jdfwarrior

The little bubbles idea seems nice and may work for small, simple workflows but would quickly become a mess for more advanced workflows

I'm not sure on this one but as a place to start I would suggest looking at the plist for one that is known to work and then create a new blank workflow, add a hotkey, and check it to make sure that hotkey configuration is stored the same. I would think it is but.. with the recent changes to add scoped hotkeys, I'm not sure it they are or not. I can also ask Andrew if you'd like but, you could probably just find that out a lot quicker and easier.

I don't know how possible something like this would be. Also, in order for it to log in for you (if it were possible), your credentials would have to be stored in the workflow somewhere.. in plain text.. and that is something I wouldn't wanna touch with a pole. I think you may be better off trying to do something like... getting the url for the logout page and getting alfred to navigate you to there from the browser and then doing something like.. using Alfred's 1Password support to execute a login to the other account

I thought I had replied to this... I looked around at this for a minute and.. there isn't a really straight forward way of doing this because there isn't an easy way to, from applescript, get the current path of the terminal so that you can tell Alfred to go there. Now.. you COULD do something like.. with a keyword or hotkey, execute some applescript that would tell the current window in terminal to execute a command that would write the output of pwd to a file (in the workflow's area or somewhere else) and then follow that step in the workflow with a script that would read that file to grab the path, tell Alfred to search that, then delete the file (or not.. don't guess it would HAVE to)

Looking for something to just enable/disable wifi or what? Could you give me a little more detail on what exactly you're looking to do?

This is kind of a tough problem because you want it to show changelogs, but not all changelogs, you want it from a certain folder, but not all of them that could be in that folder. It's a very specific search. I dont know if you would be up for this or not but. if you're running Mavericks, tags might be a good way to solve this. You could apply a tag to the root level of the project and then have a changelog tag for the ones that you wanted to be able to find (if there were multiple). Then, you could use Alfred's tags keyword to search for the items that met all the tags specified. So, for instance, if you had a project called "my cool new project", and you had a changelog inside of there, you could add a 'mycoolproject' tag and a 'changelog' tag to that file and then pop up Alfred and search: "tags mycoolproject changelog" and that would show JUST that file. Obviously, as mentioned this requires you using tags but.. right now I think the only other thing that would get you really close is a custom workflow (maybe similar to some of the ones tyler mentioned, I don't know, I haven't tried those). I dont know if you use Hazel or not but Hazel would be an easy way to auto assign tags and such to files. I believe that there are also several workflows for assigning tags to files. That may speed things up a bit too when it comes to setting things up.

Try one more thing. Alfred returns results as fast as OSX returns them to him so there may be some metadata corruption. Typically, just a regular reindex will fix this but occasionally, a different reindex is required. This will trigger the deletion of the Spotlight directory and all index data and do a reindex. Try it and see if that clears things up. Here's how to do it.. Open a terminal window and enter the following: sudo rm -R /.Spotlight-V100 sudo mdutil -i on / sudo mdutil -E /

So you dont have this issue with any other java based applications? At first thought, I would imagine that it doesn't show up because it's not a .app but java application running through JRE. If other java applications show up though, that would kill my theory.

I mentioned in another thread that DrLulz posted in about this. What it boils down to is.. for the longest time, I've been paying for a subscription to weather underground so that you guys could use this workflow. You're welcome I had a lot of raindrops built up so I cancelled the subscription for a bit and noticed how quickly the daily limits are being hit. It's running over daily allotments within an hour after midnight. I'm wondering if someone else is using my API key without permission. I tried to go ahead and sign back up for the subscription so you guys could continue using it but now weatherunderground is being weird and giving me some weird error. I'll get it working again ASAP.

Looks like when you drop one it's just copying the file into the folder and naming it with a uuid to prevent a clash. This may be desired in some cases. To maintain the original icon name, Alfred would probably need to prompt to see if the user is sure that they want to overwrite. Obviously, I don't make the call on features, just throwing in my 2 cents on what's going on.

Select the item with the Tab key then press Spacebar to select (click) it

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You'd have to do some manipulating of the original Add Todoist Task.scpt file to incorporate this into Alfred natively. To integrate directly into Alfred you have to have JSON Helper installed first off. Next, you'd probably want to remove the Growl functions and the place in the add task area that calls the growl functions. Then you would need to replace the AppleScript input prompt with just setting the text value to q (passed in from the on_alfred_script function). I'm not sure how comfortable you are with scripting and AppleScript. I can help you if you'd like, or.. a way to make this a LOT easier it just to paste in your API key into the Add Todoist Task.scpt, comment out the one line that calls the growl functions, and just have Alfred launch that from Alfred from a Run Script. Now, this would use the AppleScript prompt to still ask for the new task text but it works easily. To do this, you'd just copy in all the scripts you downloaded into the workflow folder and then from a run script just do.. osascript "Add Todoist Task.scpt" As mentioned, I'm not sure how you want to set this up. This way works but if you want to not have the AppleScript prompt and want it integrated into Alfred a little more, let me know and I'll help ya out. Just to make sure I don't miss it though, if you want, you can email me directly about this at david@alfredapp

If other workflows are being affected, I'm not sure what the issue is. The weather workflow is something I'm trying to work through. For a while I was paying for a subscription to Weather Underground to get API access that supported enough traffic to hold up to the workflow. I was going to try and turn off the paid portion and see if it would survive but it's hitting max requests within the first hour every day. I'm wondering if someone else isn't using my API key without permission. I'm trying to figure out how to work around this.

Well, there are ways to do this but they are a little indirect. Unless you have the option ticked to sort actions by last used per file type then Open With should always be at the top. Alfred keeps them in a preset order so you should just be able to Cmd+Opt+\, enter, and type the name of the app.

Basically you're looking at editing some of Alfred's preferences to accomplish this. The file you are looking for would be: Alfred.alfredpreferences/preferences/features/websearch/prefs.plist Full path not included because I don't know where yours is. Default, its located in ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/ but if you sync, it could be elsewhere. Seeing as how you'll be editing Alfred's preferences though, I wouldn't recommend doing this as you could potentially end up corrupting your preferences somewhere along the way and breaking things or losing your preferences. Do this at your own risk.

Have you tried the File Selection hotkey? This will do EXACTLY what you are looking for. Select one or more files in Finder, press Cmd+Opt+\ to get actions for the selected files. Choose Open With and search for the desired app.

Are these results actual duplicates (showing the same path to the file)? If so, this may just be an indexing issue. Try reindexing and then clearing your app cache in Alfred and see if that resolves your issue. The option to reindex and clear cache are both available in the Advanced tab in Alfred's preferences.

Have you tried the workflow listed here?

You would need to be a Powerpack member and create a workflow to do such things. The default fallback search in Alfred performs the same as you going to a terminal and typing "open http://alfredapp.com". By that I mean, it hands it off to OS X and then OS X launches the default browser and opens the url or performs the search. With a workflow, you could create a new fallback search item for Alfred that would open based on what the current browser is.

Glad you were able to figure it out and thanks for sharing your results!

You should see this same result if you were to try and move an item from an internal drive to an external in OSX as well. This is the default behavior. You could however make a workflow that would do just as you mention.. copy to the external and delete the source.

There could be a setting or extension or something in Chrome that is preventing this as well. By searching Chrome in Alfred and selecting the application, that is the same as you going to a terminal and typing "open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app". You could try do that at a terminal and see if you get the same result.

Sorry but there isn't a trial available for the Powerpack. The link here can provide some info on the kind of things that the Powerpack brings to the table initially but things really open up when you start looking at workflows. There are tons of workflows that you can download and use now but there are also quite a few things you can do yourself, no scripting necessary. If you a proficient in any scripting/programming though, there's all kinds of things you COULD do with Alfred, including making your own custom script filters which allows you to provide actionable feedback items to Alfred from your script. It's kind of hard to sum up all the things that Alfred can do. If there's anything more specific you'd like to know or have questions about though, please ask and we'd be glad to help out.

I am unable to replicate this issue as well. As mentioned by Andrew, this more than likely wouldn't be an issue with Alfred, but a problem with Firefox. Is there any way that you could share the link that you attempted to open so that Tyler or myself could try it to see if we could reproduce the issue?