Vero

@TnT Welcome to the forum!

Take a look at your Alfred preferences, click on the cog and check "Expand snippets mid-string". It's likely that you previously had that option checked, which allows a snippet to be typed mid-string, regardless of the characters typed beforehand.

Cheers,

Vero

@Jonathan There are two primary things that could be causing lag relating to Alfred:

1. Themes with window blur: It sounds like you've already taken a look at this, but do check that your theme is a low or no window blur theme by either using a default theme on Alfred 3.5, or setting the theme to no blur by clicking the circle in the top left of the Appearance canvas on custom themes.

2. Metadata indexing: If you've just upgraded to High Sierra, your Mac may still be in the process of indexing. If it's been a few days, you may benefit from reindexing, as lag can be the result of a corrupted or incomplete index. You can do this by going to Alfred's Advanced prefs and clicking on "Rebuild macOS metadata" - Be sure to check the box to "Delete /.Spotlight-V100" to make sure you're starting with a fresh new index

Oh and also, check your search scope in Features > Default Results to make sure you're not including external drives in your search scope. If slow drives are included in the default scope, they could lead to slow results.

Let me know how you get on. 

Cheers,
Vero

@WalterBeiter This issue's already been raised and resolved, if you take a look at the "lag" header in this post:

https://www.alfredapp.com/blog/tips-and-tricks/alfred-3-5-ready-for-high-sierra/

If you're using a custom theme, lower the window blur by clicking on the circle icon in the top left of the Appearance canvas in Alfred's preferences, or change to one of the default themes. 

[Moving this post to Closed]

Cheers,
Vero

@ldubov Welcome to the forum!

In addition to what @deanishe has already suggested, you can take a look at this page for more information on using variables to save multiple queries throughout your workflow, which includes a built-in example you can take a look at:

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/advanced/variables/

In particular, you'll find what you want in the "Setting Variables Within a Workflow" header.

Cheers,
Vero

Hi @SAJ Thanks for your post.

As I don't have access to these versions of Illustrator and InDesign, could you please provide some more details for me?

• When you type your snippet keyword, is the keyword deleted? If not, it means that Alfred is being blocked from seeing what you're typing - usually reserved for password fields - and can't know you want you've typed your snippet
• Does the snippet get replaced by the expected text sometimes, or never? Do you ever hear an error sound?
• If you open Alfred's preferences to Features > Snippets for at least a minute while either of these apps are in focus, do you see a Secure Input error message like this one in red in the prefs?

In the past, some users reported issues using Alfred's clipboard alongside an older version of Illustrator, and turning off "Include SVG Code" in the Illustrator prefs helped resolve the issue until Adobe fixed it globally, so do take a look at whether any preferences tweaking in Adobe apps might help.

Adobe apps are unfortunately known for behaving in a way that's different from native Mac apps, so this may be out of Alfred's control.  However, if you can provide answers to the questions above, it may be possible to work it out

Cheers,
Vero

@depressiveRobot The fix in 3.5.1 should be stopping the original issue described in this post so if you're using the latest build and are still having this issue, could you please provide more details? In which situations exactly do you see the issue, which theme are you using, etc?

You can also double-check you're running the right build by clicking on the bowler hat in the menu bar, where you'll see which version and build you're using

Cheers,
Vero

@vitor @xilopaint I'm going to move this to Closed now.

This is a good example of a case where Andrew and I both spent a lot of time today trying to reproduce the issue you reported, rather than work on an actual Alfred release and on support. You guys are experienced users, so things like checking for third-party tools interference is something I'd be grateful if you could do before putting in a bug report.

Cheers,
Vero

@2Pants I'm not familiar with Stringify, and it's not an app anyone has mentioned before, so a native integration is highly unlikely at this point, but this is what workflows are for!  Provided there's sufficient AppleScript, you can control it through your own workflows.

Cheers,
Vero

@playmakerx Any clipboard entry you use within that three months will be timestamped with a new date, and will stay a further three months.

If there are clips you'd like to keep even longer, your best bet is to save them as snippets.

Cheers,
Vero

@politicus Did you try dragging Airmail anyway into the Launch Apps/Files config to see whether it adds it? There may be a subtle difference between the two versions, meaning that they're not recognised as the exact same app.

@politicus On the Mac where it's not launching, if you drag Airmail to the Launch Apps/Files configuration, does it add a second instance of Airmail? If so, it's because they're different enough that they aren't seen as being the same app (due to name or location most likely)

Taking this a step further, if you do an mdls (https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/indexing/mdls/) on the file on both Macs, are they 1. in the exact same location and 2. named the same thing?

Cheers,
Vero

@2Pants Welcome to the forum

If Chrome your default browser? If so, the lowest-setup option is to copy your URL, pop up Alfred and paste the URL, and hit Enter. Alfred will launch your default browser with the URL.

Alternatively, you can create a simple hotkey-based workflow.

• Add a hotkey object and set the argument to either Clipboard Content or selection in macOS.
• Connect the hotkey object to an "Open URL" object, leaving the {query} in the URL field. Pick the browser you want it to open in, and save.  

This assumes you're copying a complete URL with http:// or https:// - If you're not, you can add that in front of the query for your Open URL object.

Cheers,
Vero

To add more details to @davidtesler's post, he reported that the keyword isn't deleted and the snippet isn't expanded, but that Alfred's Snippets preferences don't show the "Secure Input" error message which would indicate that secure input has been locked by 2Do or some third-party.

Would some kind soul who's also using 2Do please let us know whether 1. Snippets work for you in 2Do, and 2. if they don't, whether you're seeing any error messages reported in the preferences relating to secure input.

Cheers,

Vero

@sfcgeorge Welcome to the forum! kernel_task is a part of the macOS core, so is that showing as using up a lot of CPU?

Did you also take a look at the rest of the post you're linking to? As per the third header which relates to lag specifically, ensure that you're using a theme with low window blur, as some users are experiencing lag due to a High Sierra bug with window blur. 

Once you've changed theme to a low window blur one, let me know how you get on. 

Also, could you please add your Powerpack email address to your forum profile?

Cheers,
Vero

@gokubi Take a look in this path: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/

Is there a subfolder called "Default"? This should contain a file called "Bookmarks", which contains your formatted bookmarks.

Cheers,
Vero

@robstarbuck Welcome to the forum!

[Removed my first assumption that you may have been using a workflow that also uses the keyword "bm"] 

Looks like you've indeed spotted an error! The very original version of this feature during the pre-release was for Safari specifically, but we've decided to add Chrome as well, so we'll fix the wording of this in the next update

Cheers,
Vero

@dmick89 We've not heard of anyone having issues with workflows due to upgrading to High Sierra.

First, could you please specify which workflows and what's not working, as your post is vague? Secondly, your best bet is to look for the relevant thread to the workflows to make sure you have the most recent version of the workflow, and provide more details there so that the workflow's creators (and fellow users) can help you out.

Cheers,
Vero

@levelbest There are two ways Alfred gets these recent documents:

- When you open a file using Alfred

- When it's provided by OS X

With the second method, it relies on applications correctly providing and updating their recent documents file. Unfortunately, not all apps store this information in a way that can be accessed (namely, Microsoft Office apps like Excel and Word), and other apps don't necessarily update this information instantly. As you saw, Pages seems to update its list of recent documents when quitting the app, so Alfred is reliant on this.

If you open these files with Alfred, they'll then be listed in Alfred's Recent Documents as well.

Cheers,
Vero

@FlyingTruelle @Diegobit Thanks for your respective posts - This seems to be a High Sierra bug and only affects a small subset of Macs, with specific graphics cards, so we've been unable to replicate it with our own hardware here.

Could you please let me know exactly what Mac hardware you're both using?  

Cheers,
Vero

@gokubi Are you using the default Chrome profile or a secondary/renamed profile? As this is a brand new feature, Alfred looks for the Default profile in Chrome  

Cheers,

Vero

@WalterBeiter Click on the Airport.Search.alfredworkflow and it'll be downloaded. Then just double-click in Finder to pop up Alfred and see the import prompt

Cheers,
Vero

@PiKatso Welcome to the forum! Could you please fill in your Powerpack email address in your forum profile?

Thanks,

Vero

@SaSaSushi Thanks for the reply - we've had a message from CacheFly saying it should be resolved, so it's good to get your confirmation

Cheers,
Vero

@Kiwi Much appreciated, thanks! Passed this on to CacheFly as well.

@SaSaSushi Thanks - I've passed this on to CacheFly and will report on any progress on their part.

We welcome input from other users who are still seeing this issue, as the more information we can pass back to CacheFly, the better.

I'll update this thread with further info as well.

Cheers,
Vero