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Thanks! 1. Why Safari? It lives on my System volume and shows up BOTH in my Spotlight search AND in my Alfred search -- no problem there. Are you just using it as a test case of some sort? In any event, what the utility reports is appended. I see nothing untoward or revealing. Let me know if you do. 2. I do use Parallels occasionally, but not on the Mac in question. (Nevertheless, I'm glad you solved the problem you were having.) APPENDED from AlfredMedataTool: /Applications/Safari.app Internal File Metadata ====================== Display Name: Safari Alt Names: Safari.app File Type: com.apple.application-bundle Comments: Keywords: Last Used: 2020-02-18 01:40:17 +0000 Raw mdls File Metadata ====================== _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "Safari.app" kMDItemAlternateNames = ( "Safari.app" ) kMDItemAppStoreCategory = "Productivity" kMDItemAppStoreCategoryType = "public.app-category.productivity" kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier = "com.apple.Safari" kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2020-01-23 18:29:53 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2020-01-23 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2020-02-05 12:17:38 +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 = 2020-02-05 12:15:19 +0000 kMDItemDateAdded_Ranking = 2020-02-05 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemDisplayName = "Safari" kMDItemExecutableArchitectures = ( "x86_64" ) kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2020-02-05 12:17:38 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2020-01-23 18:29:53 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null) kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 1 kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null) kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "Safari.app" kMDItemFSNodeCount = 1 kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 0 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 0 kMDItemFSSize = 26309192 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2020-02-18 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemKind = "Application" kMDItemLanguages = ( de, he, ar, el, ja, en, uk, "es_419", "zh_CN", es, da, it, sk, "pt_PT", ms, sv, cs, ko, Base, no, hu, tr, pl, "zh_TW", vi, ru, fr, fi, id, nl, th, pt, ro, hr, hi, ca ) kMDItemLastUsedDate = 2020-02-18 01:40:17 +0000 kMDItemLastUsedDate_Ranking = 2020-02-18 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemLogicalSize = 26309192 kMDItemPhysicalSize = 21012480 kMDItemUseCount = 5 kMDItemUsedDates = ( "2020-02-05 05:00:00 +0000", "2020-02-11 05:00:00 +0000", "2020-02-17 05:00:00 +0000" ) kMDItemVersion = "13.0.5" /EOF

Thanks! As noted, I was comparing results of Spotlight search (Cmd-Space on my machine) to results of Alfred search (which I invoke via "Alfred Hotkey"). From your reply I'm guessing that Alfred should be able to find an application that's sitting on an attached non-System volume. How do I configure it to do so? Maybe relevant: In Alfred Preferences, under File Search > Advanced, my home folder is set to the standard Unix tilde. Probably not relevant: In Alfred Preferences I also have "Quick File Search" mode enabled but I rarely use it.

So … to recap … If Spotlight can find an application that's sitting on an attached non-System volume and Alfred cannot find the same application, whose fault is it and what is the fix? (Running Alfred 4.0.8.1135 on High Sierra 10.13.6.)