jdfwarrior

Could you try temporarily creating a new user account and seeing if you have the same issues with Alfred there? If you can't set the hotkey back to double cmd, that's typically an indication that something else is clashing with that hotkey. That could explain the behavior. Is there anything else you have installed that could be using that same hotkey?

What browser are you referring to? It's certainly possible to search bookmarks. A file filter can do it for Safari. There are workflows for search Chrome bookmarks. I'm not saying they don't exist but I'm not aware of any that allow the method you are requesting though (searching by folder).

I'm not sure what Andrew's plans are in this area but, the 'clear on restart' could be accomplished with a script. You could create a bash script that runs at startup or on an interval using a cron/launchd script to clear the clipboard database.

Alfred doesn't normally monitor such things. There are several applications that do provide this type of functionality though. With those, you could set them up to run workflows open state change using applescript to trigger Alfred's external triggers.

There are several things that could be causing this. First, have you tried walking through the steps located here? The steps tend to solve most similar issues. If this doesn't solve the issue, report back and let us know and we'll try to figure out where things are going wrong

What you are describing is known as a fallback search. This occurs when the search term that you provided doesnt match anything within Alfred's current search scope. By default, when you search within Alfred (no command provided), Alfred performs a search for the default items selected in Alfred Preferences, in the Features tab under Default Results. The 'find' command performs a more broad file search. As mentioned, when the search term that you provided isn't found in whatever the current scope is, Alfred will default back to whatever fallback search you have specified.

I'm not sure what Code 1 is but if the workflow is something that you could share, I could have a look at it and see what the issue is

If you haven't already attempted Shawn's suggestion.. Download a workflow here. I didn't know what you wanted to name this or what you wanted the keyword to be so I just picked something. Try this out and let me know what you think. We can work on the details later.

Have you tried all the steps mentioned here? If so, could you download the metadata tool and drop one of the files that can't be found onto it and share the output with us please?

Alfred wouldn't find the server because it wouldn't be within his search scope. You could still copy files there but you would have to start from the root. When you connect to a server, the remote path is mounted in /Volumes. So you could select Copy To, then just start typing a path.. /Volumes/<mount>/rest/of/path

This would usually be done with a proxy. A hosts file COULD do it but.. editing it would require admin permissions unless you modified its permissions but, that's not something I'd recommend

This can be done but you can't currently link directly to a url for the image icons. You would need to download the images and then set the path accordingly in the xml

I could probably help you with this. If you'd like, send me the file of the urls and I'll put together a workflow for you to be able to search them and display the results. You can send it david at alfredapp com

You could do this would a workflow that executes the following AppleScript tell application "Mail" activate set theMessage to make new outgoing message tell theMessage make new to recipient with properties {address:"<your email address>"} end tell end tell

Alfred uses Spotlight's metadata server to perform searches. That being the case, if there are files/folders that you wish to have excluded from search you can drop them into the Privacy tab of Spotlights settings. You may need to follow this up by popping up Alfred and typing 'reload' and pressing Enter. This will clear Alfred's cache. As far as a workflow to automatically update them when the files are saved.. Are you just wanting to use a command to copy the files to a specific location? Or are you wanting it to actually monitor the files for changes? Alfred doesn't do the latter. You could use something like Hazel to do something like that. If you want to enter a command to perform some commands, Alfred could easily do this.

There isn't but you could make a simple workflow that would perform that same actions. iTunes has two actions available in it's AppleScript dictionary that would probably perform what you are looking for. They are "fast forward" and "rewind". These commands tell iTunes to skip forward or backward in the currently playing track

There isn't, they are located in multiple areas of the preferences and organized by the function that they pertain to. These can be located in the Features section of the preferences. I do believe that someone had an Alfred "cheatsheet" that they created at some point that showed this information though.

It is by design. In Alfred, in the typical file search/navigation you, you have context. You have performed a search or navigated into a folder or selected a folder to perform an action on. You have something that you've done. From the File Selection key, that selected file is your only context. There is no previous step that you were at for you to go back to if you press Esc. I guess it COULD be argued that you could make it fall back to the parent folder but that may not always be the desired case. A workflow could be created fairly easily (just a hotkey) that would just select the currently selected Finder file in Alfred. Then you could press right arrow for actions, or press Esc to go back. From there you could press Cmd+Up to navigate back up the file structure.

The down side of trying to script something like this is its not very secure. In these cases, you would typically have your password stored in a text file or some kind of configuration file and it would be stored in plain text.

This currently isn't available but this could easily be accomplished if you have 1Password Mini running. I believe it's default hotkey is Cmd+Opt+\ which is inconvenient because it conflicts with a hotkey for Alfred but I set it to Cmd+Opt+] This will allow you to search your 1Password data, copy the password, open it in 1Password and so on.

Things like this CAN be done but are sometimes a little weird. If the URL/page isn't already loaded, Alfred doesn't know when the page load has completed so you would have to do that in code. I'm not sure if Safari has a way to check the loading status of a page. I think Chrome can. If you call the workflow with the page already loaded, then you could do some Applescript to enter the data, simulate pressing tab (assumingly to skip to the next field) and then enter the rest. This just requires a little scripting using AppleScript.

This was an old thread. Workflows can take advantage of portions of other workflows by using external triggers within Alfred.

Alfred isn't really designed to do this. Alfred can match files and folders in this manner but for workflows, Alfred matches their keyword alone. You could create multiple keywords if you wanted that all link to the single script if you wanted to match another word though.

Try just modifying the explode() command to look like this... $files = explode("\t",$files); That will split the input into parts using a tab as a separator instead of a space.

How are you wanting to trigger this? A keyword? A hotkey? Different methods have different ways of setting this up. a) Hotkey - You would simply setup a workflow that had your script in a "Run Script" object and change where you set the path to myfile to be: set myfile to "file://{query}" You would need to make sure that the hotkey trigger was set to pass the current osx select to the next step and connect the hotkey to the run script. Keyword - Similar to above except you would use the keyword to run your applescript and use the applescript to grab the currently selected object within finder. c) Result Action - This is when you select a file within Alfred and then press the right arrow to get a list of actions to perform on the file. Here you would add a Result Action item into the workflow, name it and connect it to the Run Script as well. The file path would be passed to the Run Script the same as the other methods. Does that help?