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  1. @Cellicello Glad to hear you're now able to find files on your local drive External drives can be different. I would recommend creating a File Filter workflow to specifically find files on the external drive. This means that the external drive's content won't be included in default results and won't slow down showing local results being returned by macOS. Here's how you can create a File Filter, but change the location to your external drive and (optionally) set which file types you want to search for: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/inputs/file-filter/#workflow
  2. @Cellicello This indicates that the macOS metadata index itself is broken and needs to be sorted before either Spotlight or Alfred can return results. Please follow step 6 here, and let us know if you get any error message in Terminal: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/indexing/
  3. @OmarKN The first thing that jumps at me is that your Automation Tasks are missing. Double-click that object and install or update the Automation Tasks. https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/automations/automation-task/#colours
  4. @jlc78 Could you please 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 at your configuration. Could you also share a screenshot of the Clipboard Viewer when you use option double tap? I realise this will be blank but just allows me to confirm we're all looking at the same view and same app
  5. @CuteCat I've merged your thread with the original workflow thread to make things easier. As of 2022, when @vitor had a look at this, it appears that the response Google gives the workflow has changed. This is quite normal as Google's services have most likely evolved over the past few years. It's not something I'm able to directly help with, but you may find that community members are keen/able to help investigate this further
  6. @jlc78 Removing and reinstalling Alfred is unlikely to have an impact on this. Could you be more specific about what does and doesn't work for you in the Clipboard? Are items added to the clipboard when you copy them? Can you Cmd + C from the Clipboard Viewer and paste with Cmd + V? If you open TextEdit (which is a simple and native app), choose an item in the Clipboard Viewer and press Return, do you see anything pasted? Do you hear an error beep? It most likely is a permissions issue, but answers to the above will help me guide you better Cheers, Vero
  7. @ctaberiv Tags have been a notoriously unreliable and half-baked feature in macOS over more than the past decade. As you've experienced, deleting and re-saving the same tag, while doing absolutely nothing different is sometimes all it takes for the tag to "stick" and be correctly saved/indexed by macOS. Alfred will return all relevant results for tags that macOS provide, but can't control how well macOS saves these tags.
  8. @Morriz Yes, this will be a macOS permissions issue. Moving a file and creating a new folder will result in new permissions being created, solving the issue. Can I confirm you're all sorted now?
  9. @Morriz Could you be more specific about what permission errors you're seeing? Are you referring to specific workflows or to Alfred in general?
  10. @pter29234 If you'd prefer to transfer your preferences instead of syncing (which also provides you with a backup), you can copy the preferences as follows: Navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred/ Copy the Alfred.alfredpreferences package to your new Mac in the same location You'll still need to activate your Powerpack license on the new Mac as this is set on a per-Mac basis Assuming you have a backup on the Mac where your preferences were overwritten, I can also guide you on recovering those preferences from the backup if needed, but the same instructions as above apply if you're taking them from your Time Machine backup. Could you also please email your Diagnostics file to our info@ email address? You can get this by typing "?diagnostics" into Alfred, and attaching the file to your email. Let me know how you get on.
  11. @maskot Welcome to the forum! Further to @vitor's response, a word of caution: The passwords copied from 1Password are excluded from your Clipboard History by design for your security. If you choose to allow your passwords into the plain text Clipboard History, you may want to manually remove them by selecting them in the Clipboard Viewer and using Fn + backspace to remove them from history when you're done. Alternatively, you can type "clear" and clear the last 5 or 15 minutes of clipboard content. Cheers, Vero
  12. @Alfredonna Over the past few versions of macOS, Apple have broken the System Settings / System Preferences which means that they're not always returned correctly in the indexed results. This is why we've released the workflows @Stephen_C provided links for, as this works around the missing macOS features. We're keeping an eye on whether Apple will resolve this issue or not, and will provide a built-in solution if necessary; In the meantime, the workflow remains the best way to reliably include System Settings in your search results.
  13. @ojoavizor At this stage, the best way to resolve these permissions issues on your Mac is with a clean slate by resetting Alfred's preferences. First, please back up your Alfred preferences somewhere safe for future use. Next, follow the steps here to reset Alfred to defaults: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/reset-alfred/ Once you've done this, make a few custom changes in Alfred and check whether these are being saved after a restart. If everything is working as expected, try setting up syncing again, and see what behaviour you get. One you've confirmed that you're able to use the preferences normally, you can copy your previous Alfred.alfredpreferences back in.
  14. @csonni Sounds like you're looking for the Universal Actions. You can configure this under Features > Universal Actions to use your preferred shortcut, and you'll find the documentation here: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/universal-actions/
  15. @fabeck01 Welcome to the forum When using a hotkey with Selection in macOS > Open File without specifying the app to open with, multiple files can be opened just fine (e.g. if I select a few PDFs and let them open by default in Preview). This leads me to wonder if your Secure File Deletion app, which I'm not familiar with, allows multiple files to be sent at once. If you select a few files on your Desktop, right-click and choose "Open with..." in the macOS menu, then choose the file deletion app, are they all processed at once?
  16. @jrk If you prefer to choose which browser to open with on the fly, you can press the right arrow to see File Actions, and choose "Open URL in..." and choose your preferred browser. Normally, URLs you type will open in your default browser, but when you want to open in an alternative, using the action above takes no prior setup.
  17. @Alfredonna Could you please let us know which version of macOS you're using?
  18. @kdu472 Apologies, I might not have been clear enough in what I'm asking you to test: - Open TextEdit - Expand your snippet there - Check what kind of space is in the TextEdit expanded version, without going into Excel or other apps The objective is to see what results you get in TextEdit without manipulation from Excel or any other apps.
  19. @kdu472 Welcome to the forum. Could you please test this in TextEdit? As a more native and basic app, it's a good way to establish whether the snippet is being manipulated by Excel / BBEdit. You mention Alfred 5 vs "previous versions" so could you clarify which version of Alfred you used before upgrading? And did you upgrade from an older version of macOS to Sonoma at the same time?
  20. @IRH Welcome to the forum The Simple Folder search might be useful for you, as it allows you to specifically search for folders: https://alfred.app/workflows/alfredapp/simple-folder-search/ Alternatively, if you want to pick a folder, then search for files within that folder specifically, you can use the Dynamic File Search: https://alfred.app/workflows/alfredapp/dynamic-file-search/ If you have something else in mind, let us know and we can help you customise a workflow! Cheers, Vero
  21. @ojoavizor Could you be more specific when you say it doesn't allow you to set it as a sync folder? If you go to Alfred's Advanced Preferences, click "Set preferences folder..." and navigate to your user directory, what is stopping you from setting that folder? As you say the issues reoccur when you start using Google Drive, can you please confirm your Google Drive is set to be offline? This is the main reason anyone has issues with sync services: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/advanced/sync/#always-offline
  22. @Gerry After adding it to Spotlight Privacy, type "reload" to clear Alfred's app cache. Did that help?
  23. @ojoavizor Are you using any third-party tools that manipulate files on your Mac? When you manually navigate to ~/Alfred/ can you see your Alfred.alfredpreferences package? I don't recall seeing this error for a local folder before, which leads me to believe there's something incorrectly configured on your Mac at a lower level (which can happen if you've migrated your whole Mac from a previous backup or via Migration Assistant. To get a sense if how broad this issue is, could you please temporarily create a new user account on your Mac, activate your Powerpack and set a sync location? Do you get any errors on that profile? If you do not, it indicates that the corruption is specific to your primary user account.
  24. @ojoavizor In both of these cases, the issue is with the sync service, so as a first step, let's exclude sync services from the troubleshooting temporarily. Please open Alfred's prefs to the Advanced preferences. Create a new folder and set your sync location to be ~/Alfred/ (that is to say, a folder called "Alfred" in your user directory, and not within a subfolder of it) With this new location, try changing and saving preferences. Do you see any error messages or are preferences saving as expected?
  25. @SHF Welcome to the forum! Did you perhaps set Cmd + A to be used for a workflow in Alfred? Or via a third-party app? If there's a conflict and an app or workflow is using Cmd + A, you may be overriding the default macOS action. You can check Alfred hotkeys by either typing "?hotkeys a" and scrolling through, or by opening the Workflows preferences, and choosing "Show hotkeys" from the top of the Workflows list. If you're unable to identify the source of the conflict, please provide your Diagnostics file, which you can get by typing "?diagnostics" into Alfred? You can then email it to our info@ address and I'll take a look (though do keep in mind, this will only show me your Alfred hotkeys, not anything set outside of Alfred). Cheers, Vero
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