XanderPSON

Correct, I meant the first-party apps. And actually, I may have just fixed it as I was preparing to respond in full. I opened up my Applications folder to scan for a list of first-party apps, and once I did, suddenly I was able to find Messages and Dictionary. Notes and Photos took a while longer to finally appear, but now they're there. I wonder if opening the Applications folder in Finder forced a reindex of the applications when it wasn't doing it normally otherwise? Either way, the issue seems to now have resolved itself. Thanks for responding and forcing me to investigate, which made it work!

Hey Alfred community, I was having some issues with my Alfred search function (I forget what originally) so I followed the numerous guides and steps online here to rebuild my macOS metadata from the advanced tab, clear the cache, and to enter "reload" in the Alfred bar. I'm now encountering an issue where although Alfred can find all of my third-party apps, it cannot find any native Mac apps, like Notes, Settings, Photos, Dictionary, Terminal, etc. I can find all of these just fine in Spotlight. This is very peculiar and I can't find any reference of it in other help topics, so I'm posting this. I'm a software engineer by trade, so debugging software all day is my forte, yet I'm stumped on this. Has anyone run into this same issue and found a working solution? I downloaded the Alfred Metadata Tool and ran it on the Notes app, here are the result (I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to be looking for): /Applications/Notes.app Internal File Metadata ====================== Display Name: Notes Alt Names: Notes.app File Type: com.apple.application-bundle Comments: Keywords: Last Used: 2019-02-12 20:58:54 +0000 Raw mdls File Metadata ====================== _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "Notes.app" _kMDItemEngagementData = <09000000 002209c1 410002> _kMDItemRenderData = <09000000 002209c1 41002c> kMDItemAlternateNames = ( "Notes.app" ) kMDItemAppStoreCategory = "Productivity" kMDItemAppStoreCategoryType = "public.app-category.productivity" kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier = "com.apple.Notes" kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2018-08-21 03:40:38 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2018-08-21 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2019-02-09 04:40:48 +0000 kMDItemContentType = "com.apple.application-bundle" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "com.apple.application-bundle", "com.apple.localizable-name-bundle", "com.apple.application-bundle", "public.directory", "public.executable", "com.apple.application", "public.item", "com.apple.package", "com.apple.bundle" ) kMDItemDateAdded = 2018-10-03 07:09:40 +0000 kMDItemDateAdded_Ranking = 2018-10-03 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemDisplayName = "Notes" kMDItemExecutableArchitectures = ( "x86_64" ) kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2019-02-09 04:40:48 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2018-08-21 03:40:38 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null) kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 1 kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null) kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "Notes.app" kMDItemFSNodeCount = 1 kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 0 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 0 kMDItemFSSize = 14259295 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2019-02-12 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemKind = "Application" kMDItemLanguages = ( de, he, "en_AU", ar, el, ja, en, uk, "es_419", "zh_CN", es, da, it, sk, "pt_PT", ms, sv, cs, ko, "yue_CN", Base, no, hu, "zh_HK", tr, pl, "zh_TW", "en_GB", vi, ru, "fr_CA", fr, fi, id, nl, th, pt, ro, hr, hi, ca ) kMDItemLastUsedDate = 2019-02-12 20:58:54 +0000 kMDItemLastUsedDate_Ranking = 2019-02-12 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemLogicalSize = 14259295 kMDItemPhysicalSize = 7286784 kMDItemUseCount = 4 kMDItemUsedDates = ( "2019-02-12 08:00:00 +0000" ) kMDItemVersion = "4.6" Thanks!