Andrew

Tab auto complete works like shell when in filesystem navigation mode, so you can do partial autocomplete (mashing the tab key for more matching). e.g. if a folder contains... Bananas Banaonos and the query typed is B[tab] it will autocomplete to Bana ready for you to type more. Use cmd+down to navigate into a folder at any point

Simply use cmd+down on the selected folder in the default results to navigate into that folder

Alfred should work fine with CleanMyMac - MacPaw were also very quick to respond to Vero for our recent whitelist request for an upcoming release

Glad to be of service... it's taken a bit of a sleepless marathon night and day, but with your feedback in this thread, we're pretty pleased with how things have turned out

As per your email, it looks like the cleaner apps are pulling the rug from under Alfred's feet. Can you add Alfred's folders to a whitelist in these apps? I'll add a ticket to try and make Alfred more resilient to this in the future. Vero has also contacted some of these apps to ask them to whitelist Alfred's caches, but not all are quick/responsive so it's best if you can manually whitelist apps' caches yourself.

Alfred doesn't have control over this... Path Finder inserts some data into Alfred's preferences to 'intercept' the system file interactions. You may need to raise a ticket with Path Finder if it's not managing to do this! Cheers, Andrew

Could you please email that to info@alfredapp com and let me see it? Also, could you update to 2.0.1 which finds apps marked as MDSystemFile too... no apps in /Applications should be marked with this, but there could be some broken metadata.

If you open Terminal.app and paste the following: osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to empty trash" what happens? Cheers, Andrew

Hi there, Could you please tell me if the following file has been created in your home folder: ~/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-2/filecache.alfdb If it doesn't, there may be a permissions problem on your Mac and Alfred can't persist or use his app cache. If you repair your OS X permissions, this should fix the issue. Cheers, Andrew

Are you using a 3rd party app which could be clearing OS X's caches on restart (such as app cleaner etc)... this may be corrupting Alfred's application cache. Also, are you running low on disk space?

Cheers! This should be fixed in the 2.0.1 build coming soon

It looks like PHP is broken on your Mac... David or another user may be able to help you out with this as you need PHP working (as it should do by default in OS X) for workflows based on PHP to run.

Try {date:short}

If you open Console.app, do you have any clues logged out in there? Do you have any apps or situations which could be blocking the internet connection required for these workflows?

This is deffo on the plan - the easiest way for now is to right click in the workflow list and reveal in finder, rename your workflow from the UID to something easier to recognise, then just duplicate in Finder. Alfred is watching this folder and will load the dupes in

Could you expand that little triangle to the left of Alfred Preferences in console.app which will show me a much larger stack trace - you can then copy the actual text and paste it here! thanks!

I'm currently working on 2.0.1 which should address some of the issues discussed here

Could you give an example of when you would use this? I've moved this to feature suggestions as it's not a bug report.

This is now super easy with a workflow. Wire a "keyword" input into either a "default web search" or "open url" action. in the action, you can set the browser which the URL opens in If you click the [+] button on the bottom left of the Workflow prefs, select Examples and install the "What Movie Should I Watch" the youtube action in here is an example of this as it opens YouTube in Chrome. Hope this helps! Cheers, Andrew

It might be worth creating a new user profile, switching to that and trying from there to see if things work

I actually already have a ticket to look into this

I am not using marginalising language, the data is in the sales figures. +95% of the sales since Alfred v2 was released a few days ago are new users who didn't need a migration. These are the users who have been holding off from buying Alfred because they have been waiting for Alfred v2, this is part of the pressure which has pushed Alfred 2 to be released because without the sales or income, Alfred couldn't exist. Added to this, we have had an overwhelming amount of excited feedback from upgrading users via email and tweets praising the new workflows, with people sharing with us how they have managed to enhance their workflows during the migration process. This thread and a handful of tweets on this subject represent the only negative feedback I've really ever had about Alfred. I fully understand where the issue has been, I have said I'm sorry and I'm definitely going to take that into account in moving forward, but for now, I'm going to step out of this thread.

All I can say is that I'm really sorry, and I'm certainly not being obtuse. I am EXTREMELY sensitive about the feedback of Alfred and am very stressed and disappointed about this specific feedback. I knew that not migrating v1 was going to be an issue, but didn't realise that a small handful of users were going to be this upset. There has been a HUGE amount of pressure on both me and Vero to get Alfred v2 released. I am the only developer of Alfred and have spent 9 months, 16 hours a day including weekends to completely rewrite Alfred v1 (which was built from the top down and needed a significant architectural change to pave the way for the future). It would have delayed Alfred v2's release by 2 months if I had added a bug free migration from v1 to v2, a delay which I simply did not want to entertain. David stepped in and offered to create some migration tools to get the essentials copied over so we could get Alfred v2 out as soon as possible, which has been a great help, and has satisfied the absolute vast majority of users upgrading. If I spent the next 2 months working on migration, by the time it's finished, most people will have migrated anyway and these 2 months could have been better spent on what love and do best... planning and improving Alfred.

Alfred simply watches the Alfred.alfredpreferences folder and doesn't care where this actually is. He locally stores where he should be looking in com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-Preferences.plist but other than that, he doesn't even know syncing is happening. Check the preferences plist to see if the correct location is being read by using defaults read com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-Preferences look for "syncfolder". If the files are being messed with outside of Alfred's control (i.e. dodgy sync clashes etc), there isn't much he can do!

Thanks for the update - very strange indeed!