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  1. Ok...I'm still having problems. Yesterday, it found items after reindexing and restarting my MBP. Today, when it wouldn't find the same folders it found yesterday, I would search in Spotlight. The Folders were found. Immediately, I could do a search for the same folders in Alfred and it would, sometimes, now find the folder. Other times, it wouldn't. I'm still bothered and perplexed by this. Does anyone have any thoughts?
  2. ...and now it works and finds the folders I couldn't find before. Weird.
  3. Lately, I've been having problems again. I did everything mentioned here by reindexing my laptop. I "reload" and leave things alone so it can get done. I restart the computer. I can still not find certain items in Alfred but I can find them in Spotlight. Any guidance?
  4. So, I took the steps mentioned in this thread to reindex the MacOS metadata. I started the process in terminal and get the following screen. How do I know when the reindexing process is done? Do I just wait an hour (or more) and then press any key to finish? Also, I can see the progress of the reindexing by performing a search in Spotlight? I'm a bit unsure about that. Just look for a file I previously couldn't find with Alfred? The issue for me is that Spotlight finds everything while Alfred doesn't. I'm reindexing to see if that, hopefully, fixes the problem. Some additional information...I use Box.com and am able to find most folders in Alfred. Some, however, are not found. I sync the files locally to my HD. Thanks,
  5. To be clear, it was finding the files, it was not selecting them. It would only open the enclosing folder but would not highlight the file/document within the folder as it did before. For instance, I have the Box Sync folder which contains all my client folders (with files in this folders). Now, if I search for the folder for a particular client by typing "find last name", the Box Sync folder opens but the client folder is not highlighted. Before, I could do a search with Find and it would open the Box Sync folder and take me right to my client's folder. I have hundreds of clients so it was very useful. I use the "Open" command (space before my search term) and it finds folders beautifully. However, if I do that for a document, it will, of course, open the document. I don't always want that. I'd prefer "finding" it with the Find command b/c sometimes I want to act ON the file and not IN the file. In other words, FIND used to work for Folders and documents/files. Now, it works for documents/files only. OPEN works great for folders for me but I don't always want to open documents/files. My workaround is to use the OPEN command for folders and FIND for documents/files. FIND used to just work for both. Now that I've made my explanation potentially more circuitous and long, do you recommend I still follow your previous suggestion? I don't want to "break" what now currently works. Thanks Andrew!
  6. A few weeks ago, I was using Alfred App with no problems whatsoever. It was great finding files in my Box Sync folder on my Mac. When I executed the Find command, it would navigate to the file I was searching for and would select it. I switched to Box Drive and realized Alfred can't work with Box Drive. I just switched back to Box Sync. Now, whenever I execute a Find command, it doesn't navigate to my intended search result (it appears that this happens especially when the intended result is in my Box Sync folder). Often times, it will open the folder containing my intended result but I then have to navigate to the file I want within the folder. It's annoying. It's like it's missing the last step. Does anyone have any ideas? Am I being clear enough? Thanks in advance.
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