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  1. Thank you., @Andrew! 🙏 Both those options work for me 🙂. Given that I didn't know merge pasting existed, turning it off is the easy fix. There was also another option: 3. Uncheck 'Play a sound when appending' (this also solves my issue) Note that the help text for this field is 'Plays the system 'Purr' sound when an item is successfully appended', but in macOS Sonoma that particular sound has been renamed to Pluck. My problem is solved but just in case this affects others, it appears that there's a bug in the double cmd-C detection. I have tested it and found that when I select text with the mouse, then pause, then type cmd-C (once), there is no sound. But if I select text and quickly type cmd-C then I get the Pluck sound. It is as if when cmd-C is pressed, the logic is looking at the timestamp of the most recent thing copied to the clipboard, seeing that it's very recent, and incorrectly concluding that it must be because it's a double cmd-C situation. Does the clipboard in macOS say which application put the content there? If so, the test could be amended to be... if something was recently copied to the clipboard (<1s) AND that application was Alfred, then perform a merge. Many thanks again for the quick response and solution!
  2. When I am in iTerm, I select text with the cursor and type cmd-C to copy it. When I do this, there's a 10-20% chance it will make a sound (the "Pluck" sound from macOS's built-in sounds). When this happens, the text is not copied to the clipboard. If I select text in iTerm and repeatedly type cmd-C, if I do that slowly (1 time per second), I get no sound. If I type cmd-C faster (2 or 3 times a second), then it beeps about once a second. This has been driving me nuts for months. I'm deep in my coding and suddenly get this sound. It makes me jump a bit. I can't turn down the volume on it. In System Settings, you can adjust the sound of the notification sound, but this sound is always at my standard volume level. I've set the options in iTerm for silent bell, so it's not that. I even did a full rebuild of my machine (fresh macOS install, re-downloaded all my apps, blew away ~/Library) just to try to get rid of this problem. It came back though. Today, I had the idea to close all running apps to see if that helped, and that's how I discovered that quitting Alfred solved the problem. Alfred version: 5.1.4 [2195] macOS version: 14.2
  3. I've just this morning upgraded from Alfred 4 to 5. I noticed immediately that web search is broken. If I activate Alfred and type a web search term and hit enter nothing happens. If I precede the search text with a question mark and a space then Alfred opens a browser tab to perform a web search. I do this a hundred times a day, so I'm reverting to Alfred 4. If I activate Alfred and type "hello world", I see in the drop down one option that says, "Search Google for 'hello world'" with an enter key icon. But pressing Enter has the same effect as pressing Esc.
  4. Well, Vero, consider me a very satisfied customer, again! 😉 Thank you, made my day! 😘
  5. You would also need a list box of the apps and websites that you wouldn't want this expansion to apply in. There's an excellent Mac app called Rocket that's an emoji picker that works this way. Unfortunately it's broken for M1 Macs. With Rocket you just type :sli (for example) to get a dropdown with the :slightly_smiling and :slightly_frowning options. You can choose which apps (like Terminal) and which sites (slack.com) you don't want this behaviour in. It's got the interface exactly perfectly right. I'm just a bit bummed that it's broken on the latest Macs. If Alfred could provide this shortcut then I'd get that high-speed emoji inside of Alfred (which I love 😍)
  6. I've followed the excellent suggestion in Joel's blog (joelcalifa.com/blog/alfred-emoji-snippet-pack) for making Alfred my emoji picker. It's awesome but it could be awesomer. To chose an emoji, I have to: Type ⌘-Space to activate Alfred S followed by space to select snippets (I've made "s" my shortcut for snippets) then type the name of the emoji I want What I would really like is something like pressing ":" to do the first of those two steps. Then I could type :rocket to get a 🚀. The emoji dropdown chooser (with Joel's Alfred emoji pack) is excellent. I would just like one keypress instead of three to get to it.
  7. I use snippets mainly for long words I can't be bothered typing. .em is my email address, .ad is the first line of my address. .ei is Eindhoven the city I live in. But I often want to google that. So I start Alfred and type ".ei [expecting the expansion] trains" but repeatedly get caught out 🤦 because my fingers have come to think of these long phrases in their snippet forms. Would it be possible to have snippet expansion occur within Alfred's input window? (You can always get around it if you really didn't want that, such as by typing .e i and going back to delete the space, in that very rare situation that you would want that)
  8. Thanks for your help, @deanishe and @Vero. I have resolved the issue. The application stealing focus was Spotlight. Both Spotlight and Alfred were configured to be activated by Cmd-space. Once I disabled this, the issue stopped. I had set up a new user but had forgotten to disable Spotlight. It looks like both were getting activated (but Spotlight somehow invisibly) and that it was holding onto focus once the browser had been activated, or perhaps leaving no application with keystroke focus (since it was not accepting and consuming those keystrokes itself).
  9. It's fine when I open the browser from other applications (such as from terminal or spotlight). It only occurs when browser tabs are opened from Alfred. Yes, still the same after reboot.
  10. If I perform a web search with Alfred, the browser opens with the search results but then won't accept any keypresses (e.g., to change the search string). I can navigate from the search results to another page but if I attempt to type any key there once giving a text input field focus I get an error beep and the keypress is ignored. (To hear the sound, open About This Mac and press any key.) If I alt-tab away to another application and back then keystrokes are re-enabled. I've tried changing my default browser; I get the same behaviour for Chrome and Safari. I'm on Big Sur 11.6 and Alfred 4.6 Build 1266. The bug happens every time.
  11. It's such a palaver to add an event to my calendar. I'd hate to think of the click count. Most appointments are just me and they're reminders. So if I could Alfred myself something like the following then it would be a godsend: "reminder thursday noon lunch with Fernando" Even better if it would add it then open my cal app and leave me looking at the created event. Then I could choose to modify it (duration, attendees) or 95% of the time just leave it as it is. I use Alfred for everything that makes me efficient and calendar event creation is the last big "nuisance factor" in using my comp as a productivity tool PS. I'm sure you could think of a much better slicker implementation but you get the idea! 🙂
  12. [Admin note: We do not recommend blindly running commands found on the internet. Make sure that you understand the commands you're running and the impact they can have on your Mac.] I followed the instructions around rebuilding the index without luck. Vero helped diagnose that it was the underlying Spotlight indexing that was at fault and that while my Spotlight searches were broken Alfred was going to have the same issues. I googled for "fix broken spotlight" and basically tried every suggestion I could find. One of them worked after also rebooting. The commands I tried: sudo mdutil -E / sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -seed -lint -r -f -v -dump -domain local -domain system -domain user -domain network killing SystemUIServer via Activity Monitor rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Spotlight.plist sudo mdutil -i on / Checking that /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.Spotlight.plist and /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist were present and uncorrupted sudo mdutil -Ea sudo mdutil -ai off sudo mdutil -ai on
  13. Hi Vero, thanks for that. I have followed the steps carefully, including doing an alfred 'reload' about rebuilding the indices but I have the same issue. Are there further troubleshooting steps I can take? Thanks, Steve
  14. I also have this issue. Alfred finds some apps but not others and doesn't find any files. For the applications that can't be found it appears to be missing metadata: Starting Diagnostics... File: 'dosbox.app' Path: '/Applications' ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file cache database... ✅ File cache integrity is ok ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if file is readable... ✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file. ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS... ✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive ----------------------------------------------------------- Check direct file metadata... ✅ Direct metadata available Display Name: DOSBox Other Names: Content Type: com.apple.application-bundle Last Used: 2020-03-12 11:31:29 +0000 ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ❌ macOS metadata missing essential items kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2020-03-12 11:31:29 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2020-03-12 11:31:29 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = 0 kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0 kMDItemFSIsStationery = 0 kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "dosbox.app" kMDItemFSNodeCount = 1 kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 1 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" ----------------------------------------------------------- ❌ Troubleshooting failed Another with the same: Starting Diagnostics... File: 'Google Chrome.app' Path: '/Applications' ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file cache database... ✅ File cache integrity is ok ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if file is readable... ✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file. ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS... ✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive ----------------------------------------------------------- Check direct file metadata... ✅ Direct metadata available Display Name: Google Chrome Other Names: Content Type: com.apple.application-bundle Last Used: 2021-02-26 10:35:22 +0000 ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ❌ macOS metadata missing essential items kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2021-02-26 10:35:22 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2019-12-14 03:29:08 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 1024 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = 1 kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0 kMDItemFSIsStationery = 0 kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "Google Chrome.app" kMDItemFSNodeCount = 2 kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 0 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 0 kMDItemFSSize = 2 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" ----------------------------------------------------------- ❌ Troubleshooting failed Slightly different for file (rather than application): Starting Diagnostics... File: 'Change of contact details.gsheet' Path: '/Users/steve/Google Drive' ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file cache database... ✅ File cache integrity is ok ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if file is readable... ✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file. ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS... ✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive ----------------------------------------------------------- Check direct file metadata... ⚠️ Direct metadata available, but content type may be incorrect Display Name: Change of contact details.gsheet Other Names: Content Type: dyn.ah62d4rv4ge80s65kqzw1k Last Used: 2021-01-27 07:16:14 +0000 ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ❌ macOS metadata missing essential items kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2021-01-27 07:16:14 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2021-01-27 07:16:14 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = 0 kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0 kMDItemFSIsStationery = 0 kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "Change of contact details.gsheet" kMDItemFSNodeCount = 176 kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 176 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" ----------------------------------------------------------- ❌ Troubleshooting failed
  15. Hi there, Maybe I am missing something obvious? I can't see any way to delete a custom web search once it has been created (both Alfred 3 and 4). Am I overlooking something? Many thanks, Steve
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