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I've gone ahead and set my Alfred folder on Dropbox to "make available offline." I think that's what you mean? I'll report back on if that fixes the problem. Thanks!

I'm not sure. Do you mean where are my preference located? If so, they reside in Dropbox.

I'm experiencing a bug about 85% to 100% of the time when I attempt to right click on an item in a workflow and click Edit Notes. Basically, I'll type something into the Notes box, and often it simply won't do anything after I click the Save button. A note doesn't get created. Even if I try it again and again. There are times when only restarting Alfred will help. But sometimes even then I've got to attempt to create a note multiple times. This is a newer issue, possibly only since the latest version or two of Alfred. * Alfred version: Alfred 5.0.6 * macOS version: Ventura 13.1. This is a newer MacBook Pro M1 (2021)

I'm glad to hear that workflow was working for you. Means I'm not going crazy--my MacBook is. Wow, @vitor that workflow you created works beautifully. Thank you for creating it. It was good to study the setup, so I have a better understanding of how this type of workflow works. I was even able to add in another (I guess you would call it) argument to add another folder for PNGs. Worked great! I like this Automation style of workflow a lot better. I just need to read up on this more and practice some simple ones so I start to get how it works. Thanks for getting me started.

@vitor Thank you for your reply. I hadn't thought about uploading via a third party service. Hopefully this Dropover app link will work so you can see the workflow as it currently stands: https://dropover.cloud/cd3cea I modified it from Jono Hunt's original to add more folders with names I needed. But otherwise, I haven't adjusted the script coding in any way beyond changing the names. I did try to go back and find where I originally downloaded that workflow, but none of the links for Jono are still active and I can't recall the name of it, so I wasn't sure how to search for it in the forums or on the webs. When I go to use the hot key for this workflow I open up a Finder window and as far as I can tell the current folder is the active/current window. So for example, I've not switched to Airdrop, etc. For testing purposes, I'm now just trying to create the folders at this path: /Users/nephelle/Desktop/Test. Just a guess, but could the script simply need a different, more clarifying name for Finder, so it's finding it properly? Trying to learn from the articles y'all posted and getting really confused, but maybe something like Finder Window vs. just the below: tell application "Finder" Thank you for mentioning the great resources!

Thanks, @Stephen_C, I'll take a look at those. One thing I'm finding confusing is what is meant by "as alias". When I think of an alias, I think of a shortcut "alias" folder on a Mac. Is that what it means in this context of Apple Scripts? Is there a spot on the web where I can look up such terms to both learn them and also how to use them in the context of script writing? For example, I'm wondering if I can change "currentWindow" in the original workflow to "activeWindow" or similar to ensure it's trying to apply the workflow in the active frontmost window.

I googled "class fvtg" to see if I could learn some more about this error message and found this conversation on github. https://github.com/rkanter/Open-iTerm-or-Terminal-Here.../issues/2. And that convo links to this explanation: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/37769/in-terminal-can-i-find-out-the-current-finder-folder/37772#37772. I'm struggling to understand all the terminology, as I don't have a coding background, but it kinda makes me wonder if it doesn't like my pathways or pathnames. I'd initially think it's grumpy about the fact that I'm trying to use this workflow on my external drive, but I also tried to use it on my internal hard drive and on my Mac desktop and it didn't work there either.

I do have the workflow, but I don't know how to attach it to an Alfred forum post since it's not an image. I've not attempted to use an Automation Task before. Will read through what you linked to. Update: read through the Automation article and went through some set up steps. It will allow me to create a new folder, but I don't see a way to rename folders with it. Are you aware of a way to rename folders with the automation method, @vitor

I believe the workflow is by Jono Hunt. It creates a folder in the current Finder window and renames it. I set it up years ago to create about 5 folders and rename them. Suddenly it stopped working today and is throwing up an error that I don't understand, which you can see in the debugger in this screenshot attached. I wondered if any of you have ideas I can try in order to get this running again.

Thank you!

Thank you for the update, Vitor. How do we upgrade to the latest version?

But even if I somehow find those newer missing workflows, I'm still not clear on how to actually add them back into Alfred. Is it just that I have to take the "user workflow" folders and dump them into the Alfred.Preferences Workflow folder in Dropbox? Is that the correct solution?

If you mean the Dropbox article you linked to about how to restore deleted files, I'm not sure that applies to my situation. My workflows weren't deleted from Dropbox. So when I go into Deleted Files in Dropbox, the workflows I'm trying to find aren't in there. My concern is maybe my newer workflows I'm trying to find maybe were saved somewhere other than in my Dropbox Alfred folder location. That's the only thing I can think of for why they aren't showing up in Alfred with all of my other older workflows. Is there some way I can use Alfred or even Mac Spotlight to do a keyword search for one of the newer workflow files? Like maybe with the name of the actual workflow or the keyword I use to execute the workflow or something like that?

How do you "restore" exactly? I'm syncing to the only place I recall having synced to in the past, my Dropbox Alfred folder. Basically all I did when I reinstalled Alfred and set everything back up is go to Advanced tab and update my syncing preferences folder in there. Is there more to restoration than that?