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Sigh: restarting fixed it, of course. Sorry, rookie move. Feel free to close this.

I'm having an issue where Alfred is completely unresponsive on a second user account (I have a "main" account for personal use and a "work" account for when I work from home, and it's the latter under which Alfred doesn't work). It works fine under the main account. This is a couple weeks after my updating to Mojave, but it didn't happen immediately.

Symptoms / related notes: I can launch Alfred Preferences. Alfred 3 shows up in Activity Monitor but the hotkey doesn't bring it up and the menubar icon doesn't appear (though I've enabled it in the Preferences); sometimes it becomes "(Not Responding)" in Activity Monitor after a short while, but inconsistently.

Here are the console messages (filtered by term "alfred") that I see after trying to launch Alfred:

Quote

default    09:09:35.840734 -0700    Alfred Preferences    27366555: RECEIVED OUT-OF-SEQUENCE NOTIFICATION: 0 vs 249, 513, <private>
default    09:10:03.884249 -0700    loginwindow    -[ApplicationManager checkInAppContext:refCon:eventData:] |      checked in app : Alfred 3
default    09:10:03.929579 -0700    launchservicesd    CHECKIN:0x0-0x2f02f0 53278 com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-3
default    09:10:03.931461 -0700    loginwindow    -[ApplicationManager checkInAppContext:refCon:eventData:] |      checked in app : Alfred 3
default    09:10:03.944311 -0700    tccd    -[TCCDAccessIdentity staticCode]: static code for: identifier com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-3, type: 0: 0x7f8c63f1dbf0 at /Applications/Alfred 3.app
default    09:10:03.966071 -0700    Alfred 3    Current system appearance, (HLTB: 1), (SLS: 0)
default    09:10:03.968968 -0700    Alfred 3    Post-registration system appearance: (HLTB: 1)
error    09:10:03.969592 -0700    Alfred 3    Unable to load Info.plist exceptions (eGPUOverrides)
default    09:10:03.978098 -0700    Alfred 3    NSApp cache appearance:
-NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance: 1
-appearance: (null)
-effectiveAppearance: <NSCompositeAppearance: 0x600002cc0a50
 (
    "<NSAquaAppearance: 0x600001ac6c80>",
    "<NSSystemAppearance: 0x600001ac6d80>"
)>
default    09:10:04.033379 -0700    tccd    -[TCCDAccessIdentity staticCode]: static code for: identifier com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-3, type: 0: 0x7f8c63f432a0 at /Applications/Alfred 3.app
default    09:10:04.042040 -0700    Alfred 3    UNIX error exception: 17
default    09:10:04.045071 -0700    Alfred 3    UNIX error exception: 17
default    09:10:04.047810 -0700    Alfred 3    UNIX error exception: 17
default    09:10:04.049927 -0700    Alfred 3    UNIX error exception: 17
default    09:10:04.053776 -0700    Alfred 3    UNIX error exception: 17
default    09:10:04.221917 -0700    tccd    -[TCCDAccessIdentity staticCode]: static code for: identifier com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-3, type: 0: 0x7faa38d29510 at /Applications/Alfred 3.app
default    09:10:05.066867 -0700    tccd    -[TCCDAccessIdentity staticCode]: static code for: identifier com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-3, type: 0: 0x7faa38e3bfe0 at /Applications/Alfred 3.app
default    09:10:05.090871 -0700    tccd    -[TCCDAccessIdentity staticCode]: static code for: identifier com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-3, type: 0: 0x7faa38c25ac0 at /Applications/Alfred 3.app
default    09:10:05.114321 -0700    tccd    -[TCCDAccessIdentity staticCode]: static code for: identifier com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-3, type: 0: 0x7faa38e384b0 at /Applications/Alfred 3.app
default    09:10:13.974138 -0700    Alfred 3    LSExceptions shared instance invalidated for timeout.

I figured it out. The problem is that I was triggering the script filter with a hotkey, and I had incorrectly chosen "Pass through to workflow" rather than "Show Alfred" as the Action.

I'm not totally clear on why this matters; since my script filter doesn't actually use its arguments when "Alfred filters results" is checked, why should it matter if I pass something in from the hotkey? If someone can explain that, it might help my understanding. But my main problem is solved.

I'm working on a script to play music using MPD. I want to list available albums and have Alfred filter them rather than doing the filtering myself in a script filter. But when I check the "Alfred filters results" check box, the result is an empty list regardless of what I type:

If, on the other hand, I uncheck that box, I get a list of albums as expected, but I can't type to filter them:

Here's my code, in Python. It's really not very complicated:

from __future__ import unicode_literals
from __future__ import print_function

import json
import os
import subprocess
import sys

MUSIC_DIR = '/Users/Shared/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music'
FIND_CMD = [
    '/usr/local/bin/mpc', 'list', 'album'
]


def make_item(album_name):
    return dict(
        title=album_name,
        uid=album_name,
        valid=True,
        arg=json.dumps({'album': album_name}),
        icon='icon.png',
        autocomplete=album_name,
    )


def main():
    print(json.dumps({
        'items': [
            make_item(item)
            for item in subprocess.check_output(FIND_CMD).decode('utf-8').split('\n')
            if item.strip()
        ]
    }))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main())

Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong?