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This makes sense. Let me ask differently. Any way to emulate how the Alfred file search feature but results show up in a Grid View?

I tried the Thumbnail Navigation. In that I need to press a keyword > search for a folder > then it shows it's thumbnails in the folder (and i can search within them). Any way i can just press a keyword and it shows all files (with thumbnails) and then i can search within them. This is the way the Alfred's default file search works but it doesnt have thumbnails of course (released in grid view)

I didn't mean to have it as default file on search result. I just want an object that works the same way as Copy Image to Clipboard, but for all files. So when an image (or or it's path) is passed, it copies it to clipboard.

I want to paste it to a specific app. Could be slack, notes, email, anything...

Trying to setup a workflow where pressing enter would copy the file to clipboard. I know this can be accomplished via Universal Actions but I just want to press enter on the results and have it be copied to the clipboard. The `Copy File to Clipboard` doesn't show up in `Action in Alfred` and neither in Automaton Tasks (if only has Copy Image to Clipboard). How can I accomplish this?

@Stephen_C is there a way to do this grid view search, but for the entire file system (the same way Alfred search files in the default mode)? I tried setting the folder content to `~` or `/` but it was only showing files in the that specific directory and not the child directories

I like these "Simple" post series from you @Stephen_C. Thanks for sharing!

Is there a programatic way to flush this cache? I have a script filter that reads a directory with 100s of files and builds the results for the script filter. these files don't change often and hence I was creating another file where I would cache these results. however, when sometimes this directory has addition/removal of files and I have to refresh the cache file as well. Right now, I'm doing this refresh with a script. Any way to use this cache feature and flush the cache when needed. Not sure if the options listed help without me open the workflow in alfred preferences. ``` Editing the Script Filter object. Clicking Flush in the debugger. Reloading the workflow. ```

If you are really paranoid (not saying you are), another thing you can do is install LuLu (open source firewall) that can block outgoing network connections from any app. So any malicious script can't get data out of your machine. However, you'd lose out on the availability of updates to Alfred app and workflows (from Alfred gallery), so you'd have to do that manually by downloading app and workflow updates. It's usually not recommended unless you know what you are doing, because it can block some connections from apps by mistake and can take you sometime to figure out.

We need more educational posts like this lol! Thanks for sharing!

Seems like the shortcut `Upload to Imgur` is broken. Tons of threads on reddit asking the same thing. Anyway, as a makeshift (or maybe permanent) solution, I moved to ImgBB to upload pics. Here is a quick workflow I put together @vitorI face a few issue when building this. When using RunSript with python (/usr/bin/python3), does Alfred use a virtual env or global? I tried installing package (`requests`) via pip3 and macOS complained with the below error. I had to override it with `pip3 install requests --break-system-packages`. Any guidance on how to setup python correctly to work with Alfred? Use the default python? Homebrew? How would virtual envs work. (this may not be an Alfred issue but your guidance might help) ``` error: externally-managed-environment × This environment is externally managed ╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try brew install xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to install. If you wish to install a non-brew-packaged Python package, create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv. Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. ```

Oh, got it 🙁 . I supposed I'll have to have either decode everything as base64 or some other trick. How do I extract that one arg out though?

@vitorcould you please guide me a little here? Any example should work.

No script way would be to trigger ⌃+⌘+F via Output>Dispatch Key Combo. Add a short delay in the after launching the app