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Hi Vero. I just rebooted my Mac and found Alfred couldn't find my files again. However, I opened up "Request Permissions" again and noticed that it had lost permissions for "Full Disk Access". So I gave it permission again, and now it can find my files, etc. So I'm not sure if that's the root cause of the problems, but it might be. 

Okay, another update. I ran reset again and then restarted Alfred. That seemed to fix it. For now. 

On 3/9/2023 at 8:03 PM, Vero said:

 

You say you needed to do the reset again. Is this because you switched back to "Reset to Alfred Defaults"? Or because your configuration switched back by itself?

 

If it's because you switched back manually, just to clarify, you will need to leave your search scope as "Reset to Applications and Home" - this isn't something where you switch to then switch straight back to Defaults.

 

If it's the latter, it's a sign that your preferences aren't being saved correctly.

 

I've been using Dropbox in the new CloudStorage location for a few weeks now on Ventura, and all files are found reliably with the "Reset to Applications and Home" scope. You may need to use the File Troubleshooter to establish whether your files are correctly indexed by macOS.

Yes, the config seems to have broken multiple times. When I first had problems with it finding my files and workflows, I did the reset to applications and home, and it worked again.... until the next day, when it stopped working. So I repeated the process. But the reset didn't work the next time. I tried again a day later, and the reset worked. But just now, Alfred has stopped working again. I've just hit the reset, and it still isn't working (meaning it doesn't find my files or workflows). 

MacOS 13.2.1

Alfred 5.0.6

I'm having the same problem. Alfred doesn't find any of my files in Dropbox (which happens to be ALL of my files). I did the RESET TO APPLICATIONS AND HOME trick yesterday and it fixed it for a while, but this morning the problem had returned. When I did the RESET again, this time is hasn't fixed the problem. I've also made sure my preferences folder (also in Dropbox) is downloaded and set to be offline, but this hasn't helped, either. I also had a problem today where Alfred didn't pick up my Workflows, but a Mac reboot seems to have fixed that problem for now. 

I've been using a particular workflow over the last couple of years. It just opens a couple of media files in Yoink. Today it is missing. I've rebooted Alfred, searched through the workflows, and can't see it. Any ideas why it might have disappeared or how to restore it? I can just rebuild it, but it bothers me that it's disappeared. 

Thanks again! I had to manually add ~Library Pref Panes to the search scope and that fixed it. 

6 hours ago, vitor said:

 

That’s not the correct file. Your screenshot is showing your synced preferences, not the application that calls Alfred Preferences. That one should be in /Applications/Alfred 3.app/Contents/Preferences/Alfred Preferences.app.

Open Alfred and call reload. That might fix it. If it does not, follow the troubleshooting steps.

Reload fixed it! Thanks! 

16 hours ago, deanishe said:

 

It's a default shortcut that works with pretty much every application.

Oh yeah I'm very familiar with that, use it a hundred times a day, but didn't realise it would work when the Alfred search bar is up. I guess I should have though. 

Thanks, just tried that, didn't work unfortunately. I get System Preferences, but not Alfred Preferences. 

Good hack, thanks!

I used to be able to open Hazel preferences from Alfred, but now Alfred can't even find the preferences file. Any ideas why it wouldn't be able to see it? 

Thanks.

I used to be able to open Alfred preferences via Alfred. But recently it's stopped working and I can't figure out why. Alfred can see the file, but it doesn't open. If I type "find" before it, it opens up the directory where the preferences file is, but I can't open the preferences from there either. I have to go to the menu bar to open it.  Any ideas?

Screenshot attached. 

Thanks.

Thanks Diego. I tried that, it didn't work at first, so I deleted the entries and tried again - now it seems to be working. 

After upgrading to High Sierra and Alfred 3.5, I'm getting these two new error messages using the system command for "Eject All". 

"Preboot is currently busy"

and

"com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots is currently busy"

Should I add these to the Blacklist? If so, how? 

I've been under a brute force attack on my server recently and have to look up way too many IP addresses in Project Honeypot and WHOIS to see if they are known spammers, so I built this workflow (my first!) to speed up the process. 

Download: http://goo.gl/V5O4F9

Well I have now. :-)  

And that worked, thanks. 

I've gone through the update process 4 times today and I'm still on 2.0.3. Anyone else having this problem? Any tips for fixing it? 

Totally brilliant. Brings together my two favourite Mac apps. Thank you, sir.