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If by web bookmarks you mean web searches, those are stored in Alfred’s preferences. But if you never set up preferences syncing in Alfred (to Dropbox for example), they can only be retrieved from a Time Machine backup. if you don’t have Time Machine set up, stop what you’re doing and do it immediately. It will save you from these headaches.

If you moved to an MBP with a smaller screen, naturally there is less space for the icons. The notch also takes up space in the menubar.

Alfred does not show files and folders by default, like Spotlight does. Instead, press the Spacebar to trigger File Search, and then type the name of the file or folder.

The Digital Color Meter app that comes with macOS does this.

Unless you enabled it, Alfred doesn't show files in its default results. Use the 'open' keyword to find files, or press the Spacebar before typing the filename.

You can type ?hotkeys to get a list of all hotkeys, and opening an item opens the Alfred Preferences page where you can change it. This is documented on https://www.alfredapp.com/help/getting-started/preferences-search/.

So nothing happens when you search for something and immediately press Return? There's this option in Preferences > Appearance > Options: But as the description says, it's just visual. Pressing Return should open the top result regardless.

Why not use the "lucky" keyword to go to the first Google result? Unfortunately Google puts a page in between, so you'll have to press Tab and Enter to go to the actual page. Or switch to DuckDuckGo and simply type "! your search query"

The Mac App Store version is very outdated. Download Alfred 4 from https://www.alfredapp.com.

@rehashed Have you tried typing only the first few characters of the application name and choosing the application you want? After a few times Alfred will put the application as the first result, and you will commit to muscle memory which characters to type. For example, for Slack you would type "sl" and press Enter.

Given that /usr/bin/php was removed in macOS 12.0 and it's still in the dropdown, probably none until Alfred drops support for macOS versions that still ship those binaries.

Are you sure the feature is still enabled?

As mentioned in Andrew's second screenshot, Alfred always copies the selected text to the clipboard. I think even when you use the "Restore previous clipboard item" option, the selected text will still be in your clipboard history. The "Mark item as transient" option only makes it so the modified text doesn't show up in the clipboard history as well.

Where is the download link?

Are you sure that's how you searched for folders before? Alfred doesn't return files and folders by default, you have to press space bar and then type the folder name. If that did work before, maybe you don't have Folders checked under Default Results.