variable / query. I haven't had coffee yet, so I can't quite picture how you'd chain multiple emotions (as this example is only seeking *one* selected option) 🤣 but it's likely possible.

@alfrednoob You can create a single workflow within which you set all of them, like this: https://www.alfredapp.com/blog/tips-and-tricks/give-files-nicknames-to-find-them-faster/ You can copy-paste the pair of objects a few times then fill in their details. Takes a few seconds, then you don't have to remember the real name for it ever again

@Anonymous What are you looking to achieve with this particular hotkey replacement? I'm asking this as Cmd + W is used in most apps to close a window, so is reserved for macOS.

@Steph For context on what File Filters are: They allow you to specify What search scope you want: Do you want to search exclusively your "Work" folder, or your "Movies" and nothing else? What file types you want: Are you specifically searching for images (e.g. png, gif, jpg, tiff files can all be dragged in to add all of those types) or folders only? What metadata do you want to search: Are you searching file names, content (where possible), tags, Finder comments, etc... You can then sort by creation date, last modified date, or let Alfred's knowledge return the most relevant results. You can limit it to documents from the past 30 days, 7 days and so on. This gives you much more control over what results you want to see for this. For example, I have file filters that return only folders within my work documents, allowing me to quickly find the folder I want without the clutter of all the documents contained within that would match the keyword. The Simple Folder Search workflow is a good (very simple) example workflow for this: https://alfred.app/workflows/alfredapp/simple-folder-search/

@Steph Welcome to the forum There are a few reasons Alfred may not be finding files on your external drive. First, macOS needs to be indexing the external drive as Alfred uses the same underlying index to find files; Can Spotlight find the files on the external drive (not Finder, but the Spotlight search bar)? If not, you'll need to look online to establish how to index the drive. You can drag a file from your external drive to the File Troubleshooter to see if there is any metadata index for it: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/indexing/ Next, if Spotlight can see the files, you'll need to do one of the following: 1. Create a File Filter workflow to specifically find files on the external drive. This is the recommended option, as it's more efficient, but requires the Powerpack 2. Add your external volume to your search scope in Alfred's Features > Default Results preferences. This is possible without the Powerpack, but you may find that it sometimes takes a moment before results are returned if the external drive has to wake up first. Cheers, Vero

@Christastic Welcome to the forum Taking a look at Act-On to see how they did it, I can see the following message dating back from a couple of years ago, at which point they stopped selling MailSuite: "Sonoma will be released later this fall without support for Mail plugins. Apple has permanently disabled the ability to load any Mail plugin in macOS 14." As such, a lot of the functionality they had is no longer possible with Apple locking down Mail. Someone might have some clever ideas, but I just wanted to set expectations that actually replicating Act-On is unlikely to be possible in modern versions of macOS.

@Robby In fact, the official System Settings workflow can be used in Alfred 4. As macOS evolves with every major version, some of the system settings also move around. The link below is the Sonoma-specific version of the workflow, which points to the location of system settings relevant to that version of macOS: https://github.com/alfredapp/system-settings-workflow/releases/tag/2024.1 Download the System.Settings.alfredworkflow file, and double-click it to import it into Alfred 4.

@Robby Welcome to the forum Please note that the workflows linked to were created for Alfred 5, and you've said you're using Alfred 4. Is there a particular reason you're using older builds for both macOS Sonoma and Alfred 4? Alfred 4's final build is 4.8, and Sonoma is now up to 14.6.1. Having said that, we recommend Alfred 5 on macOS Sonoma; You can upgrade at a discount here to take advantage of the latest Alfred features, as well as the most up-to-date support for macOS: https://www.alfredapp.com/shop/upgrade/

@Mark Tarantula Welcome to the forum. Could you please share the workflow you've created to do this? You can put it on Dropbox, iCloud or any other file hosting service and share a link here so that I can take a look at how you've set it up. Could you also provide your Diagnostics file, which you can get by typing "?diagnostics" into Alfred? You can then email it to our info@ address so that I can take a look Cheers, Vero

@Elena Welcome to the forum Not every website has an OpenSearch and SearchAction configured, and it looks like Amazon doesn't. Could you tell me what you're looking for specifically with an Amazon custom search? If you're based in the UK or looking to use .co.uk results for Google and Amazon, you can go to Alfred's General preferences and choose United Kingdom as your location. If you still want to create a custom search, it looks like the Amazon.co.uk search format is as follows: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k={query} Let me know how you get on

@glawrie No worries at all - it's likely that macOS has forgotten the permissions you had granted previously even though they appear correct in the System Settings. You can re-grant the preferences by following these steps: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/getting-started/permissions/#regrant Let me know how you get on

@tomguarriello That's great - thanks! I've had a look and everything looks in order. Can you confirm that pasting text from the clipboard works as expected in TextEdit or any other app? Please ensure that you are not running SnagIt at the same time as it may be interfering with Alfred being able to copy to clipboard. Provided text works fine, the next thing to check is whether you're copying a file or an image. Check in Alfred, a file shows a File: prefix, and an image shows an... Image: prefix Sorry, obvious I know! I don't use Ulysses but tested images in Keynote and images paste normally, so if you're definitely using an image and it's not pasting, could you record a screen capture so that I can see what steps you're taking?