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Thank you both!

I went with @Vero's suggestion as it seemed the "most native" way to do it.

I have all three Affinity applications installed in two different versions each. I still want to keep the old versions around on my system for a while, but I would like to tell Alfred not to offer those versions for launching.

In other words, I'd like to exclude three applications from showing up in the default results. Is this possible?

I've done some further troubleshooting and it was indeed an issue running the script.

The rather spurious = not found was an error on line 6. Today I learned... that leaving out the shebang line does not mean that a .sh file will be treated as the same shell that you are currently using. Some of the constructs I was using are bash only and running in Terminal treated it as a bash script, thus it worked.

The fix was to tell Alfred it was bash and it's all working as desired.

To Clarify the workflow blocks in play, here's what it looks like.

I had a workflow that I initially based on "Advanced Hotkeys - Getting Started" (and have yet to change the name as I am still developing it). I have it down to a single Hotkey that accepts selected items from Finder.

I attached a ksh script to this which ran a simple command on the selected files. This works OK.

[13:28:15.411] Advanced Hotkeys - Getting Started[Hotkey] Processing complete
[13:28:15.415] Advanced Hotkeys - Getting Started[Hotkey] Passing output '(
    "/Users/allisterjenks/Downloads/48_036.tiff"
)' to Run Script
[13:29:09.611] Advanced Hotkeys - Getting Started[Hotkey] Processing complete

I have been trying to get a more complex script to work and to test that, I have left the existing script in place, and simply reconnect the trigger to whichever script I want to run; old or new. However, my new script is generating an error that I do not understand. I have written the script in a .sh file as well and that works perfectly now, but the Alfred version, that differs only in fully qualifying a shell command (installed via Homebrew) keeps throwing this error.
 

[13:29:09.614] Advanced Hotkeys - Getting Started[Hotkey] Passing output '(
    "/Users/allisterjenks/Downloads/48_036.tiff"
)' to Run Script
[13:29:09.642] ERROR: Advanced Hotkeys - Getting Started[Run Script] /Users/allisterjenks/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/FF1434A3-A5CA-446F-81CE-4C722F76D5D6:6: = not found

That looks to me like it is saying Alfred is trying to run a script from a cache but it's not there. I have made multiple edits to the script in the Workflow editor but this error persists. How can I fix this?

I'm building a List Filter with over 500 entries. I have a CSV file with the 3 text values as mentioned below the list box, but I would also like to import the 500+ unique icons, whose file names are directly related to the list item title and would be easy to add into the CSV.

Is this possible without manually dragging every icon into the correct list element?

I use this Workflow when I walk away from my Mac at night (I leave it on overnight for all manner of reasons). It does 3 things:

1. Show the current charge levels of all attached Bluetooth input devices.
2. Mute the sound
3. Invoke the screen saver

More details (and a download link) in the blog post...

https://sittingduck.co.nz/2018/04/good-night-mac-an-alfred-3-workflow/

As a followup to my earlier workflow, here's a new one which uses the recently updated xkpasswd library, now known as Crypt::HSXKPasswd.

It lets you generate secure, memorable passwords easily, directly to your clipboard for pasting into those signup forms. A variety of options are provided based on the presets used at xkpasswd.net.

Details over on my blog.

Hi.

Is there any official word on El Capitan compatibility for Alfred? I don't know if a "planted" email in the keynote constitutes a release date announcement, but assuming it does, it's only 2 weeks away.

I'd like to consider moving to the recently released GM but would want to be sure Alfred will work before I do.

Thanks.

1. Are you able to mount and browse the old drive image?

2. Were you using any kind of app to sync your preferences before? (Dropbox, etc)

 

If you can mount and browse the image and were NOT syncing preferences, Alfred 2's preferences reside in ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Alfred.alfredpreferences. If you copy that file from the old drive image into the same place on the new installation, everything should copy over. Not sure how Alfred would handle his preferences being overwritten while he's running so you MAY have to restart him to get the preferences to take affect.

Yes and no, so I was able to go and grab the file as described and have all my lovely workflows back. :-)

Thanks (and to Tyler) for the help.

I've just wiped my boot drive and re-installed Mavericks and all my software. I have Alfred 2 installed and licensed and doing its basic tasks, but I don't have my workflows from the old install.

I do have a clone of the old drive image, can I copy some files across to retrieve the workflows or do I have to boot from the clone, export, boot from the new and import?

I've been a huge fan of Bart Busschots' xkpasswd.net password generating web site and now I've used his Perl library to create an Alfred Workflow that generates passwords straight to the clipboard.

You can find the details and the workflow over on my blog.

I write my workflows in AppleScript too.

 

Check this workflow: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/460-to-dropbox-30-formerly-move-to-dropbox-url-to-the-clipboard/

 

Or this working in progress with a more updated approach regarding a setup: download now

Thanks, but I'm finding that hard to follow without a basic explanation of the technique.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks! I've been looking for this simple explanation for ages. Nicely written.

I've now got my workflow up and running sweetly. I will post it soon, but there's one related question I have.

My workflow's embedded AppleScript contains a couple of variables that users will have to customise for their own purposes – is there a smart way to do that? Some way of prompting the user once at install and thereafter just working with the entered values.