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@raguay.customct I get it now! This was VERY helpful. Thanks you for your detailed explanation.

@Vìtor 1°) I just tried the workflow and it works pretty well Thanks for sharing it. I was wondering what particular use cases you had in mind when you created it? 2°) Feature request : I believe that adding a notification (Post notification or Large type) showing that the application is "on pause" would make sense. For example when I paused an archive extraction in Forklift the only info showing me the application was "on pause" was a spinning wheel. As ForkLift often shows me a spinning wheel, especially when backing up my file, I found it a little bit confusing the first time I used the workflow. I thought "here we go, ForkLift is crashing, again". While it was not. What do you think?

@raguay.customct: Hi, I just downloaded the workflow on packal.org. Got this error: Starting debug for 'Directory Processing Workflow' [INFO: alfred.workflow.input.keyword] Processing output 'alfred.workflow.action.script' with arg '' [ERROR: alfred.workflow.action.script] cat: /Users/User/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Workflow Data/com.customct.DirectoryProcessingWF/dwork.txt: No such file or directory find: ftsopen: No such file or directory [INFO: alfred.workflow.action.script] Processing output 'alfred.workflow.output.notification' with arg '' [INFO: alfred.workflow.action.script] Processing output 'alfred.workflow.output.clipboard' with arg '' I can display the name of the directory being processed... and that is pretty much everything I can do with the workflow.

Had to reinstall it. v1.1 didn't work anymore. Feedback: github.com -> v1.2 packal.org -> v1.1 Could you add the latest version of the workflow on packal.org. Thank you!

This thread should be helpful.

Due to Youtube Data API changes, it is not working anymore.

+1 to a clipboard sync option. With Alfred recent improvements it makes more sense to add more sync options. Yes, I am looking at you urls/history feature

@deanishe wow. Thanks for your time. It helps A LOT.

@vero I didn't mentionned my particular setting in my first post because it had been working during weeks To any user who has a similar problem: While I am not 100% sure the problem comes from Synergy, it is 99% sure it does. Synergy messes up with keyboard shortcuts. For example: I could set up keyboard shortcuts in Synergy but they just didn't work at all. I tried another solution teleportd. I had been using teleportd before using Synergy. Worked fine with Alfred. Just retried it this morning. I only can toggle Alfred in my MackBook (the server) not my Mac Mini (the client). So, if I were you I would stick to Synergy.

Long story short. I made it work. Sort of. I followed your instructions. Everything was working fine on my second account. Back in my default account, deleted all the login items. None of my login items add a Alt+UpArrow key assigned as a keyboard shortcut. But you never know. Restarted my Mac. I can now use the Buffer file BUT only when I use my external keyboard NOT when I use the keyboard of my MacBook connected to my mac mini via Synergy (wifi). I can assign this keyboard shortcut to an Alfred workflow from any keyboard (external/MacBook) on my Mac Mini. I can assign this keyboard shortcut to an Alfred workflow on my MacBook. I can assign this keyboard shortcut to anything in the Apple System Preferences. Apparently, it is not a question of keyboard shortcut conflict. I checked I didn't modify the default setting of Alt in the Modifier Keys pane. This is really weird.

Yes it is checked. I tried the uncheck/recheck. Still not working. Rebooting the mac didn't help either.

@deanishe thanks for the tip. I religiously followed your advice about the escaping options. I am not sure I really do understand what the escaping are all about. Do escaping = escape characters? (Question of a noob I know). I am really interested in learning more about them because I planned creating more workflows with Run script actions (currently building a workflow with system_profiler).

@Andrew I asked the question on Askdifferent and here is the answer: Using the mdfind command which queries the Spotlight Database I have to say no because the tests I performed would indicate so. In a Terminal using mdfind -name .bash_history as well as subsequent commands changing the .filename portion of the command, mdfind did not return the specific file names while only returning filenames that contained the .filename portion within where applicable.

1°) What was I doing when the issue happened? - Was trying to add .rar files to Alfred's Buffer on my Mac Mini. Failed. - Tried the same action on my MacBook. Succeded. - Tried to do the same action with .txt files on my Mac Mini. Failed. - Checked Alfred's Buffer settings. Everything looks normal. - Closed and relaunched Alfred. Still failed at adding .rar files to the Buffer. No keyboard shortcut conflict involved. 2°) Was I able to replicate the test ? Yes. 4 times. 3°) Alfred version : Alfred 2 v2.6 (374) (on both Macs) 4°) OS X version: OS X Yosemite (on both Macs)

I am trying to build workflows where some dotfiles (shell configuration files) are involved. I've set public.data to file types in my file filter and added public.data to the default results settings in the advanced pane. No .bash_profile or .bash_history files appear in my results.

+1 I see more and more cases where this option would be very helpful.

Yeah! It is working! I didn't know it was so easy. I didn't know I just had to add {query}. Thank you very much!

@deanishe the scope is the user "Downloads" folder (/Users/Username/Downloads). I tried to define it with a file filter. I don't know how to code a script for a script filter. I have looked at the Text Tools workflow of Iankybutmacho. I think it does something similar to what I want in that it filters files of a scope defined by the user.

I have just created a few workflow with the tail command in zsh. I was looking for a workflow that would take the name of the file as an argument so I could 1°) type a keyword, 2°) the files of the scope I'd defined would appear, 3°) hit enter on the file I selected. The result of my query (tail -1 /Name/Of/The/file.txt) would appear in a large type output. I am stuck in the 2°) part.

It would be very cool to be able to enable/disable a macro from Alfred. Are you planning on adding such a feature?

Workflows with live search results are such a time saver (e.g. youtube, imdb workflows with live results). Sometimes, more than one results is really interesting. So, I would like to be able to select all the results I am interested in and once it is done hit enter to open the youtube/imdb page of the results I selected. In other words, I would like to be able to do with these search results what we already can do with the file buffer feature. What do you think?

Works very well. Thank you!

No account was set up with notes.app. My bad. Thank you !

@dfay Thanks for your answer! I didn't know you could only copy the query (i.e. without the keyword). I understood "query" as "keyword+query". My bad. Now understand what @consilver really meant. Great feature! You are right I can't beat a command+v... even if I have to hit cmd+left arrow to move my cursor at the right left of the Alfred search bar. By asking this question I was also thinking about a use case I didn't mention in my question. I am talking about web searches with suggestions (i.e. youtube, google search, amazon workflows with suggestions). I do not think I can copy the query (not the keyword+the query) in the clipboard in that case. Am I right? As I was trying to find a solution, I saw that, when a suggestion of these workflows is selected, alt and ctrl keys let you search. Hitting the cmd key does nothing. So, I thought what a better place to add an action modifier that would let me copy the query. What do you think?