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@macalcoholic Welcome to the forum. As per my response to you by email and starting with your first issue, the best place to start when you can't see certain files/folders in your results is the Indexing troubleshooting page, which covers all of the usual reasons why Alfred may not be returning the results you're looking for: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/indexing/ Often, step 4, rebuilding your Mac's metadata index, is the best way to resolve indexing issues, but please carefully follow all steps. If these steps don't resolve the issue for you, please provide details: - Where is the file located? Is this within the search scope as per the screenshot in #2 of the Indexing troubleshooting page? - Did the file appear when using the "open" keyword? - What are you typing into Alfred when searching? The more details you provided, the easier it is for me and the Alfred community to help you out Cheers, Vero

Hi @Colin - Are you on a restricted network (corporate network, coffee shop, etc), or using an app like Little Snitch that may be restricting your network access? This simply means that you're unable to access the CacheFly content delivery network, so trying a different internet connection should allow you to access CacheFly Cheers, Vero

@woowoo To be more precise, this is what Apple includes in the metadata keywords for the App Store: kMDItemKeywords = "Mac App Store, Software Update" Often when apps show up for characters you don't expect, you'll find in the metadata additional keywords added by the app's creator, either including old names or nicknames. Cheers, Vero

@willoneal Does this issue only arise with one contact or for multiple ones? If it's only one contact, I'd recommend deleting and re-creating the contact as it could be an issue with the data for that contact specifically. Cheers, Vero

Hi @Sathya and welcome to the forum. On Alfred's General Preferences tab, you can select "India" from the dropdown menu, which will take you to the local Amazon.in instead of .com More details here: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/general/ Cheers, Vero

@sots As well as providing the details @vitor mentioned, can you please check you're not using another text expander tool at the same time, or a keyboard modifier that might be interfering with Alfred?

@Erik E You may be able to map hotkeys in a VM, but text expansion isn't designed for this. It entirely depends on how your VM software handles shared clipboards, which is why I said your mileage may vary and that you'll need to experiment further. Provided the clipboard works across the VM, your best bet is likely to pop up the Clipboard Viewer on your local Mac, press Cmd + C to copy the snippet or clipboard item, then focus in your VM window and paste it manually. Cheers, Vero

@meites Welcome to the forum! If you're a Powerpack user (which is a requirement to use either of the workflows linked by @GuiB), please fill in your Powerpack email address in your forum profile. This is only visible to admins and allows us to confirm your registered email address If you're not a Powerpack user, including emails from Mail.app should be as simple as: Adding ~/Library/Mail/ to your search scope Unchecking "Emails" from the "Don't Show" list in Features > File Search You can then search using either the "open" keyword, or pressing the spacebar (which is the shortcut to "open"). This adds a fair amount of noisy results to your File Search, so it's preferable to use a File Filter workflow like this one to search your emails: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5h3djhw2thf8xjp/Mail.app Search 3.0.alfredworkflow?dl=0 It's worth noting that the workflow above assumes you're using Mail.app - you didn't mention which email client you're using so if you're using a different one, email data may not be stored in the same place. Cheers, Vero

@notverypc @vitor You can also click on the icon (aka the Shreddies square) next to the Cancel/Save buttons to open the workflow's folder, where you'll find scripts, icons, and other files that are part of the workflow. Cheers, Vero

Hi @notverypc There's a link to the .alfredworkflow file at the bottom of the page: https://github.com/frdmn/alfred-ldap/releases/download/0.1.6/alfred-ldap.alfredworkflow Once you've installed the workflow, you'll be able to edit it within Alfred's Workflows prefs. Cheers, Vero

@deanishe It's only recently that we've started hearing of more frequent issues with iCloud syncing. It may be that more users are trying to use iCloud in recent times, but it's also possible that iCloud is increasing its use of Optimised Storage behind the scenes, where files are stored in the cloud to free up storage locally: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207236 Alfred needs absolute live access to files, so if files are arbitrarily being removed because iCloud has decided they're not needed, it's inevitably going to cause issues. In short, yes, we'll be adding a notice in the next release, letting users know that these services aren't recommended, if they try to select them. Cheers, Vero

@Enkk Welcome to the forum You can easily deactivate a license on your Mac by showing the license details in the Powerpack tab and choosing "Deactivate". If you ever encounter any issues, you can simply drop us a line and we'll help you out. Cheers, Vero

Hi @woowoo - Welcome to the forum. As custom theming is a Powerpack-specific feature, please fill in your Powerpack email address in your forum profile. This is only visible to admins and allows us to confirm your registered email address. Cheers, Vero

@Erik E I recall you emailed us and mentioned you were using virtual machines. Is this happening on your standard Mac account or exclusively in the virtual machine? Your mileage may vary with VMs, as the way they interpret key events is very different to native apps. Cheers, Vero

@deanishe Just coming back to this to add something that might be beneficial to @Cody and others reading the thread too... If there's something in your clipboard you want to keep, press Cmd + S to save it as a snippet, give it a name and hit save; There's no need to set a trigger for *every* snippet you create. I've got a collection of non-expanding snippets just called "links and stuff" that are various links to posts, snips of code I need every so often, but have no intention of remembering a snippet trigger for. As of 3.6 (currently in pre-release), it's possible to switch the matching to include snippet content, so you'll need to set a name, but it doesn't need to be mind-blowingly complicated. Once you're in the Clipboard Viewer, type part of the snippet text and it'll appear in your results. With this option, there's less friction in storing a snippet (which also has the benefit of it being synced/backed up if syncing is enabled) without the risk of storing an infinitely ballooning clipboard history database. Cheers, Vero

@w.yaqoob Welcome to the forum. Please fill in your Powerpack email address in your forum profile. This is only visible to admins (Andrew and I) and allows us to confirm your Powerpack status. Cheers, Vero

@ACGarland Welcome to the forum. The Clipboard History is stored as plain text by default, so you can pop up your Clipboard Viewer (Cmd + Alt + C by default) and select the item you want to paste. Alternatively, if you know that you specifically want to paste the 2nd or 3rd item, you can use dynamic placeholders in the workflow mentioned in the earlier post: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/dynamic-placeholders/#clipboard If I've misunderstood what you're looking for, could you give an example of what you have in mind? Cheers, Vero

@nandorocker Welcome to the forum. Alfred never directly hijacks the clipboard in such a way, but this could be achieved with the Powerpack. Could you please fill in your Powerpack email address in your forum profile? This is only visible to admins (Andrew and I) and allows us to confirm your registered status. I've temporarily locked this thread, but once you've confirmed your details, we'll be happy to help you further Cheers, Vero

@mikedvzo In reply to your message on Andrew's forum profile, given that this is a GrowlNotify error, and we don't have any direct relationship with Growl, it may be worth seeing whether Growl still provides support and post on their forum/support channel. Cheers, Vero

@JvdL Take a look at Firefox's own preferences, as this behaviour is set by the app opening the URLs and not by Alfred. E.g. in Safari, it's in the Tabs preferences: Cheers, Vero

@JvdL As much as possible, avoid simulating keystrokes as this isn't a reliable way to perform actions. Wherever possible, your best bet is to use Alfred's built-in objects to do the majority of what you want, and use AppleScript or another appropriate solution where scripting is required and it can't be done using objects. Simulating keystrokes should be a last resort, as it can be really quirky.

Hi @JvdL and welcome to the forum There's a good built-in workflow you can use as example to teach you how to do what you describe; Open Alfred's preferences to the Workflows tab, and click the [+] button at the bottom of the sidebar. In Examples, choose "Should I watch this movie?" This workflow shows you how to use a keyword to launch three websites (YouTube, IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes). Now you can create your Blank Workflow to create your own in a similar way; Instead of a keyword, you'll start your workflow with a hotkey, and connect it to two "Open URL" objects. Set the URL for each site you listed above, and choose Firefox as the browser for each one. Let me know if you need any further help Cheers, Vero

@Entropyfails Welcome to the forum! Could you please fill in your Powerpack email address before joining workflow-related discussions? This is only visible to admins (Andrew and I) and allows us to confirm your Powerpack status. Cheers, Vero

@Dayjo Welcome to the forum. Please fill in your Powerpack email address in your forum profile before asking workflow-related questions. This email address is only visible to admins (Andrew and myself) and allows us to confirm your Powerpack status. Cheers, Vero

@speedisgood Could you please fill in a valid Powerpack email address in your forum profile? This is only visible to admins (Andrew and I) and allows us to confirm you're a Powerpack user (given you previously asked Powerpack specific questions) We'll then be happy to help you out with your question. Cheers, Vero