PeterTrain

Alfred is not picking up certain apps in my /Application folder that are found by Spotlight. I have /Applications as the first item in my "Search Scope" settings. I can't see a pattern, as there are many apps that are found, but certain which are not. Out of the first 20 applications in my /Application folder, 7 are not found! The one that irritated me and got me investigating is the Calculator app that comes preinstalled with mac. On closer inspection of the first few pre-installed apps, I see that App Store, Automator, Books, Contacts, Calendar and Dictionary are not getting found. Things like Garageband, iMovie and so on are getting found. I have tried running Clear Application Cache and Reubild macOS Metadata in the Alfred settings, but to no avail. I have parallels running and had initially noticed that there was a huge amount of noise from Parallels apps that interfered. For example, when I typed "Cal" Alfred would find various apps in each of my parallels instances, but not the mac apps (Calculator and Calendar. I have subsequently figured out how to stop Spotlight from indexing these Parallels apps and removed that noise, but this also hasn't helped. Am at a bit of a loss regarding how to resolve and I am seriously considering habituating myself to use Spotlight instead of Alfred.