jdfwarrior

Or you could just make the url be the 2nd and 3rd column instead of just the second. Either way.

Could you by chance have ticked the option in the Copy To Clipboard item to auto paste in the frontmost app? If that is selected and you run the workflow and then no text area/field is focused, OS X is alert to notify you that it can't paste.

What hotkey are you attempting to use? Could you try temporarily creating a new user account to see if that resolves the issue?

The argument within the script filter is automatically passed on the to the next step within the workflow. So, in your sample code above, you would be sending the value of $tncty to the next step which seems to be incorrect. For the <item>'s arg value, use $ctyw. Then attach an Open URL action to the tail end of the Script Filter. If you want to verify the url is coming through correctly, attach a Large Text to the tail end so you can see what is being passed from the Script Filter to the next step.

Do you mind if I ask what hotkey you are attempting to set? Typically, the only time Alfred wouldn't allow you to set one when that hotkey is already in use. If you're attempting to set it to Cmd+Space, check out kb article here and see if it helps resolve your issue.

So you want it to search for any folder that contains that file? Is that correct?

Several things: 1. Is the new location indexed by Spotlight? 2. Can you search the folder from Spotlight? 3. Could the slow response be a result of the drive the other having spun down? 4. Have you reindexed? 5. Have you attempted removing Spotlight-V100 and reindexing? Details: http://guidovanoorschot.nl/how-to-fix-spotlight-when-it-keeps-indexing-n-mac-os-x-lion/

Did you know that you can drag items out fo the main Alfred window? For instance, what you're asking for... if the Open/Save dialog is open, find the item in Alfred, click and drag it off the Alfred window, drop it on the Open/Save dialog.

Alfred would consider this a system. That being said, he wouldn't normally show this file in a standard file search. If you copy the file path and paste that into Alfred, it should show that file in the results. I'm unaware of a workflow to search this but, to have Alfred search this, you would need a workflow that would read and parse this file and then allow you to search the contents.

The query above seemed to work perfect for me. Could this be an issue with Google Instant Search? Try going to google.com/preferences, select "Never Show Instant Results" and try the search again and see if it works.

It can be done with a workflow, certainly. Try this one out. It will make a copy of the file named filename-1.ext

The workflow developers do this out of a "best practice". It prevented the workflow developers from having to detect whether or not Dropbox was installed, and then, the end user may want some custom folder for syncing the settings. It could be kind of a pain on their end so it was just recommended to keep settings within a local folder. That's not to say it can't be done another way. Alfred's isn't dictating where the data is written, the workflow developers are.

I'm not sure I completely understand but it seems like you're wanting to get to previous queries so that you can modify them? If so, pop up Alfred and press the Up arrow. That should allow you to go through a list of previous queries

There isn't at this moment no. I believe there may be a workflow or two that attempts to bridge that gap through scripting but currently, when browsing through folders within Alfred's file navigation, you can only search by name.

Actually it may more mean just the opposite. If you can correctly set the hotkey within a new user account, that typically means that there is some other app or some configuration within your system that is preventing you from setting that hotkey. You still have the same applications available in the new account, but a new user account isn't configured the same way. Default settings within a new account allow for it, therefore, something within your current account is blocking Alfred.

I don't use Match anymore either however, unless something has changed within a recent iTunes update, this should work. I made adjustments to the iTunes script a while back to work with iTunes Match and I believe it worked with iTunes Radio as well. I would suggest trying Vero's recommendation of refreshing Alfred's cache.

I'm happy to help with any part of it. Which part specifically do you need assistance with?

Is the file you're using just a plain text file? It doesn't do anything fancy. It just reads the file, line by line, and opens a google search with the content from each line.

Why do you need to move it into ~/.alfred in the first place? Why not just initialize a repo where the preferences reside (~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2)? Most people never poke around with these folders anyway.

This one shouldnt be too complicated. What scripting/programming languages are you familiar with? 1. Adding the option the results actions is done with a workflow. You do this by adding a new Trigger->Result Action. 2. The file paths (full paths) are passed to the next step as a tab delimited list. So, you could add an Action->Run Script to your workflow and then, implementation is dependent upon the language you use, you would split the input using a tab as the delimiter. 3. Next, you would just need to build the string you desire with the filenames in the array. 4. Finally, you have an option of automatically making Alfred execute this command or copy it to the clipboard.

Try this: Download

Welcome to Alfred 1. Removal of keyword - Alfred doesn't provide functionality to just add Chrome as a source for searching. You do have a few options though. First, workflows has several ways that they can be triggered. Two of the most popular are keyword and hotkey. If you wanted to bypass the keyword, one option would be to add a different trigger, like a hotkey. This would allow you to just use another hotkey (aside from your primary for Alfred) to go directly into the workflow without having to use the keyword. For instance, if your primary hotkey were Cmd+Space, you could assign Opt+Space to trigger the workflow and then just type directly without having to enter the keyword. Since it seems like what you desire here isn't as much for a Chrome bookmark search but to visit a specific url, you could also create a hotkey to open that url directly. Perfect example, I use Opt+3 to open the link to the Alfred forums. 2. This is actually dependent on how the workflow is written. The workflow developer has the ability to assign an id to each result shown in the list or not. If the id is something that is the same for that bookmark every time it's shown, then Alfred would learn to prioritize it. If the developer did not assign an id to the results, then Alfred essentially sees it as a new result every time instead of it being the same one. Another option for this would be to simply make a Web Search for the url in question. If you go to Alfred's preferences, go to the Features tab, and then select Web Search, you can create a new web search that would allow you to just type 'versions' and have it open the desired url. If you need help with any of this, let us know and we'd be happy to help out.

Have you tried reindexing your Mac to see if that resolves the issue? Try that first and report back please and let us know if that resolves the issue

Would the following code not be sufficient? This will code will split the string base on a tab (alfred's delimiter) and create an array of the file names. It even works with file names that contain single quotes. query="~/Downloads/file1.txt ~/Downloads/file2.txt ~/Downloads/file3.txt" IFS=" " read -ra files <<< "$query" for file in ${files[@]}; do echo $file done

If you're using Apple's Mail.app you should be able to do this by using mail rules within it. You could setup rules that would look for keywords or phrases and then run an applescript that would execute the desired workflows.