johnhamill

This is looking more and more like a bug in Mac OSx - a lot of your users may come across this problem. See below another example of the Spotlight popup bar not working, but Alfred and Command-F do. FYI, I am running Big Sur (11.3): Video link 2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t3j1m4ml5odbl8d/2nd example-Spotlight v Cmd-F.mov?dl=0

Alfred can find the file now, but it took a long time for me to solve it because of the issue I am trying to explain. When Alfred could not find the file, I consulted the Alfred indexing troubleshooting page. Throughout the page, Spotlight is referenced: I paraphrase, "You should check first that the file can be found in Spotlight as Alfred bases its results on Spotlight's indices". This is what I did. And Spotlight did NOT list the file in its results. I kept trying to index, but Spotlight still did not list the file. After some time, I decided to look at the Command-F search (just in case). And it was listed in that search. I went back to Alfred and Alfred did now list it. So now I have the situation where Alfred lists the file, the "Command-F" search lists the file, but Spotlight (the pop-up bar) does NOT list the file. I enclose a video link demonstrating this. Because it took me so long to sort out this problem (by using the Spotlight popup bar only), all I wanted to know was (in the future), can I disregard the "Spotlight popup bar" search in favour of the "Command-F" search when solving these sorts of problems. I hope this more clearly illustrates my question, and thank you once again for your assistance. Video link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uk7ryqowenuzysi/Spotlight v Command-F.mov?dl=0

I always use the "spacebar trick" to search. I understand everything about indexing (dragging the file in and out of the Spotlight preference pane, mdutil etc.). For future problems, I would still like to know what Alfred results most equate to - the Command-F search results or the Spotlight popup bar results. I ask this because these Mac "searches" provide different results. My first step going forward (in the case that Alfred is not providing expected results) is to disregard the results in the Spotlight popup bar and rely only on the Command-F search results. Would that be a correct "first step" in solving an "Alfred search problem". Thanks.

Sometimes Alfred cannot find files which it should. In such as case, I immediately check Spotlight to see if it can find the file as Alfred is based on Spotlight's index. This occurred recently. I had several files on the system containing the word "Citizen Kane": Citizen Kane (1941).mp4 Citizen Kane (1941)-Extra01-Interview with Orson Welles.mp4 Citizen Kane (1941)-Extra02-History and Hearst.mp4 .... etc I activated the Spotlight popup bar and searched for the first file in the list above. Spotlight separates its results into movies, contacts, definitions, bookmarks & history etc. Referring to the files above, the results page did not display the first file in the list above, "Citizen Kane (1941).mp4". It did list some of the other files that contained the text "Citizen Kane". I then did a search using Command-F and this did find the first file on the list above. My question is: The results are different for the Spotlight popup bar and the Command-F search in the example above. Does Alfred base its results on the Command-F search only? It may be that the Spotlight popup bar only displays what it thinks is relevant (or maybe it limits it results?). Thank you for your assistance.

My bad. Rarely use the shebang (although it is best practice) as all my scripts are run from the command line. Thanks.

Mac OSx 11.3 Alfred 4.6 (1266) The error I receive is a Posix spawn error (relevant screenshot enclosed). I enclose a screenshot of the permissions I have set. I have set them to superuser/owner (rws). rwx permissions should be adequate, but I decided to run it as superuser (just in case). I have also checked the permissions on the recursive directories down to the workflow itself (all 'rwx' for the owner 'johnhamill'). The permissions on directory of the workflow itself also seem fine (screenshot enclosed). The script runs successfully when NOT used in an external script. Workflow and screenshot link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/caso70jllct0efu/AAAc-qedy24K6q7idURYjImka?dl=0 Thanks.

I am a diehard user of the "vi editor". I would like to use this editor to edit scripts directly (and not within the Alfred script window). I thought I might be able to stick with the"vi editor" if I were to use "External script". I attempted this but ran into problems. Reading the forum post below however, it doesn't look like this is possible (because of single arguments and whitespace etc - see the very last post). What I am doing at present is copying and pasting from Alfred to the "vi editor" and vice versa. There is also the option of editing the info.plist file directly - but I think that is a little too dangerous really. Thanks for your help.

I believe there may be a misunderstanding here. I want to search within files for certain text. I want to specify the search start point within the directory tree. The 'in' keyword searches file contents across the whole system (see enclosed image). I may be just missing something here - but I cannot see how the above answers can help me with this. Can you point me to a workflow or more documentation? Thanks. https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ol5113lyf369p9/Screenshot 2021-11-08 at 22.25.16.png?dl=0

Use of the 'in' keyword is mentioned on the File search page. https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/file-search/ That is the only mention of it that I can find. I have tried on the forums but the word 'in' is just too common for a search to make any sense. Can this keyword be used with any other Alfred objects? For example, I would like to be able to search the contents of all files from a certain point in my directory tree. Is this possible? Is there any documentation on this? Thank you for your assistance.

I knew it had to be simple 😀 Thanks.

I'm using a hotkey in a workflow and wish the hotkey to execute "only if the Finder has focus". You have to drag an app to the window to do this, and the Finder in Big Sur does not seem to have a Finder binary. I seem to remember in the past that there was a Finder binary. Attempted a few other apps in the utilities folder, but none "represents" the Finder. I can reverse it of course and exclude all applications for this hotkey –but that seems a little bit of overkill. There is probably a simple solution that I am missing - Any thoughts would be appreciated.

My bad! I work with video editing quite a lot and I assumed that fade very slow meant "fade out" very slow like a video fade out. I have downloaded the example workflows and I can now see how it works. Thanks for your help and apologies for "my assumption".

Nothing happens at all no matter what you set the fade to be. I would expect it to show the message and then slowly fade from the screen. I have to manually press escape to clear the message from the screen. This isn't a big deal. I was just reporting what I thought might be a bug. Being a good web citizen 🙂

Please see enclosed. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/caso70jllct0efu/AAAc-qedy24K6q7idURYjImka?dl=0

Mac OSx 11.3 Alfred 4.6 (1266) Object: Output/Large Type When selecting the fade option, no fading occurs. Replicated after reboot of iMac with only two objects - hotkey trigger and large type output object. This seems to have occurred before -