physiltant

Amazing! Much faster (still 2-5 seconds for some searches but it's good enough for me and I think I just have too many files) and no longer freezes. Results are much more intuitive and relevant now as well. Thank you!

Great so the cache.txt seems to get built out just fine from what I can see (I can't check every line cos I have thousands of files but it looks OK at a glance), and results show up. However, the actual search has some issues. For folders with a smaller number of files, all seems fine and consistent (though the order of results is questionable and non-intuitive). But for folders with lots of files, it's not very consistent or quick: e.g. searching the same thing 3 times delivered 3 different sets of results (one of which was no results at all) - though I can't replicate this again so it was probably just the first couple of times for that search. For larger folders it also takes a few seconds (up to 10-15 seconds), and often freezes (rainbow wheel) - this I've replicated a few times. For me personally right now this is an issue because I use my Bookshelf folder (formerly Library) a lot and it has a lot of files so this will mean freezing often, but I think for many others with smaller folders this is a perfect solution, at least temporarily. Again, it goes without saying we all massively appreciate your work. The above isn't a complaint, it's just feedback! EDIT: Additional point RE results. So using "Bookshelf" as an example, when your latest version does eventually list results, it seems to list the Bookshelf folder and then EVERYTHING in that folder (hundreds of files) even if the file does not have "Bookshelf" in it, which of course isn't desirable. Your original version (before the caching feature) is therefore actually quicker for this keyword and presents better results for my Bookshelf folder (it just shows files/folders with the actual keyword in it). This applies to other searches as well: it shows any folders with the keyword in it and then ALL constituent files even if they don't have the keyword in it - whereas it's best to only show files with the keyword in it.

How long does the notification take? It's been a couple of minutes and I haven't seen one. This is what the debugger says anyway: [00:47:20.327] Google Drive[Keyword] Processing complete [00:47:20.331] Google Drive[Keyword] Passing output '' to Arg and Vars [00:47:20.331] Google Drive[Arg and Vars] Processing complete [00:47:20.332] Google Drive[Arg and Vars] Passing output '' to Run Script [00:47:20.494] Google Drive[Run Script] Processing complete [00:47:20.499] Google Drive[Run Script] Passing output '{"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} ' to Conditional [00:47:20.499] Google Drive[Conditional] Processing complete [00:47:20.500] Google Drive[Conditional] Passing output '{"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} ' to Post Notification Yes the cache.txt file exists via that path but no it is blank Very sure

I ran a couple of searches. Here's what it outputted. Sorry if I've not done it properly. [00:32:26.595] Logging Started... [00:33:16.161] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'd' [00:33:16.250] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'de' [00:33:16.386] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'dee' [00:33:16.411] Google Drive[Script Filter] Script with argv 'de' finished [00:33:16.412] Google Drive[Script Filter] {"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} [00:33:16.452] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'deen' [00:33:16.611] Google Drive[Script Filter] Script with argv 'deen' finished [00:33:16.611] Google Drive[Script Filter] {"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} [00:33:21.675] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'l' [00:33:21.783] Google Drive[Script Filter] Script with argv 'l' finished [00:33:21.785] Google Drive[Script Filter] {"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} [00:33:22.799] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'b' [00:33:22.865] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'bo' [00:33:23.003] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'boo' [00:33:23.024] Google Drive[Script Filter] Script with argv 'bo' finished [00:33:23.031] Google Drive[Script Filter] {"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} [00:33:23.136] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'book' [00:33:23.186] Google Drive[Script Filter] Script with argv 'boo' finished [00:33:23.195] Google Drive[Script Filter] {"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} [00:33:23.347] Google Drive[Script Filter] Script with argv 'book' finished [00:33:23.358] Google Drive[Script Filter] {"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} [00:33:23.768] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'books' [00:33:23.856] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'booksh' [00:33:23.945] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'bookshe' [00:33:24.059] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'bookshel' [00:33:24.105] Google Drive[Script Filter] Script with argv 'bookshe' finished [00:33:24.117] Google Drive[Script Filter] {"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} [00:33:24.125] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'bookshelf' [00:33:24.285] Google Drive[Script Filter] Script with argv 'bookshelf' finished [00:33:24.300] Google Drive[Script Filter] {"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} [00:33:34.837] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'm' [00:33:34.949] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'my' [00:33:35.005] Google Drive[Script Filter] Script with argv 'm' finished [00:33:35.021] Google Drive[Script Filter] {"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} [00:33:35.038] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'my ' [00:33:35.129] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'my d' [00:33:35.196] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'my dr' [00:33:35.241] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'my dri' [00:33:35.376] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'my driv' [00:33:35.404] Google Drive[Script Filter] Script with argv 'my dri' finished [00:33:35.405] Google Drive[Script Filter] {"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} [00:33:35.443] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'my drive' [00:33:35.604] Google Drive[Script Filter] Script with argv 'my drive' finished [00:33:35.624] Google Drive[Script Filter] {"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} [00:33:58.509] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'f' [00:33:58.596] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'fi' [00:33:58.757] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'fin' [00:33:58.783] Google Drive[Script Filter] Script with argv 'fi' finished [00:33:58.784] Google Drive[Script Filter] {"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} [00:33:58.824] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'fina' [00:33:58.911] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'finan' [00:33:58.979] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'financ' [00:33:59.024] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'finance' [00:33:59.183] Google Drive[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'finances' [00:33:59.207] Google Drive[Script Filter] Script with argv 'finance' finished [00:33:59.208] Google Drive[Script Filter] {"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]} [00:33:59.355] Google Drive[Script Filter] Script with argv 'finances' finished [00:33:59.381] Google Drive[Script Filter] {"items":[{"title":"Nothing found","subtitle":"Try searching something else"}]}

Thanks for the reply. It's been just over 30m and still nothing.. Note that, to emulate a brand new user, I fully uninstalled both Google Drive and Alfred, restarted my Macbook, reinstalled Alfred + Powerpack, then reinstalled Google Drive from scratch, then waited 30m (just in case), then installed the workflow, removed the agent and reinstalled it as instructed, waited another 30m, and it's still not finding anything at all. Can anyone else replicate this? I wonder if it only works for those who used your older versions first (which might have done some indexing or whatever that's helped your latest version work). Anyway I'll wait another 30m and see if anything happens. Thanks for all your efforts.

In fact, after reinstalling Google Drive (I waited a while first), it's now not finding anything at all...

Yes, that's the one I'm using. I tried before and after running :gdlaunchd and same issue.

I'm using your new one, but I'm having the same issue as alfredpanda: some searches aren't showing up (that are showing up in your old one). It is super quick now though!

Looking forward to trying this. It's not working at the moment but I think it's because I just reinstalled Google Drive so I have to wait a little for it to load files or something and I should try again later - is that right?

Update: restarted Google Drive and Alfred no longer works on its own. Doesn't find Google Drive or any of its files at all.

Ok all of a sudden Alfred is working absolutely fine by itself (bar the "Library" issue - which only your workflow solved). I have disabled all workflows. What's happened?

Great. One nitpicky thing maybe to consider for the final version: I changed the keyword to ' (which I assume many will want to eventually do), but it shows duplicate results (I assume one from the standard search and one from your workflow). See example below. (Also not sure why Alfred is suddenly showing results without the use of a workflow - yesterday it wasn't finding anything by itself at all!)

This seems to work! Even with "Library" haha. It takes about 5-7 seconds to find the files (I have around 1TB of files).

Running ls -R "/Volumes/GoogleDrive/My Drive" reveals everything as expected. I tried your workflow as well and it leaves me hanging like the others (I have almost 1 TB of files, Google Drive is in the default location, I have a MBP 16", I waited over 30m) I have a couple more behaviours to report if it adds any insight (remember I am using this workflow) : 1. I noticed that files if files show up as having synced (even if "online only") in the menu icon window (see below), they'll show up in an Alfred search. Before syncing they don't show up in Alfred's search. 2. I also noticed that there is one folder that is stubbornly refusing to show up in search: a folder called "Library" which has a bunch of folders and PDFs. Alfred seems to have an issue with the word "Library". When I rename this Library folder to anything else, it doesn't work. If I create a new folder called "Library", it doesn't work. However, if I create a *new folder* called Library OLD (or anything else), it shows up as synced in the menu bar (as above) and shows up in search. If I then rename this new folder to "Library" instead of "Library OLD" or "Libraryyy", it stays synced, but Alfred will pretend it's not called "Library". See below. Notice how the path is to "Library" as it should be, but it still calls it "Libraryyy" in search. Renaming this new folder to anything but "Library" is absolutely fine. This was my only problematic folder (as far as I've noticed so far), so I guess for me I now have a fix: create a new folder that is not called Library, and copy all my files into this new folder. This seems to work for now. EDIT: OK I can't rename it back to Library. Only the parent "Library" folder will show up in search (with the wrong name but correct path), but none of its constituent files sync. I have to rename it to something else for it and its constituent files to sync.

So initially Alfred just found nothing. I then installed this workflow which seems to solve things for the most part. Now the behaviour I'm experiencing is that some files/folders simply aren't being found by Alfred, even when I make them available for offline access. Many other files are being found fine, even if online only. I've added the Volumes/GoogleDrive to the search scope. Troubleshooting File Search in Alfred doesn't reveal anything. Even mdutil -i on /Volumes/GoogleDrive via Terminal doesn't make a difference. It all seems a bit arbitrary, and is very frustrating. I can't even revert to Backup & Sync which was perfectly fine for me.