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@NickSloan It completely depends on where MailMate stores files and whether shares its data in the same way. Here is an old copy of my Mail.app workflow - which is for information purposes only, as it no longer works on current versions of macOS: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5h3djhw2thf8xjp/Mail.app Search 3.0.alfredworkflow?dl=0 You can take a look at the three File Filters and experiment in replacing the search scope, as a starting point. Another tip is to drag an email file into the File Troubleshooter (in Alfred's prefs > Help > Troubleshooting > Run Troubleshooting...) which will allow you to see the metadata available for individual email files. Hope this helps!

@NickSloan You could connect a keyword with no argument, or a hotkey to a Show Alfred utility with the Volume pre-filled in?

@albertkinng Can you clarify which version of Alfred you're using on that Mac? On OS X Yosemite, Alfred 3 would be the appropriate version of Alfred to use in order for features to work as expected. Keep in mind that Alfred 5 workflows aren't backwards compatible to older versions of Alfred. When saying Alfred isn't letting you access preferences, do you mean that 1. you can't open the preferences window? or 2. your previously customised preferences aren't loaded when you use Alfred? If you can provide more details, we'll see whether the issue you're seeing can be resolved

@frapaul83 Could you confirm whether your issue specifically occurs when searching for Google Drive documents, or are you having issues finding files on your Mac generally? If that's the case, you may be encountering a fairly well known issue with the macOS Migration Assistant. Could you please open Alfred's preferences to Features > Default Results and, in the bottom right of the search scope, click "Reset..." and choose "Reset to full disk" Once you've done this, try searching for your files. Are they found? The more information you can provide on your particular setup, how long since you've set up your Mac and migrated your files in, whether you followed both steps 5 and 6 in the Indexing Troubleshooting page, the easier it will be for us to help you work out why some content isn't found on your Mac.

@rebdeg Well spotted! We'll take a look at this to see what can be done. As a workaround, add another character to your affix, save it, then go back in and you'll be able to delete both the character and the space to clear the affix.

@NickSloan Different apps store their mail data in different locations, so the workflow won't automatically be adaptable. However, a quick look online shows that MailMate does have the option to be searched by Spotlight, which is promising: https://lists.freron.com/mailmate/2020-April/012477.html Might be worth dropping the MailMate folks if you're not sure how to do this - Once you know the location of the email data, if MailMate makes enough data seearchable, it should then be possible to create a search workflow for it.

@tomXXX Welcome to the forum. This issue happens when the app you're pasting to is slower than expected. You can slow down Alfred's key events so that he waits a little bit before pasting the snippet. To do this, set the Simulated key event speed to the left, then speed it up until you find it works in Chrome: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/snippets/#partial Let me know how you get on

@cheom Welcome to the forum Could you please provide some more details? Are the tracks you're trying to play local tracks, tracks you've downloaded from Music/iTunes or cloud-only albums/tracks? You're referring to a "data crash", what do you mean by this? If you do have crash logs, these would be available in Console.app - Please email those to our info@ address with a link to this thread so that I know what they refer to, and I'll take a look. Have you checked that the Music app is playing normally when you download an album to your Mac and play it directly from Music? Sometimes, there are prompts / notices from Apple that may appear, and need to be clicked or agreed to before Music can start working normally. I'm leaving aside the mention of the Spotify Mini Player, as this music is accessed in a completely different way, so these two issues won't be related. If you need help with the Spotify workflow, please first ensure you've checked for Alfred updates, and are using the latest version of the workflow, post your troubleshooting details in the relevant thread here: Cheers, Vero

@mijo Welcome to the forum! Could you please share both your csv and the workflow you've created so that we can take a look at what you've done so far and help you further? You can put those files on Dropbox or a similar hosting service of your choice and include links in your reply.

@littleknown What you're looking for here is the Fallback searches https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/default-results/fallback-searches/ As a Powerpack user, you can customise these to use the custom searches or workflows you prefer as fallbacks.

@jesused With the Single User license, you can activate on two Macs concurrently, provided these Macs are for your own use and not shared workstations. This license is valid for the current version (i.e. version 5 currently) With the Mega Supporter license, you can activate on up to four Macs, again provided they're solely for your use. This license gives you free future updates (i.e. Alfred 5 right now, and Alfred 6 onwards into the future). Anyone who has an Alfred 4 or older Mega Supporter license received a free upgrade to Alfred 5. Hope this helps! Cheers, Vero

@SCalkins This is almost certainly a consequence of the way Chrome handles window management. If you try this using a native Mac app, e.g. TextEdit or Safari, do you see the normal, predictable behaviour?

@rpornmon Thanks for sending your Diagnostics file across. I can see that you've specifically checked images to be excluded from results in Features > File Search > Don't Show. If you uncheck images from the exclusion list, they'll be included in your results when using the "open" keyword / spacebar trick.

@NickSloan Welcome to the forum! Alfred's clipboard is plain text by design, which keeps him incredibly lightweight and efficient on your Mac. When pasting from Alfred, the text you're pasting will respect the formatting of the destination text. Note that if you use copy/paste directly in macOS without going via Alfred's Clipboard, the formatting will be retained. When it comes to snippets, you can create RTF snippets, so if the item you want to paste with formatting is one you frequently need, you can create it as a snippet instead.

For those who are keen to participate in answering a few questions, here they are! Each blog post will consist of multiple users' answers to one question, so please answer each question separately Feel free to skip any that don't inspire you. 1. Tell me about yourself in three sentences (I'll use this to introduce you; If you include links to your site or social media, keep them in plain text) 2. What workflow helps you the most? 3. What Alfred features do you use as part of your hobbies or personal interests? (Feel free to contextualise and share what these hobbies are) 4. What's a workflow you've built for yourself that you use all the time, but is very specific to you? 5. What's the most fun or goofiest thing you've used Alfred for? 6. What's the first feature you share with a new Mac owner? 7. Are there features you think you've yet to take full advantage of? If you'd like, you can share a photo of you with your pet, your work environment, something that might be relevant. These may or may not be included. Thanks for being part of the unbelievably awesome community! Cheers, Vero

Could you clarify how you took the screenshot? If it's the menu bar, it seems to have more blue above what would be the very top of the screen, so was this taken in a virtual machine install or on a non-standard Mac configuration? Any context you can provide would be helpful if you have a custom setup of any kind.

@rpornmon Could you please provide your Diagnostics file, which you can get by typing "?diagnostics" into Alfred? You can then email them to our info@ address and include a reference back to this thread. Please also include the File Troubleshooter output for a couple of files you're unable to return in the results.

@hawk59 Could you please let me know where your screenshot of the bowler hat with the warning triangle is from? Also, next time this happens, could you please launch Activity Monitor, select Alfred and do a Sample Process? This will give us more info as to what's happening while it's not responding.

@Christian R. S. Welcome to the forum Your preferences should still be in your iCloud folder, as Alfred only copies them to a new location. Take a copy of your Alfred.alfredpreferences from iCloud and put it somewhere safe and locally-stored, then in Alfred's sync folder, go select that version of your preferences. Can you see your snippets there? Keep in mind that if you're using your preferences on a new Mac, you'll need to activate your Powerpack by entering your license details in the Powerpack tab before you'll see your snippets, even if you're using the correct set of preferences. Let me know how you get on.

@rpornmon Could you please take the following steps? Ensure you're using Alfred 5.1.2 In Alfred's Features > Default Results preferences, click "Reset..." in the bottom right of the Search Scope and set it to "Reset to Full Disk" Search for an image with the spacebar prefix and ensure that you scroll down if there are more results than the number visible. Can you now see your images? Please give as much details as possible so that we can help you further

@Sabry For one of the contacts that doesn't open properly in the DC workflow, follow these steps: Find it using the workflow Use the right arrow (or your set shortcut) to show Universal Actions Choose "Reveal in Finder" Once it opens in Finder, take a look: What is the path for the contact card file? It's likely that the ones that do not open correctly in Contacts are old metadata stored in other locations, where they do not have a valid match in the Contacts address book.

@SimoneUe Welcome to the forum The first things to look at are: Have you added any new plugins to Firefox recently? Do you see a red secure input notice in Alfred's Snippets prefs when Firefox doesn't allow expansion? If you restart your Mac, what behaviour do you see? It'll be caused by something in Firefox or the plugins you're using with it, and the secure input message may help you narrow it down. Your best bet is to disable or uninstall all plugins and go from there, re-enabling and using them one by one.

To confirm, old contacts all open incorrectly, but a newly created contact opens correctly?

Could you also answer the above - does it happen with every contact, or do some contacts open the correct one? When using the Deep Contacts workflow, arrow down to a result, then use Alt + Return to reveal the contact card in Finder. Where is the contact card located for one that doesn't open correctly?

@Sabry Could you please clarify the behaviour you're seeing here? When you choose a contact to open via the workflow, the macOS Contacts app opens instead 1. with the correct contact, or 2. with a different contact card being selected? Does this happen with all/any contacts or only a specific one / a few? I'm wondering whether some of the contacts metadata may be corrupted and therefore not opening the correct contact card.