XanderPSON

3 hours ago, deanishe said:

 

When you say "native Mac apps", do you actually mean "first-party apps"?

 

Or can you find all your Java apps, but none of your Cocoa apps?

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!