Andrew

@sepulchra Vitor has raised an internal ticket for this, so I'll take a look at what could be happening when I get a moment. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a design reason this wouldn't work, so it may just be a bug.

@Brandon Faloona could you please type ?diagnostics into Alfred and email the exported file to our main info@ address, I'd like to see if Alfred has actually been able to download the tasks himself. This should hopefully allow me to provide a solution, otherwise I'll reply with instructions to install the tasks manually. Cheers, Andrew

@saor47 To clarify my previous reply, you're instructing Alfred that you're passing a file path back as the argument, but telling him to skip the validation. If you're forcibly passing back a URL instead of a file as the argument, the behaviour becomes undefined / unsupported. Cheers, Andrew [moving to Workflow Questions]

@nb1 If you set Alfred's focus mode to "Compatibility Mode", then Alfred's window will act more like a traditional window in macOS and take the focus when you show him. This setting is in Prefs > Appearance > Options (bottom left) > Focusing Note that for every other use, the default focusing mode makes Alfred work better and more predictably, so use this setting mindfully. Cheers, Andrew

@saor47 The "file:skipcheck" is simply to tell Alfred not to check if a file exists before presenting to the user. This doesn't alter the argument passed out. Also, the File Buffer is for files only, not URLs, so it's not clear what you're trying to achieve. Could you please provide a small example workflow, and a bit more of a description, that'd be helpful! Cheers, Andrew

@Michael Leddy the biggest clue is the "On my way!" example, which operates at a lower level than the clipboard, and suggests this issue is outside of Alfred. What I suspect is happening is another app on your Mac (which may have accessibility access) is momentarily fettling the clipboard, and Alfred is just doing what is asked of him by storing this in the clipboard. Try the following couple of things: 1. Quit every other app, including background apps (aText etc), menu bar apps on your Mac, and see if the "On My way!" issue still happens. 2. Create a second account on your Mac, switch to that user, and see if the "On My Way!" example happens. Cheers, Andrew

It's also worth noting that in your screenshot, fileproviderd and fseventsd are also super high CPU usage. Are your preferences stored locally or on e.g. iCloud / Google Drive? If not, move them local and see if this is the cause.

@mikedvzo As this issue is unique to you, I'll need as much info as possible to try and ascertain what you have on both Macs which could be causing this issue. The first place to start is with a Sample Process in Activity Monitor while the Preferences is at 100%. This could help point towards the root of the issue. If you could reply to Vero's email with that, and with a Diagnostics from Alfred Preference's help tab.

@zeitlings I've put in some range and divisor warnings for the next build, and upped the artificial 25 maximum markers limit. As a side note, after spending some time fiddling with this, setting the snapped marker count incorrectly is an easy (non-obvious) trap to fall into, so the additional warnings are very useful. Thanks for highlighting this issue.

This is actually a pretty interesting quirk, and it looks like Alfred's doing everything he can correctly. In the first example, Alfred is correctly saving the visible integer value, and when re-opening is setting that same value back on to the macOS slider, but the macOS slider component is truncating and snapping it to the lower value (closer marker). I already mention in the subtext for the Only Stop on Markers: "Test your configuration carefully to match your desired value range", which is essentially warning about what you've found. I could update this to show a warning that the markers don't divide cleanly into the number range, I'll add an internal ticket to have a think about it.

@caleb531 I've added an internal ticket to look into this, thanks!

@drnut Take another read of @zeitlings reply, as this tells you everything you need if you want to use the Script Filter. If you don't want to return additional results into Alfred and just want to run a script with an argument, perhaps what you're looking for is: Keyword -> Run Script -> Large Type

@MINT Alfred's default knowledge and latching is based on the currently typed phrase in Alfred's input field to the selected result. As such "F" could match "Firefox", but "Fi" could match "Find My". Take a careful read through this page which explains exactly how Alfred sorts, and when happens when Alfred doesn't have relevant knowledge: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/kb/understanding-result-ordering/ Cheers, Andrew

@zlebandit could you email the exported output of typing ?diagnostics into Alfred to our info@ address so I can take a quick peek at Alfred's settings? Cheers, Andrew

@zlebandit do you have the following option selected: Features > Contacts > Advanced > Use Spotlight metadata to searching contacts This can sometimes result in duplicate contacts if you have a copy (backup) of the contacts somewhere random on your Mac.