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    gingerbeardman reacted to Vero in Clipboard history disabled after migration and relicencing   
    @gingerbeardman Yes, this is by design. As you know, Clipboard History keeps a copy of text you've copied on your Mac, so this feature needs to be manually enabled on each Mac.
     
    This ensures the feature isn't accidentally enabled on your Mac, and allows you to decide whether, for example, you want to enable it at home but not at work by not syncing this setting.
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    gingerbeardman reacted to vitor in downforeveryoneorjustme.com workflow   
    @mgguinne Most straightforward solution is to install Homebrew and run brew install php.
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    gingerbeardman got a reaction from JJJJ in downforeveryoneorjustme.com workflow   
    I found a site called https://doj.me (down or just me) which has been around for a couple of years and allows querying like we need.
     
    https://www.gingerbeardman.com/alfred/is-it-down.alfredworkflow
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    gingerbeardman reacted to Andrew in Duplicate apps in results (10.15 and V4)   
    Just type "reload" into Alfred 3 to remove the duplicates.
     
    Cheers,
    Andrew
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    gingerbeardman reacted to Andrew in Duplicate apps in results (10.15 and V4)   
    If you update to the Alfred 4.0.5 b1116 pre-release, the duplicates should now be gone, and Alfred will also show /Applications/ as the path where appropriate.
     
    Cheers,
    Andrew
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    gingerbeardman reacted to vitor in Issues with the YouTube suggest workflow   
    The Alfred 4.6 Released: Ready for macOS Monterey blog post has the answer:
     
     
    Essentially:
    Open a terminal. Install Homebrew. Run brew install php.
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    gingerbeardman got a reaction from Pyetro in Pin Plus — Interact with your Pinboard bookmarks   
    Just take a browse of Twitter mentions @pinboard it's plain to see. No hypothesis or doubt needed. 
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    gingerbeardman got a reaction from vitor in Pin Plus — Interact with your Pinboard bookmarks   
    That is a Pinboard server error. 
     
    The owner of Pinboard is on hiatus and the service seems to be falling into disrepair. His contact details are on his twitter profile (though he's taking a break from twitter) 
     
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    gingerbeardman got a reaction from Chris Messina in Apple Music search with Alfred   
    Version 2.4
    - fixes generic search (example highlighted below)
    - fixes mu command
    https://www.gingerbeardman.com/alfred/
     

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    gingerbeardman reacted to Vero in "Alfred 4" needs to be updated �   
    @Chris Messina We've created a page to let users know what's happening; In short, and much as you and @deanishe have deduced, this is a notification from macOS that a workflow uses Python 2. Clicking "OK" makes it go away, the workflows work and you shouldn't be notified again.
     
    As this notification is being shown outside of Alfred, and somewhat opaquely by macOS, Alfred can't treat this scenario in the same way he does with PHP (which is essentially a missing binary). If python was missing altogether, you'd see the same kind of dialog you see with PHP. In all likelihood, we will add a warning dialog closer to the time this becomes a larger issue, but for now, click "OK" once and continue as usual.
     
    Cheers,
    Vero
     
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    gingerbeardman reacted to alfredpanda in Emoji Taco - (downloads emoji from unicode.org)   
    @mochiguy I use this one now instead - works perfectly aside from the fact it seems to be missing a few emoji.
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    gingerbeardman got a reaction from JolinM in Workflows that access internet always blocked by Little Snitch   
    Thanks, this was driving me nuts. 
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    gingerbeardman reacted to vitor in Workflow to mount volumes   
    Link was broken, with %C2%A0 in the place of the space. Fixed now.
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    gingerbeardman reacted to vitor in Workflow to mount volumes   
    Here’s a simple Workflow to do what you want. It’s pretty bare, in that it doesn’t show the volume’s name or size (it’s a quick semi-hackish solution which parses the human-readable output of diskutil instead of the plist), but unless you have a ton of external disks connected at once, it should fulfil your immediate needs.
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    gingerbeardman reacted to JolinM in Workflows that access internet always blocked by Little Snitch   
    So basically, you just need to uncheck the Check process identity box in Little Snitch for Alfred 4.

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    gingerbeardman reacted to Vero in Clipboard hotkey that can paste plain text   
    @tianshilei1992 If you go to the Workflows tab, click the [+] in the bottom left, under Templates > Clipboard > you'll find a "Paste as plain text from clipboard" workflow. Add your own hotkey, and you'll be able to do exactly what you need
     
    Cheers,
    Vero
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    gingerbeardman reacted to deanishe in The object/verb modifier   
    I know how Quicksilver works.
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    gingerbeardman got a reaction from Chris Messina in Standard Workflow Object + Alfred-UI for obtaining API tokens   
    I'm a long time Alfred user (next month it will be a decade since my first powerpack puchase; I started with Alfred version 0.8.2).
     
    Even as a workflow creator/power user I consider my use of Alfred quite limited in scope: clipboard history, web searches, a few workflows with keywords, a few workflows with only hotkeys, and of course app launching. 
     
    Anyway, I found out about Raycast yesterday and given that I'm away from my computer right now all I can do is read about it and watch YouTube videos. This is the only thread on Alfred Forum about Raycast (surprising!) so I thought I'd add my thoughts here. I'm excited to see how it fits with my habits, it has the possibility of replacing multiple apps on my Mac. At a minimum the user interface and preferences window look extremely well considered. 
     
    It seems Raycast have done a few things different which has given them traction:
    targeting developers ahead of normal users bundled workflows for popular services onboarding process that empowers users user interface is insanely great all features are free (for now, they say) big team and rapid iteration is apparent everywhere Reading yesterday on twitter a couple of thing caught my eye which I feel summarises the situation nicely:
     
     
    There are many more along this line, with many developers stating that they are switching from Alfred to Raycast citing things that were already possible in Alfred. They were obviously unaware of these things. Example:
     
     
    (of course I replied to say that this is indeed already possible using Alfred)
     
    So I'm wondering how many Alfred users dive into workflows to customise the experience to suit themselves? Apparently not as many as I would have expected! And these users are all developers. Thinking about it, Alfred workflow discovery is actually very difficult for users. 
     
    It might make sense for Alfred to rise to the occasion and surface more things during onboarding to make it known that the gap between Alfred and Raycast may not be as big as some users think. Apologies if it already does as it's been many years since I saw the Alfred onboarding process. 
     
     
    Finally, I have to mention that this thread comes across as quite dismissive of good intentions in a host of ways. I found it really tough to read. This vibe pervades a lot of this forum in my experience. I'd like to see that improve. 
     
    To get back on topic, if workflows are already managing API and tokens themselves in a whole variety of ways, it seems obvious to me that an official way to do that with a unified interface/experience could only be a good thing for users?
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    gingerbeardman got a reaction from JJJJ in Standard Workflow Object + Alfred-UI for obtaining API tokens   
    I'm a long time Alfred user (next month it will be a decade since my first powerpack puchase; I started with Alfred version 0.8.2).
     
    Even as a workflow creator/power user I consider my use of Alfred quite limited in scope: clipboard history, web searches, a few workflows with keywords, a few workflows with only hotkeys, and of course app launching. 
     
    Anyway, I found out about Raycast yesterday and given that I'm away from my computer right now all I can do is read about it and watch YouTube videos. This is the only thread on Alfred Forum about Raycast (surprising!) so I thought I'd add my thoughts here. I'm excited to see how it fits with my habits, it has the possibility of replacing multiple apps on my Mac. At a minimum the user interface and preferences window look extremely well considered. 
     
    It seems Raycast have done a few things different which has given them traction:
    targeting developers ahead of normal users bundled workflows for popular services onboarding process that empowers users user interface is insanely great all features are free (for now, they say) big team and rapid iteration is apparent everywhere Reading yesterday on twitter a couple of thing caught my eye which I feel summarises the situation nicely:
     
     
    There are many more along this line, with many developers stating that they are switching from Alfred to Raycast citing things that were already possible in Alfred. They were obviously unaware of these things. Example:
     
     
    (of course I replied to say that this is indeed already possible using Alfred)
     
    So I'm wondering how many Alfred users dive into workflows to customise the experience to suit themselves? Apparently not as many as I would have expected! And these users are all developers. Thinking about it, Alfred workflow discovery is actually very difficult for users. 
     
    It might make sense for Alfred to rise to the occasion and surface more things during onboarding to make it known that the gap between Alfred and Raycast may not be as big as some users think. Apologies if it already does as it's been many years since I saw the Alfred onboarding process. 
     
     
    Finally, I have to mention that this thread comes across as quite dismissive of good intentions in a host of ways. I found it really tough to read. This vibe pervades a lot of this forum in my experience. I'd like to see that improve. 
     
    To get back on topic, if workflows are already managing API and tokens themselves in a whole variety of ways, it seems obvious to me that an official way to do that with a unified interface/experience could only be a good thing for users?
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    gingerbeardman reacted to gandalfsaxe in Apple Music search with Alfred   
    Ah I was on VPN before, now it's only 10s, and without thumbnails 3s. I still prefer without thumbnails though. Thanks
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    gingerbeardman reacted to Macchio in Apple Music search with Alfred   
    Stumbled over this post and ran into the same issues that other users have mentioned when running macOS Catalina 10.15.
     
    After running the debug I saw a duplicate error showing a missing directory, so as an experiment, I ran the following in Terminal:
     
    mkdir ~/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-3/ && mkdir ~/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-3/Workflow\ Data/ This created the directory where the python script returns album thumbnails from the Album & Song search commands.
     
    Additionally since Catalina replaces iTunes.app with Music.app, I went through the three python scripts and archived some of the URL scheme that Music doesn't seem to need. I bumped up the workflow version to 2.1 for tracking purposes.
     
    Search Apple Music.alfredworkflow [Google Drive]
     
    Thanks to all the creators who have put this together!
     
    Pro-Tip: Update Line 19/20 in the artist, album, and song python scripts to your country code to improve search results with images.
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    gingerbeardman reacted to deanishe in Recent problem with python workflow   
    It was redirecting me to https://17.124.168.180/search?term=['my\\+search\\+query']&country=GB&app=music&entity=album&limit=15&media=apple_music, though not consistently.
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    gingerbeardman reacted to luckman212 in Can Alfred search the Mac Keychain   
    @gingerbeardman Hey 👋   Happy Friday!  I wasn't referring to your workflow actually. I was talking about Red Sweater's Usable Keychain Scripting (download).
     

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    gingerbeardman got a reaction from sin in Can Alfred search the Mac Keychain   
    So I finally put together a workaround for this using UI scripting.
     
    https://www.gingerbeardman.com/alfred/Search Keychain.alfredworkflow
     
    Accept keyword and argument Launch Keychain Access via Alfred Workflow AppleScript focus search box, enter argument, copy password prompt, quit Keychain Access (user enter password and confirm) The core of it is the AppleScript:
    on alfred_script(q) activate application "Keychain Access" tell application "System Events" tell process "Keychain Access" set value of text field 1 of group 2 of toolbar 1 of window "Keychain Access" to q click button 1 of text field 1 of group 2 of toolbar 1 of window "Keychain Access" click menu item "Copy Password to Clipboard" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Edit" of menu bar 1 end tell end tell quit application "Keychain Access" end alfred_script  
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    gingerbeardman got a reaction from gr8 in Can Alfred search the Mac Keychain   
    So I finally put together a workaround for this using UI scripting.
     
    https://www.gingerbeardman.com/alfred/Search Keychain.alfredworkflow
     
    Accept keyword and argument Launch Keychain Access via Alfred Workflow AppleScript focus search box, enter argument, copy password prompt, quit Keychain Access (user enter password and confirm) The core of it is the AppleScript:
    on alfred_script(q) activate application "Keychain Access" tell application "System Events" tell process "Keychain Access" set value of text field 1 of group 2 of toolbar 1 of window "Keychain Access" to q click button 1 of text field 1 of group 2 of toolbar 1 of window "Keychain Access" click menu item "Copy Password to Clipboard" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Edit" of menu bar 1 end tell end tell quit application "Keychain Access" end alfred_script  
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