olivierroymd

This unfortunately did not work. It is very strange. I have to do the touch command every couple of hours. Someone else got an idea?

Hello, I rely on Alfred a lot for my work. I handle a lot of PDFs and it's the primary reason I use Alfred (for quickly opening PDFs). A few weeks ago, I started noticing that my PDFs could not be found even though I changed absolutely nothing in my workflow except that my PDF library changed location on my computer (was previously in my Google Drive and now located in /user/Zotero/storage/random_folderID/*.pdf). I can always find the files using Spotlight. I rebuilt my Spotlight index several times but did not do anything. I have reinstalled Alfred and reseted the preferences, no effect. I have cleared Alfred cache several times, no effect. I also cleared the Alfred knowledge several times, no effect. The folders that contains PDF is in the Search scope. I asked the Zotero guys and they insisted this had nothing to do with them. I have searched a lot and found out that this may have to do with the recency of use of the file and might be related to some extended attributes of the files. However, the metadata checker built-in with Alfred shows no problem: For example: Starting Diagnostics... File: 'PotvinO_2017_NeuroImage.pdf' Path: '/Users/olivierroy/Zotero/storage/6P9LWBDL' ----------------------------------------------------------- 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: PotvinO_2017_NeuroImage.pdf Other Names: Content Type: com.adobe.pdf Last Used: ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ✅ Metadata contains required items _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "PotvinO_2017_NeuroImage.pdf" kMDItemAuthors = ( "Olivier Potvin" ) kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2021-05-02 01:21:02 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2021-05-02 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2021-07-09 09:37:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate_Ranking = 2021-07-09 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentType = "com.adobe.pdf" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "com.adobe.pdf", "public.data", "public.item", "public.composite-content", "public.content" ) kMDItemCreator = "DEVONthink 3" kMDItemDateAdded = 2021-05-02 01:21:02 +0000 kMDItemDateAdded_Ranking = 2021-05-02 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemDescription = "NeuroImage, 156 (2017) 43-64. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.04.035" kMDItemDisplayName = "PotvinO_2017_NeuroImage.pdf" kMDItemDocumentIdentifier = 0 kMDItemEncodingApplications = ( "macOS Version 10.15.5 (Build 19F101) Quartz PDFContext" ) kMDItemFinderComment = "zotero://select/library/items/GUEHRJEX" kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2021-07-09 09:37:00 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2021-05-02 01:21:02 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null) kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0 kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null) kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "PotvinO_2017_NeuroImage.pdf" kMDItemFSNodeCount = (null) kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 1702019 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2021-07-13 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemKeywords = ( "Magnetic resonance imaging; Atrophy; Morphometry; Normality; Aging; Sex; Segmentation" ) kMDItemKind = "Document PDF" kMDItemLogicalSize = 1702019 kMDItemNumberOfPages = 22 kMDItemPageHeight = 793.701 kMDItemPageWidth = 595.2760009765625 kMDItemPhysicalSize = 1703936 kMDItemSecurityMethod = "None" kMDItemTitle = "Freesurfer cortical normative data for adults using Desikan-Killiany-Tourville and ex vivo protocols" kMDItemVersion = "1.3" ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file is in search scope... ✅ File exists within Alfred's default search scope ----------------------------------------------------------- ✅ Troubleshooting passed From now on, every now and then, I can't find any PDF. What I do to circumvent this issue is I run a simple bash script that simply apply the touch command to every PDF in my storage file. for file in find /Users/olivierroy/Zotero/storage/*/*.pdf do touch -t 202107090537 $file done This resolves the issue...for a while. Then, usually after waking from sleep, the issue comes back. My Alfred version is: Alfred 4.3.4 [1229] My macOs version is: 11.4 I don't want to stop using Alfred and go back to Spotlight but I feel this will be the only solution going forward if I can't find a solution. Thanks