Paul Doherty

Sent the email. Here are the permissions

Yes the setting disappear after an Alfred restart.  So the hat comes back to my menu bar after an Alfred restart per your message.

Funny some settings stay and some setting are lost. If I change the Alfred hotkey to

CMD SPace

that is still there after a restart. My workflows all remain. But if I set "Where are you" to UK then that gets lost, as does asking Alfred to put Bookmarks in the default results.

This could be a file permissioning problem??

If Alfred is working on a new user account, I don't think a fresh reinstall of Alfred will help.

 

Are settings disappearing straight away... e.g. Hide Alfred's hat (it hides), quit Alfred, restart Alfred and is the hat still hidden?

Yes the setting disappear after an Alfred restart.  So the hat comes back to my menu bar after an Alfred restart per your message.

Possible that I did about 3 weeks ago. But I dont remember for sure.

Do you want me to do a fresh install of Alfred? Delete alfred 2 in my apps floder and then download again???? or what is the best way?

I did that and also deleted (was that a bad plan?)

~/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-Preferences/ 

but no luck. CLeaner type apps hmmm

Broomstick

AppCleaner

Does either of these start automatically. I think no

Thanks for the reply Andrew

1. Repairing Permissions 

Tried this did not help.

2. Unsync Dropbox Settings

I Dont use dropbox sync

3. Resetting Alfred to Defaults

Did this, some of these are folders so I did a "rm -r *" in the folders. All my workflows had to be imported (not a problem). But still no luck

~/Library/Preferences/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-2.plist

~/Library/Preferences/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-Preferences.plist

~/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-2

~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2

4. Create a New User Account

Yes this solves the problem.  How difficult will it be to port all my stuff over to a new account???? Is this gonna be a 20 minute job or will I be working at it for a morning?

Useful thanks

It comes back as soon as I reboot 

the Alfred icon does disappear. But a day or so later the Alfred icon is back on the menubar and the checkbox is OFF. Can you help me please.