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When I search Alfred for documents that are in iCloud, it always sees them, but when I press enter for documents that are not downloaded to the device, I get an error message. I have to use Spotlight or Launchbar to do it, and then it later works with Alfred. Is there any way around this? 
 
For example, when I search for a PDF that is in the cloud and try to launch it, PDF Expert says PDF Expert does not support "icloud" files. Would you like to open ".2018 Wrapped.pdf.icloud" with the system default viewer?
 
 

I love Alfred and it's one of the main reasons I love my Mac, but I encountered a very annoying issue while cleaning up disk space.
 
Although Alfred successfully finds files on iCloud, it doesn't allow you to open them (for example PDF files in PDF Expert) if they are only available on iCloud. This does work if they are also locally available. In other words, it seems to pass the iCloud link as an .iCloud file to the software to open, but won't automatically download it first.
 
Before you write it off as a third party bug (e.g. PDF Expert), it does actually work fine with the default Spotlight search, because Spotlight downloads the file before sending it to other software.

I have a problem where I have a file filter that searches for PDF files on my system. Firstly Alfred will show the file in both ~/Documents and iCloud Drive.
 

 
Not sure how to best solve this as I do have ~/Documents and ~/Desktop synced with iCloud. Perhaps I should just ignore ~/Documents folder in Alfred Prefs and only keep it to iCloud Drive? Or the other way?
 
That's one of the problems. The other is that if I do activate on any of the files I am met with this error:
 

 
Which I assume is due to macOS putting the files in the cloud. In finder, I can still open the file with CMD+O like here:

 
And macOS will open the file fine, downloading it first. It would be great if Alfred did the same under the hood if possible.