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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.

Ah, it works. Sorry about that, I am having weird things with script running for some reason. Everything works fine in the Script Editor, but then it doesn't work, as a script file, a NASAppleScript or as a script.

Thanks to a generous Stack Exchange member, I have good code to make this work (maybe one of the previous did work though). tell application "System Events" set the visible of every process to true do shell script "killall -HUP Dock" end tell

Well, the above code works. It's just that adding it to an AppleScript in Alfred doesn't work for some reason. To make it work, I created a script with Script Editor, saved it, and then did an open file action in Alfred.

Does anyone know how to bring all hidden and minimized apps to the front? This would be a really good and useful workflow to have. Something like... tell application "Finder" to activate but with "tell all open applications to activate" and/or "tell all applications to bring to front" instead.

I tried my code in my first post (copied below) in the Apple Script Editor. It works 100%. If I try it in Alfred, it doesn't work for some reason. Anyone know why? It's a basic hotkey to a NSAppleScript. A normal script does the same thing. tell application "Finder" to activate tell application "System Events" keystroke "w" using {command down, option down} end tell

Tried your line of kind with every combination (alone, with mine, with end tell), but it doesn't work.

I'm trying to combine this to my Quit All workflow (but tested it alone), since Finder windows stay open. I've been searching and trying things out for the past hour. I found this thread, but no matter what I do, it doesn't work. Is there a way to make it work? Or is there a working Applescript that can activate Finder and then do Option+Cmd+W? Doesn't work: tell application "Finder" to activate tell application "System Events" keystroke "w" using {command down, option down} end tell Regards.

Ah, everything works now! Thanks!

Thanks for the reply Vítor. Yeah, killall makes a huge flash and may not be the best thing for permanent use. It also seems to only work for minimized apps or windows (not for hidden windows/apps]. What would be really cool would be to have a command or workflow where all minimized and hidden windows would be brought to the front. From this, it would be possible to triage your work from the multiple apps you were using (and then quit all and shut down the computer).

Hi Andrew, Thanks for the response. I sent you an email for the beta build. I would use the workaround, but the only options I have are 'Pass through to workflow' and 'Show Alfred' (no 'Pass through modifier keys (Fastest)' like mentioned in the thread). Also, the is my last allowable post (get this message: You can make 1 more posts until Today, 04:18 PM. This restriction is in place until 06 August 2016 - 04:16 PM). Could you please remove the new user spam block on my account? Regards.