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Hi, I'd like to confirm that after all the steps in the previous thread. I still wasn't able to fix the search function, and needed to switch to Spotlight. My conclusion previously is that there's an issue with the index (since HoudahSpot also behaves weirdly), but the issue comes from nowhere (I wasn't doing major system updates) and cannot be fixed by rebuilding it.
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32 minutes ago, Andrew said:
@Trey if you create a simple workflow File Filter with the scope of that filter set to this specific folder only, is anything found?
Alfred does queries to the macOS metadata, but the top level query can be quite complex to refine the results to your specific configuration. Creating a file filter will create a much more targeted and simple filter over the macOS metadata. Perhaps also try fiddling with the file filter to narrow down file types to see if you can work around what is happening under macOS' hood.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I tried using the default "Dynamic File Search" and "File filter from keyword and reveal" workflows. When the folder is specified the results remain the same - the newly added file can be found but the old files cannot.
There are also cases that a folder cannot be found by Alfred (again, it can be found by Spotlight), but a newly added file in it can be found.
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9 minutes ago, Andrew said:
@Trey Could you try popping a brand new simple text file in that folder and see if it is found? (leave it a few mins to index). That will at least see if that folder is being indexed at the moment.
Also, are you using Alfred's file search mode (by spacebar prefixing your Alfred query)?
Yes, the newly added files (or files that I recently opened) immediately show up in Alfred's search results. In this case, the old unsearchable files in the very folder remain unsearchable.
Yes, I always used the file search mode.
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Hi,
I am using Alfred 4.3.3 on macOS Big Sur 11.2.3
My Alfred cannot find some files recently, previously it worked perfectly.
Those files are inside a folder that is synced by Dropbox or OneDrive. All the files are stored locally, spotlight can find and open them without troubles. There is more than 800 subfolders in that folder. Other folders in the cloud drive directory can be searched by Alfred.
I followed the official troubleshooting process, the diagnostic tool shows no problems with a file that cannot be found by Alfred (log attached below).
I tried to rebuild the metadata several times (with full disk access), in the middle of the rebuilding process, Alfred can find some files, shortly after the rebuilding ended, Alfred cannot find those files again.
If you open a file recently, Alfred can find it.
mdfind can find them.
Please let me know if anyone has any insight. Thanks!
Starting Diagnostics... File: 'Smith et al. - Unknown - OFFLINE BILINGUAL WORD VECTORS, ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE INVERTED SOFTMAX.pdf' Path: '/Users/stay/OneDrive/Zotero/storage/SCMMWDJE' ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file cache database... ✅ File cache integrity is ok ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if file is readable... ✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file. ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS... ✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive ----------------------------------------------------------- Check direct file metadata... ✅ Direct metadata available Display Name: Smith et al. - Unknown - OFFLINE BILINGUAL WORD VECTORS, ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE INVERTED SOFTMAX.pdf Other Names: Content Type: com.adobe.pdf Last Used: ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ✅ Metadata contains required items _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "Smith et al. - Unknown - OFFLINE BILINGUAL WORD VECTORS, ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE INVERTED SOFTMAX.pdf" kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2019-09-22 14:57:26 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2019-09-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2019-09-22 14:57:26 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate_Ranking = 2019-09-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentType = "com.adobe.pdf" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "com.adobe.pdf", "public.data", "public.item", "public.composite-content", "public.content" ) kMDItemCreator = "LaTeX with hyperref package" kMDItemDateAdded = 2021-04-15 01:20:11 +0000 kMDItemDateAdded_Ranking = 2021-04-15 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemDisplayName = "Smith et al. - Unknown - OFFLINE BILINGUAL WORD VECTORS, ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE INVERTED SOFTMAX.pdf" kMDItemDocumentIdentifier = 0 kMDItemEncodingApplications = ( "pdfTeX-1.40.17" ) kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2019-09-22 14:57:26 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2019-09-22 14:57:26 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = 0 kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0 kMDItemFSIsStationery = 0 kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "Smith et al. - Unknown - OFFLINE BILINGUAL WORD VECTORS, ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE INVERTED SOFTMAX.pdf" kMDItemFSNodeCount = 530915 kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 530915 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2019-09-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemKind = "PDF document" kMDItemLogicalSize = 530915 kMDItemNumberOfPages = 10 kMDItemPageHeight = 792 kMDItemPageWidth = 612 kMDItemPhysicalSize = 532480 kMDItemSecurityMethod = "None" kMDItemVersion = "1.5" ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file is in search scope... ✅ File exists within Alfred's default search scope ----------------------------------------------------------- ✅ Troubleshooting passed
[Solution Provided] Alfred can not find some files in OneDrive
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I started this thread April last year before the macOS Monterey came out. My issue wasn't solved even with numerous rebuilding index and reinstalling periodically for months. Other 3rd party search tools like HoudahSpot doesn't work either, only spotlight works. I gave up on solving this issues.
After the recent wave of macOS Monterey issues came out, I thought I might try upgrading the system to it. It can't be any worse, right?
After upgrading, no luck, the issue still exists. Then I tried to rebuilding the index in the new system, and reset the search scope to '\', it works magically!! I hope it doesn't break itself in the near future.