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  1. What eventually worked for me this time was Alfred Settings > Advanced > Build macOS Metadata > Delete .Spotlight-V100 Folder > Reboot.
  2. Well, I got a new MacBook, and here I find myself again. Stuff in my home folder shows up in Spotlight. If I set my search scope to '/' in Alfred, it can find it. But if I have search scopes in either the general settings or if I use a workflow that applies a search scope, suddenly no files in my home folder can be found. If I make the scope /Users, things in /Users/Shared can be found, and my user folder itself can be found, but things inside my user folder cannot be found. I used macOS Migration Assistant on macOS Ventura 13.4 It looks like last time, the solution involved some combination of patience, creating a new user, and reindexing, so I guess that's what I will try. Would be great if Alfred could detect this condition and suggest a fix or something. It's a very frustrating set of seemingly contradictory behaviors.
  3. Both my old and new Macs were 12.0.1 Apple Silicon. I explicitly upgraded the new macbook to 12.0.1 and then erased it and started over before doing my migration. I'd already been using the computer for a day or so when I realized the problem with Alfred, because I was trying to find a deeply nested folder in which I file a monthly bank statement. At that point I tried some things on my own like granting Alfred full disk access. When nothing I tried helped, I found the troubleshooting steps (https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/indexing/) and followed all those steps. That's the point where I found this forum thread. I guess it's not impossible there was just some kind of time-delayed mds background magic going on the whole time, but definitely spotlight worked, and definitely the top-level home directory folders were findable but no files nested within. I did not upgrade macOS versions or even reboot or logout, I just created that new user and switched to it and back. As the new user, the unfindable files were instantly findable with no sort of delay or anything. I didn't immediately try finding them back on my original user account, but within 20 minutes or something I was going back through everything I had tried and when I searched for them on the original account they showed up. If it's helpful, I did email you my Alfred diagnostics file after doing the standard troubleshooting steps but before I started creating new accounts.
  4. Hmm, that's certainly unfortunate. I'll see if I can list all the steps at some level of detail in case there's anything in there that could matter. System Preferences > Users and Groups > Click the lock to make changes + button > New Account: Administrator Apple Menu > Lock Screen Login Screen > Switch User Login as the new user Skip all of the OOBE stuff: no iTunes account, no siri, no TouchID, etc. Run Alfred 4 under the new account Add /Users/ryan (my original account) to the search path Test a "find" command in Alfred, which discovered things under my home directory (though due to file permissions, it could find e.g. stuff in my Downloads but not my Dropbox) Apple Menu > Log out Login as my original user Test a "find" command in Alfred, seems to be working now System Preferences > Users and Groups — delete the temporary user The only thing that's popping out at me as a possible important variable is that I created a new Administrator account, not a Standard Account. Not sure which you tried.
  5. I think it would be a good idea to edit the top post on this thread which is now marked as resolved to indicate that creating (and logging in with?) and deleting a new user profile fixes your existing user profile. I think many of us linked to this thread read it and dismissed it as a useless "fix" because we weren't willing to switch user profiles. Hopefully somebody who knows for sure can clarify whether it's even necessary to log into the new user profile. I didn't try Alfred again on my original account after creating the profile but before logging in with it.
  6. Ok, yeah, this is super weird. 1. Create a new user account 2. Add /Users/original to the Alfred search path 3. Search for and successfully find the exact same files in Alfred that you couldn't when logged in as original. Switching to an entirely different user account would be quite a hassle, though. Especially given my understanding that the original admin account on an Apple Silicon mac is a special super admin account that ties into some of the hardware locking and activation. BTW, `ls -le` isn't showing extended ACLs for any of the home directory folders other than the usual everyone deny delete on the built-in default user folders like Desktop and Music. EDIT: WOW. Step 4: Switch back to your original account. Alfred can now find the files it couldn't find before. So this isn't even just a diagnostic thing; creating a new user profile actually fixed my existing user. The only thing I see that's different is that my original user account got added to a new group called com.apple.sharepoint.group.#.
  7. Hi, I'm in this bandwagon as well. I've been a powerpack user for over a decade. I used Migration Assistant to transfer direct between two MacBook Pros. Alfred was fully functional on the old MacBook Pro. Both are runnning macOS 12.0.1. On the new MBP, Alfred can find folders that are directly in my home directory, but it does not find files or folders deeper in the hierarchy. I have rebuilt my spotlight index. The files can be found with mdfind. The file find diagnostics show green checkmarks. I have granted Alfred Full Disk Access. Uh, I tried to attach my Alfred diagnostics file but it says that file type is not allowed. Happy to provide any additional information that might be helpful.
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