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I accidently turned on syncing for all of my Drive folders in the Google Drive app, and then reclicking/re-syncing the Alfred backup folder only selected a few subfolders. I'll keep it as is (with Alfred and syncing back to normal) and instead will always do a manual backup when I make changes to my workflows. I don't trust automatic backups. They are useful, but in conjunction with manual backups, and as a secondary backup. Too much of a risk that something goes wrong and then you find out the automatic backup broke a few months back—similar to the scare I just had. So the main Alfred settings/workflow file is directly in the synced backup folder? It's the main settings backup file? What is the Alfred prefereneces file in the 'Library/Application Support/Alfred 3' folder?

And also, with similar experience with the syncing of software like iTunes (where an empty iTunes library wipes out your iPod/iPhone if you have the sync checked on)... If all the workflows are somehow deleted from Alfred, for whatever reason, will Alfred sync the new version of the settings/workflows—the new version being the one with no more workflows—to the synced backup, and therefore completely wiping clean the backup as well?

Is the 'Alfred.alfredpreferences' file in 'Library/Application Support/Alfred 3' the latest file with all workflows and settings? If I want to do a manual backup, backing this up would be the best way to do it?

Everything is back to normal! Somehow, Google Drive was syncing only a few workflows and had unchecked all the rest. Rechecking all the workflows and files fixed everything.

I just installed the latest update for Alfred. Usually there aren't any problems, but now almost all my workflows were deleted, as well as all of my snippets. There is hours of work into these. I had a synced backup folder. I don't know if Alfred synced the deleted list of workflows. How do I get back my workflows?

Hi Vero, Sometimes I am using a different Mac. However, I have my own personal user account, which is the same no matter which computer I use.

I use Alfred to redirect keyboard shortcuts, which are used for a graphics tablet. At school, I installed Alfred wit my activation code, but for some reason, I need to re-activate it almost every single time. Because of this, I have to ask the teacher, or someone in the school that I can find, to turn on the Internet so that I can activate the Alfred Power Pack. It doesn't sound that bad, but today, I had to wait for a total of 25 minutes before I could activate Alfred (for the two times I asked for the Internet to be opened). Why is this happening and how do you fix it? Regards.

Hi Andrew, Thanks for the reply. All is understood now. Regards.

There were some workflows that the bug was happening, but there was one keyboard key that was creating the bug no matter the mode of the hotkey. It did the exact same thing using a similar but different application. So this wasn't due to Alfred, but rather because of the keyboard key. Maybe that can be useful to know. It was a non-English character, 'À'. It is situated on the key all the way to the right, and directly under the 'delete' key on MacBook Pro keyboards (13-inch).

Creating a really good work setup takes a lot of effort and time to code and compile. I want to back up my Alfred settings and workflows. I found the syncing feature and set it up. However, I would still like to do a manual backup, and there are also a few things I don't completely understand regarding how the sync backup functions. I have the following questions: 1. Are both the workflows and all the settings backed up to the sync backup? Is it pretty much everything? 2. What is the frequency of the sync backup (I just checked and it seems the file was modified a few days ago, but I did some changes today and yesterday)? 3. How do you initiate the sync backup? 4. How do you do a manual backup? 5. Are all the settings, as well as the workflows inside this manual backup? Is it pretty much everything? Regards.

Oh, okay. Cool. I'll give an update once I start adding new workflows with this setting. Thanks.

Hi Vero, I sent you an email with the subject as WorkflowsThatCauseBug with the workflows. When I posted my previous comment, only the Copy to Clipboard action was causing the bug. Now, also some System Commands cause it. I deleted it but it was hotkey and System Command action (Sleep). Regards.

Cool. Thanks for the tip.

It's good. Thanks.

I upgraded to the beta build and almost everything is working fine—although I don't know if it is because I switched almost everything to 'Pass through modifier keys (Fastest)'. However, it seems like there is one thing that is consistently causing the bug, every time and as soon as you use the workflow. That is 'Copy to Clipboard' with a hotkey (no matter if you switch it to 'Pass through modifier keys (Fastest)'). If it can be of any use, the modifiers I used to set these to are the ^ / ctrl and ⌥ / option modifiers.