jordic

Thanks! Great workflow I use a lot. Great to show off Alfred too :-)

Only the very first version of the workflow used a cache. If you're still using the initial version you should get the later one off of Packal. If you're already using the latest version then you can go into the workflow directory and run './menudump --yaml -- pid <n>' from the command-line to see what the script thinks the menu structure is for a given app. You get the pid number from the ps command, e.g., 'ps -ef'.

Thanks. Now I understand why I couldn't find anything related to caching in the code :-)

I use menu search all the time in Apple mail to move email to local email boxes. Since yesterday it's acting up. But only in Apple Mail.

I want to reset or remove the cache to see if that helps. Where can I find this cache on the filesystem? Any help is appreciated!

Your script creates a command file in the workflow folder. The issue on my machine is that my shell can't execute that file using ./command. I've changed the script so it creates the command file in /tmp. That did the trick. 

I've just installed a newly downloaded copy. That didn't help. I'll add debugging to the workflow scripts to hopefully see what happens. 

 

One of the biggest challenges to make this workflow and its “sibling” work is that Alfred does not read your PATH and other things that your terminal does when starting. Different users also have different shells and configurations, which makes it harder to set this up in a way that works for everybody. This last update addresses those issues, in some form.

 

Can you please tell me what is your default shell (bash, zsh, other), where it’s located (are you using /usr/bin/zsh/, or /usr/local/bin/zsh, for example), what command you’re trying to run that fails, and how did you install it (is it a system command, or did you get it from homebrew or some other means)? Basically, the more details, the better.

I'm running Mavericks, latest DP (legit I'd like to add). 

Shell:

/bin/bash (out-of-the-box)

Great workflow. Would be very useful to me. But unfortunately I can't seem to get this to work on OSX Mavericks. Anything idea?

FYI guys, robhor's Repo Workflow is working beautifully. I would recommend using that and let Tom concentrate on the backend.

I started using robhor's Repo Workflow right when it was made available, but I think that workflows posted on the repository should work for everyone. If not, they should be removed. I'm happy to help debugging and see if we can sort out why it's not working, but we need tomhunt's help for that. In any case; I really appreciate both robhor's and tomhunts hard work :-)

AlfPT stopped working they day before yesterday. The following message shows up in Console.app:

30-01-13 16:51:55,397 Alfred 2[19164]: [ERROR] Script XML Parse Error occured Error Domain=NSXMLParserErrorDomain Code=4 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 4.)"

Any idea what's happening or how I can debug this? 

It's working great. Very useful indeed!

The link is not working anymore.

Great workflow! Two suggestions:

1. Would it be an idea to differentiate between files and folders?
2. Could you filter out the Icon? file?. It shows up if you've set a custom icon for the Downloads folder?

One final remark: currently delete does not work for folder items.  

AlfPT stopped working for me too. It was working up until 2 hours ago, but now it's stuck updating the icon cache.. I've tried to reinstall the workflow but that didn't help.

Thanks for the suggestions Florian. I've reworked the workflow. It now handles existing comments and leaves them intact. I'm not keeping a list of ignored files. I use mdfind to dynamically construct the list. I've change the keyword to a default keyword ignore not to confuse people.

Download: http://cl.ly/032U2J2l2f0z

Last version for the day; removed the dependency on jdwarriors code and the ignorelist now shows the proper file icons.

Download: http://cl.ly/0y221I1y341J

I've uploaded a new version of the workflow. It adds two new functions using modifier keys:

• cmd-key: reveal the file on ignore list in Finder
• alt-key: open Finder Info window for the file on the ignore list 

regards.

Download: http://cl.ly/1i1o0z13021T

Hi, 

I've created a simple workflow to manage my 'alfred ignore list'. It reuses some PHP code from jdwarrior. I hope that's not a problem :-)

The workflow contains a file action to add the alfred:ignore comment to a file. This will make Alfredapp ignore the file and not show it as a search result anymore. Type 'ignorelist' to display a list of all currently ignored files. Selecting a file will remove all spotlight comments (beware!) and will make Alfred list it in the search results again. 

I hope it's of use to anyone else. It helps me to get rid off all the annoying and useless apps showing up in my results. Again, it blatantly removes all spotlight comments right now and I've not tested it thoroughly yet, but I'll try to fix any issues asap.

You probably need to reload Alfred's cache after using this workflow: just type 'reload' and select 'Reload Alfred Cache'.

PS: Any way to do that programmatically?

Download: http://cl.ly/3P092T38282j

regards, J.