gingerbeardman

or switch:
 
activate application "Mail"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Mail"
if title of window 1 does not contain "Inbox" then
if value of attribute "AXFocused" of text field 1 of front window is true then
set value of attribute "AXFocused" of UI element 1 of scroll area 4 of front window to true
else
set value of attribute "AXFocused" of text field 1 of front window to true
end if
end if
end tell
end tell

We have just released v2.0.1, which provides an in-app way to import almost all of your settings - and explains why your workflows and themes need to be manually migrated. 
 
You can either download it from the homepage (http://www.alfredapp.com/#download) or you can update in-app from the General prefs tab. When you update to v2.0.1, you'll see an "Import settings" button on the General tab. You can select which setting groups you'd like to import, and web searches & clipboard snippets will respect any items you've already manually created in v2.

I made one like this a little while ago, but with dynamic results:
 
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14050630/Down%20for%20everyone.alfredworkflow   I can't find the original post where I shared it.

I've just tried this, but, isn't this the same as the actual search input inside virtually any OSX app? Actually, my Mountain Lion install (I asume everyones) comes with a shortcut (Cmd + shift + /) to toggle this

Hi,
 
I've created a basic workflow that searches the system's menu bar. After having used Sublime Text's command palette I wanted to have a similar system-wide functionality. EDIT: For people that haven't worked with Sublime Text's command palette: the command palette allows you to fuzzy search the entire application menu by keyboard. This saves both time on hunting down the right menu and saves you having to remember all sorts of keyboard shortcuts. For a brief introduction on Sublime Text's command palette see https://tutsplus.com/lesson/the-command-palette/
 
EDIT: Better use ctwise's "2.0" workflow http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1993-menu-search/ [old download is still available at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6259900/Menu%20bar%20search.alfredworkflow]
 
The current workflow does not do any fuzzy searching and every keystroke executes the entire script again. My preferred fix to this would be to have a script input that is only executed once, and have Alfred do the subsequent fuzzy matching based on the initial result.
 
Jeroen van der Neut
@jvdneut

Hello,
 
It would be nice to have the possibility to test one workflow in the free version. It's one of the most important feature of this new version, and it would be interesting to have the possibility to test it before deciding to buy
 
Thank you

I agree with snarf. Hotkeys in Alfred 2 is a pain in the ass.
  I do not have hundred but only 16 hotkeys in v1 and I also do not like to click it again. Especially as it is more work than in v1. What is worse that the hotkeys works slower in v2. Much slower. This is frustrating!   I love Alfred v1 because is fast. For complicate workflows I have Keyboard Maestro.   I think Alfred loses his soul in exchange for functionality. For now I'm staying with v1. At least until recover speed of the hotkeys.

Seriously, I have more than a hunderd hotkeys to open files, start apps, etc. And now you come with an 'upgrade', but you don't allow me to import my old stuff. How weird is that?! #fail
 
Also, creating new hotkeys is hidden way to far in pull-down menus. I'm sure Alfred V2 has great new features, but in terms of interface it's a step back. Stuff that it used a lot should be easy to find.
 
For now I'm sticking with V1.

I'm going to spell this out for you because I can't believe how obtuse you're being about this. (Note also that I have a tremendous amount of respect for you and your software. I've purchased LaunchBar in the past and was a die-hard power user of Quicksilver until Alfred came along. Your user interface in v1 was brilliant and utterly intuitive.)
 
When I read in The Verge that v2 was out of beta. I immediately went to the site to download it. I was expecting something on the front page indicating "hey v1 user, here's how you get v2." What I got instead was nothing at all. I thought, "hey maybe I should just download it." So I clicked on the download link and finally saw something for v1, which was about getting upgrade pricing for the Power Pack. I knew that I'd want that so I went ahead and bought it.
 
By then my download had finished, so I ran Alfred. Huh, looks exactly the same. Went to /Applications and saw "Alfred 2." I thought that was strange, but I'm easy-going. I started it and looked through the preferences that come up. Everything's empty and even my minor choices weren't observed.
 
So I go to Alfred support. No mention there, no search results, nothing. Okay, maybe it's in the forum. Click over there and there was one thread about upgrading (at the time). I read through all of that and the last reply was from 2/28. It was from David Ferguson and it was from the beta period. He said that maybe they'd come up with a migration workflow to include in the final release. No link to his personal blog, no indication that it made it into the final release.
 
At this point, I realized I was entirely on my own and wrote my posts. Later in the day David Ferguson linked to his workflow, which is very handy. I received your defensive responses about how different all of these settings are and how human intelligence is necessary to manually copy the extensions over because then we can really re-evaluate whether we're using the full power of the Workflow. (If you guys had just copied them in and gave me an alert that they probably needed some tweaking, I promise I would've done that. I've been doing Web applications for 14 years now and I have done quite a few migrations--heck, I even merged two separate applications into one and handled all of the data importing--so please spare me about how it couldn't have been done, especially when you also point out that you were completely rewriting the application. 80% migration and punting on the really dodgy pieces would have spared me this whole unpleasantness and the coming manual waste of time.)
 
My points are that I shouldn't have had to work this hard to a) find out that automatic migration wasn't possible, figure out that dfreg.us is a member of the Alfred team, and c) discern that his migration workflow is the official tool. If there had been a migration page, which could not have delayed the launch by more than a day if at all, then I could have gone there, downloaded the workflow, and read how you've punted on helping me with any other pieces.
 
That is what I meant by "bad form."
 
Bill

Forgive me if this has been covered, I'm new to Alfred 2 (though I'm a long time Alfred 1 user)
 
Is there a mechanism for keeping the Alfred 2 workflows up-to-date?
 
Perhaps similar to what Safari offers for Extensions?
 
Thanks

I've got tons of hotkeys set up, AppleScripts mapped, extensions added, and other minor customizations done like custom searches. From what I gather, migration from v1 to v2 wasn't a priority and we're told that there might be a one-time workflow created to accomplish this. I was an early adopter of Alfred, bought the first Power Pack, and immediately bought the v2 one as soon as I heard.
 
I'm supposed to dutifully migrate each hotkey from the simple interface in Alfred v1 over to the Workflow system in v2? Forget all of the extensions I had before and search for new workflows? Manually and tediously copy over my AppleScripts? I'm looking over the "Templates" in Workflows and it took me two tries to find one to make a global hotkey open an app. The old interface was drop-dead simple: drag app into the Global Hotkey pane, pick a hotkey, and finished. It was delightful.
 
Long story short, I am *not* manually importing all this. Figure this out or I'm getting a refund.
 
Bill

Is it possible to migrate my usage data to v2?  I'm particularly proud of it and it would hurt to lose that... not critical but just wondering if its possible.

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