rogierl

Please add edge support for indexing.

I'm having a similar problem with Googe Drive stream. My Google drive contains the folowing files:

-r--------   0 rlommers  LOCAL\Domain Users   370K Jan  1  1970 .VolumeIcon.icns
drwx------   5 rlommers  LOCAL\Domain Users   4.0K Apr 26 14:06 .Spotlight-V100/
d-wx------   3 rlommers  LOCAL\Domain Users   4.0K May  1 10:06 .TemporaryItems/
drwx------   8 rlommers  LOCAL\Domain Users   4.0K Jun 26 17:51 Shared drives/
drwx------  14 rlommers  LOCAL\Domain Users   4.0K Jun 26 17:51 My Drive/
drwx------   3 rlommers  LOCAL\Domain Users   4.0K Jun 26 17:51 .Trashes/
drwx------   4 rlommers  LOCAL\Domain Users   4.0K Jun 26 17:51 ./
drwx------   3 rlommers  LOCAL\Domain Users   4.0K Jun 26 17:51 .fseventsd/
drwxr-xr-x+ 71 rlommers  LOCAL\Domain Users   2.2K Jun 27 07:11 ../

Now the problem is that evertything inside "My Drive" is being indexed perfectly and searchable through (latest) Alfred. Unfortunately all the files in the "Shared drives"-directory is NOT being indexed. I really don't get it. What could be the reason of this? It's "just" two directories right? why is the one being indexed and the other not? Even the "unintelligent" option doesn't fix this. For some reason Alfred (or spotlight?) doesn't know the "Shared drives" directory at all.

Sorry, it's the section "Full disk access". Indeed, when I allowed Alfred full-disk-access, then Safari bookmarks will end-up in the searches.

Where can find this section? I don't see the item "Application Data" inside "security & privacy" section (tab: privacy).

Thanks!

I'm using lots of markdown files and it would be great if I could:

• select a markdown file in finder
• trigger Alfred
• select "convert file to PDF"

And eventually end up with a converted markdown file to PDF on -for example- my desktop. Would something be possible? I have marked2 installed, but I don't think a marked2-export can be started form the console, right?

I just had this problem with Spotlight not finding (& Quicklook not displaying) my old WordPerfect files -- when I ran the terminal command to manually import a file

 

/usr/bin/mdimport -d1 filename

 

it was showing dyn.ah62d4rv4ge81s6de as the file type

 

I rebuilt Launch Services (I used MainMenu.app to do this but there's a terminal command to do the same) & after that the type shows as 'com.corel.wordperfect.doc' and Spotlight & Quicklook are back to working.

 

So maybe rebuilding Launch Services will restore the correct net.daringfireball.markdown file type.

This fixed it! So I did:

1. Removed entry from user defined file types in Alfred
2. Rebuild launch services with command below
3. Add a markdown file (with extension .md)

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain user

Thanks!!!

There i an odd mismatch going on there, the file has type "dyn.ah62d4rv4ge8043a" which is essentially an arbitrarily created type by OS X when the file type is unknown... I'm not entirely sure why the file has this file type when it should have net.daringfileball.markdown, it could be corruption in OS X's metadata index.

 

if you manually add this type to the file types, then they should be found though

 

Cheers,

Andrew

Thanks for the info; what's the best way to create a new (empty) file on OSX?

Thanks; I already did that. Please see attached screenshot. I also ran the Alfred Metadata tool, and the outcome of a file with extension .md is:

Internal File Metadata
======================


 Display Name: Clean install OSX.md
    Alt Names: 
    File Type: dyn.ah62d4rv4ge8043a
     Comments: 
     Keywords: 
    Last Used: 


Raw mdls File Metadata
======================


_kMDItemOwnerUserID            = 501
kMDItemContentCreationDate     = 2016-06-30 19:49:29 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2016-06-30 19:49:29 +0000
kMDItemContentType             = "dyn.ah62d4rv4ge8043a"
kMDItemContentTypeTree         = (
    "dyn.ah62d4rv4ge8043a",
    "public.data",
    "public.item"
)
kMDItemDateAdded               = 2016-06-30 19:49:34 +0000
kMDItemDisplayName             = "Clean install OSX.md"
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate     = 2016-06-30 19:49:29 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate          = 2016-06-30 19:49:29 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode           = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags           = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon         = (null)
kMDItemFSInvisible             = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden     = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery          = (null)
kMDItemFSLabel                 = 0
kMDItemFSName                  = "Clean install OSX.md"
kMDItemFSNodeCount             = (null)
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID          = 20
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID           = 501
kMDItemFSSize                  = 906
kMDItemFSTypeCode              = ""
kMDItemKind                    = "Visual Studio Code document"
kMDItemLogicalSize             = 906
kMDItemPhysicalSize            = 4096

So what could be wrong? Indexes have already been re-build.

I have tried a lot, but for some reason I cannot use Alfred to search for markdown files on ONE OF MY computers. So on my Macbook, everything works find, but on my iMac Alfred does not find .md files (I also tried .markdown extension).

Can someone please point me in the right directory?

• Settings are the same on both Macs
• Spotlight settings are the same on both macs
• Have trie rebuilding index, also deleting .spotlight.v100 directory
• Still no results found on my iMac while searching for a file with markdown extension
• However, when I try to find the files with the Alfred "find" feature, everything works fine.

Help!