aaronsurrain

It does give you the feedback, but what's the point in kicking off the reindexing of one folder when the whole system is already being indexed?
Even if the indexing process is silently killed for whatever reason, OS X will immediately restart it.
 

Yeah, there's definitely some room for improvement there, imo. If you haven't trained Alfred to prefer a different result, exact matches really should be the top results.
 

Alfred's history is stored in memory. It gets reset every time you restart Alfred.
 
Alfred's knowledge contains data from the Spotlight index. If you rebuild the index, that also invalidates other data based on it. Resetting the index but not Alfred's related data could cause more issues.
 
That said, if you just want to rebuild the index and not nix Alfred's data, use Spotlight's Privacy pane as described above. If you're comfortable using a shell, it's easier to do with mdutil.
Regarding the index itself, as I said in my first post, that has nothing to do with Alfred. If there's something wrong with the indexing, that's an issue to take up with Apple.

Yeah, these kinds of issues (data on disk out of sync with Alfred's results) are often due to out-of-date metadata in the index.
 
For future reference, you can re-index individual folders by dragging them to Spotlight's Privacy pane and then removing them again. It's often worth giving that a try before rebuilding the entire index because it's a hell of a lot faster.

Alfred doesn't have an index. It uses OS X's own metadata index (i.e. Spotlight).
 
This, however, may indeed be a bug with Alfred. Filepaths are case-insensitive (by default) on OS X, so Dropbox and DropBox are the same as far as the filesystem and most APIs are concerned.
 
If Alfred is treating them differently, that's quite likely a bug.

My Dropbox folder, now Dropbox, used to be DropBox (note the "B"). When I search files in that folder they appear. The ones that appear with the old capitalization scheme (DropBox) take me to the parent directory of Dropbox--not the file I searched. Unexpectedly, searching the same thing and selecting the same result a second time will take me to the correct place. Alfred doesn't learn from this. A later search will cause the same problem.
 
What is the least destructive way to correct the path in Alfred's index?
 
Thanks,
Aaron
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