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Right, sorry, the error is thrown with the "video" volume. Can you check the permission on "video"? About "Magic", I'm not sure why Alfred can't search in it since Spotlight can. Maybe I'm going to give you a trivial suggestion, but could you try to perform a fresh install of Alfred? You should not only remove the application, but also the various files associated with it.

Since it throws a 403 error, the only thing I can think of is some sort of permissions problem. How are permissions set on the Magic shared folder?

Wait. Is the volume you’re trying to index named “video” or is it “Magic”?

Have you performed the previous step and created the `/private/var/db/Spotlight-V100/Volumes/` folder? Which connection type are you using? AFP, SMB or others?

Ok, I found a solution. I hope it could also help others. I was trying to enable indexing on my network volume by typing in the terminal mdutil -i on /Volumes/myvolume-name but unfortunately the terminal always responded with "Indexing Disabled". After some research I found the following solution: In order to enable spotlight indexing - and therefore be able to take advantage of Alfred - on network drives I had to create this folder with root permissions: sudo mkdir -p /private/var/db/Spotlight-V100/Volumes/ And then re-enable the indexing with sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/myvolume-name You can immediately check the indexing status by typing something in spotlight; a progress bar titled "indexing" should appear on top of the results. Bear in mind that I'm not using the latest operating system, but macOS 10.12.6, and I'm not sure if the aforementioned method works with other versions.

As a matter of fact, no. Neither spotlight can find the files/folders in the external Volume. How should I procede in this case?

I'm also experiencing this issue. My external Volumes are mounted with the AFP protocol and one of them - the one I'm interested in the most - has been added into the "Search Scope" list, but I can't "find" anything from that volume by typing into Alfred.