oderwat

With the new Alfred 2 Update it is finally possible to fix the result order in a supported way (I modified workflow.php to support that).

URL goes to 404 ... and it is a bit unclear to me what it actually will do!

This workflow generates some useful checksums from file contents. It is implemented as file action which makes it easy to use!

It works pretty nice with my "Last changed files" workflow and also can be used to checksum a file in finder by setting a hotkey to the "File Selection" in "Find File".

You can download it here: https://github.com/oderwat/alfredworkflows/raw/master/Checksums.alfredworkflow

My other workflows are here: https://github.com/oderwat/alfredworkflows

Versions:

V1.0 - Initial releases

@Sridhar GasMask is pretty cool! Never heard of it before!

Yet another method to fix the result order! Added 'Docoments/My Games' to blacklist.

Well... I usually use sublime text 2 in the shell... with sudo subl /private/etc/hosts not really worth a workflow for me.

In addition to autocomplete there should be the type(='file') so the results can be drag&drop if they are path's.

Hey @vdesabou!

I modified "my" version of the script to handle the spaces in Names, grabbed that visible message idea and made the clipboard copying optional when you press CMD on rename (I hate to mess up my clipboard as side effect).

I did not add your extra script cause I like to have the things "visible" so others can check it out and use part of it.

Still not tested very much! I am not sure if all escaping works as expected. There may be still problems with some filenames.

I added the iTunes Folder to the Blacklist and made a personal Blacklist which just triggers on my system (dependent on the user name of the login user). Maybe I create a way to store personal data for the blacklist in the future.

I just fixed a rather stupid bug which hides files from the result list when they have the exact same timestamp.

Yes... That is one thing I like better with LaunchBar. You can Fuzzy Search "anything"!

I think this is similar what David Ferguson did for his quick rename workflow which I took over and enhanced a bit (which contains the part you may need).

Look at the code of this to get an idea how to accomplish this chaining parameters and actions: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1779-rename-file-action/

So there's something screwy with Mac #1.

Can you run a quick test and enter the following in a terminal window to see it it gives a result?

mdfind -onlyin ~/ 'kMDItemDateAdded >= $time.now(-7200)' 

This should list all files below your user home added in the last 2 hours.

And please try:

php -v 

and give me the result please!

May be hard to find that problem this way... probably something easily overseen

Yep, that is the case.

Well I need to know their filenames & mdls attributes. I do not have any files like that for testing. I wonder why the actually are listet cause I do not get any files include in spotlight searches which are in folders starting with a dot character.

Would it be possible to skip cache files?

In my case it shows a lot of sass cache files.

Yeah I am still optimizing. I try to not make a "white list" of folders but a black-list. So my extra folders in home are all caught.

Can you tell me the path of the files and probably also make a "mdls <filename>" in the terminal with some of them?

I guess you have multiple paths with such files (inside the .sass-cache folders I suspect)?

As I can not filter in spotlight for a file path I may need to exclude them from the results but would like to see if there is a better way to filter them out.

I just changed the way it scans to include files changed or "added" from the last 48 hours. This means it will also find a file which for example was extracted from a zip archive while maintaining it's original date!

Nice workflow.  

I've have MS Office installed, and when I run your workflow it shows a lot of files from /Users/.*/Documents/Microsoft User Data/*.   How do I skip those so they don't show up?

 

Thanks

 

James

I just uploaded a new version which changes how it scans and also excludes files form the directory you mention!

This sounds great. Thanks for doing it. But I'm sorry to say that it's not working for me. It tells me that it's scanning (so I think I have it installed correctly), but it always tells me "No Docs." I've tried saving files of various sorts (.txt, .pages, .js, .doc) in a variety of directories (~home/Sites/folder, ~home/Dropbox/folder, ~/home/Documents/folder) but they don't show up on the list.

 

I'm 100% confident that it's something I've done wrong. Still, I thought I'd let you know. And make a sad face

 

- David

It relies on Spotlight working and indexing your data and only scans in your home folder. Can you find those files by using normal Spotlight search?

I added the attribute type="file" to <item> in the xml result for the filter.

Actually I am using here the workflow class by David Ferguson and there it comes after the last parameter he has documented (which is autocompletion text).

Well there was a feature Request for adding "Rename File" to the internal commands on files here: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1675-add-a-rename-action-to-the-file-action-list/

David Ferguson quickly replied with an custom workflow (with some smart Alfred magic making Alfred calling search on itself!)

But his version was a bit raw and limited to files only. So I enhanced it as follows:

1. It uses "mv" instead of cp / remove. This way it will work on folders (and bundles).

2. I made it so that the original name is the default when you rename a file.

3. I added Alleyoop update to it as I may enhance / debug in the future.

You can get my "Rename File" workflow version from here: https://github.com/oderwat/alfredworkflows/raw/master/Rename%20File.alfredworkflow

V1.1: Visible rename confimation. Fixed renaming of files with spaces in name. CMD Return on rename now copies the resulting file path to the clipboard. Upgraded Alleyoop code too.

All my current workflows are available here: https://github.com/oderwat/alfredworkflows

Doesn't work with folders.

It does for me... so what exactly did you do?

OK.. I enhanced the quick version of David a bit:

1. It uses "mv" instead of copy / remove. This way it will work on folders (and bundles) and keeps its attributes (could add a touch to bump the date though).

2. I made it so that the original name is shown when you rename a file!

https://github.com/oderwat/alfredworkflows/raw/master/Rename%20File.alfredworkflow

P.S.: I make it update able with Alleyoop and may enhance it further.. if you want it back David just tell me!

Well... another change: Listed files can now drag&drop from the result list!

This can be updated with Alleyoop but I guess nobody was so fast to grab the v1.5 version

Hmmm.... Thanks for this David! I just found out that I need to add the "file" attribute to my "Last changed Files" Workflow to get this behavior!

Consider this request "closed"  

Thats a really cool workflow! I love it! Thank you man!