tmykkanen

On 10/6/2016 at 2:48 PM, hey_fletch said:

So, I deleted my Alfred 2 as I thought it was redundant to my Alfred 3. Now, my QuickTask doesn't work. When I try to reset my akey, I get the following message in the debug console:

 

Starting debug for 'Asana QuickTask'

[2016-10-06 12:36:21][ERROR: action.script] mkdir: /Users/joe/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-2/Workflow Data: No such file or directory

mkdir: /Users/joe/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Workflow Data: No such file or directory

wflanaganiii mentioned symlinking to fix this, but I'm not sure what or how to symlink what to what. Any help?

For anyone with a similar problem, getting this to work with Alfred 3 requires editing workflows.php.

Right-click on Asana QuickTask in your workflows and select "Open in Finder".

Open the workflows.php file with text editor and replace the Alfred-2 and Alfred 2 with Alfred-3 and Alfred 3 respectively. It will work after doing this.

I've had a play with this by replicating your file name, and I can see that Spotlight stops presenting the file as well when it's a certain character length. Removing a few characters brings it back.

 

I've passed this on to Andrew, so that he can look at working around this Spotlight issue in a future update, as the file is still indexed by OS X behind the scenes.

 

In the meantime, you can either search for the file's enclosing folder, shorten the file name or, if you open the same file every time, create a keyword-to-open-file workflow

 

Cheers,

Vero

Thank you for responding Vero! Good to know it's not just something weird on my system.

I discovered something else while playing around with it last night: if I replace the dashes with spaces, the file is discoverable by each word. Strange behavior, but I thought it might be helpful in diagnosing the problem.

-Tyler

Hello,

I'm having trouble getting Alfred to find lengthy filenames. I'm wondering if this is a limitation of OS X or Alfred or if I am doing something incorrect?

The filename looks like this (the # are actually letters, but I removed the name for this post):

201603312135-wog-church-planter-assessment-report-####-###########.pdf

Alfred will find the file as is if I search by 201603312135 for example, but will not find the file if I search for wog

Alfred will find the file searching wog if I first remove a couple of letters from the end of the filename. If I add the letters back, Alfred is again unable to find the file.

I can find the file using Finder search and searching with a Name contains wog search.

Any ideas on why Alfred may be behaving this way?

Thanks for the help!