I am having this same problem and have tried all of the fixes here. I tried completely resetting Alfred per this page too: http://support.alfredapp.com/kb:reset-alfred I used the Advanced section to clear the application cache AND tried rebuilding spotlight. When I type any application into spotlight search it is found immediately. But Alfred takes up to 30 seconds to find a match, if it finds one at all. It's like it doesn't have an application cache. At one point it would find an application after several seconds, and then it could find it again quickly. But after clearing the application cache I can't find any. Perhaps I need a way to force the application cache to update/rebuild, not just clear? I used the metadata tool on iTunes, just one of many apps alfred isn't finding but is found in spotlight. Here are the results. Please help! Alfred works great on my other computers but this one for some reason it is uselessly slow!
/Applications/iTunes.app
Internal File Metadata
======================
Display Name: iTunes
Alt Names: iT, iTunes.app
File Type: com.apple.application-bundle
Comments:
Keywords:
Last Used: 2014-04-14 05:46:55 +0000
Raw mdls File Metadata
======================
kMDItemAlternateNames = (
iT,
"iTunes.app"
)
kMDItemAppStoreCategory = "Music"
kMDItemAppStoreCategoryType = "public.app-category.music"
kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier = "com.apple.iTunes"
kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2012-06-08 01:52:50 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2014-02-27 00:15:51 +0000
kMDItemContentType = "com.apple.application-bundle"
kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
"com.apple.application-bundle",
"com.apple.application",
"public.executable",
"com.apple.localizable-name-bundle",
"com.apple.bundle",
"public.directory",
"public.item",
"com.apple.package"
)
kMDItemDateAdded = 2014-02-07 00:05:07 +0000
kMDItemDisplayName = "iTunes"
kMDItemExecutableArchitectures = (
"x86_64",
i386
)
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2014-02-27 00:15:51 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2012-06-08 01:52:50 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null)
kMDItemFSInvisible = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 1
kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null)
kMDItemFSLabel = 0
kMDItemFSName = "iTunes.app"
kMDItemFSNodeCount = 1
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 0
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 0
kMDItemFSSize = 325751335
kMDItemFSTypeCode = ""
kMDItemKind = "Application"
kMDItemLanguages = (
ar,
ca,
cs,
da,
Dutch,
el,
"en_GB",
English,
fi,
French,
German,
he,
hr,
hu,
id,
Italian,
Japanese,
ko,
ms,
no,
pl,
pt,
"pt_PT",
ro,
ru,
sk,
Spanish,
sv,
th,
tr,
uk,
vi,
"zh_CN",
"zh_TW"
)
kMDItemLastUsedDate = 2014-04-14 05:46:55 +0000
kMDItemLogicalSize = 325751335
kMDItemPhysicalSize = 346226688
kMDItemUseCount = 2
kMDItemUsedDates = (
"2014-04-13 07:00:00 +0000"
)
kMDItemVersion = "11.1.5"