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There seem to be something weird going on: macOS is saying draw.io.app is the default app for this file extension. Hence I do not understand why the file type is what it is... Thanks for the space trick!

@AndrewI simply typed "untitled digram", no space before and no "open" before. If I type "open untitled diagram", Alfred does find it, that's interesting. Same if I type a space in front, then it finds it. That I do not understand: if I double click the file it launches the drawio app...

Thanks for getting back to me, here is the output: Starting Diagnostics... File: 'Untitled Diagram.drawio' Path: '/Users/myusername/Downloads' ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file cache database... ✅ File cache integrity is ok ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if file is readable... ✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file. Unix Permissions: 420 Underlying Type: NSFileTypeRegular Extended Attributes: ( "com.apple.macl", "com.apple.provenance" ) ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS... ✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive ----------------------------------------------------------- Check direct file metadata... ⚠️ Direct metadata available, but content type may be incorrect Display Name: Untitled Diagram.drawio Other Names: Content Type: dyn.ah62d4rv4ge80k6xbs7y08 Last Used: ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ✅ Metadata contains required items _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "Untitled Diagram.drawio" kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2024-01-23 20:23:50 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2024-01-23 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2024-01-23 20:23:50 +0000 kMDItemContentType = "dyn.ah62d4rv4ge80k6xbs7y08" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "public.item", "dyn.ah62d4rv4ge80k6xbs7y08", "public.data" ) kMDItemDateAdded = 2024-01-23 20:23:50 +0000 kMDItemDisplayName = "Untitled Diagram.drawio" kMDItemDocumentIdentifier = 0 kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2024-01-23 20:23:50 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2024-01-23 20:23:50 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null) kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0 kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null) kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "Untitled Diagram.drawio" kMDItemFSNodeCount = (null) kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 663 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2024-01-23 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemKind = "draw.io Diagram" kMDItemLogicalSize = 663 kMDItemPhysicalSize = 4096 ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file is in search scope... ✅ File exists within Alfred's default search scope ----------------------------------------------------------- Check MDQuery file search... ✅ macOS returned a match for this file in your search scope. File Search Results for search scope ( "[0] /System/Volumes/Data/Users/myusername/Downloads/Untitled Diagram.drawio" ) File Search Results for ~/ ( "[0] /System/Volumes/Data/Users/myusername/Downloads/Untitled Diagram.drawio" ) File Search Results for / ( "[0] /System/Volumes/Data/Users/myusername/Downloads/Untitled Diagram.drawio" ) ----------------------------------------------------------- ✅ Troubleshooting passed ⚠️ There were 1 warning(s)

Hello experts, I have the issue that Alfred is somehow not indexing my draw.io files (.drawio). I ran the troubleshooting and there is a single warning for every draw.io file I tried so far: Not sure if that's helpful though... Has anyone an idea what I could try?

Hello, it appears drawio files are not indexed for me. I don't think they ever were, I just recently started using drawio. My setup: macOS 14.2.1 Alfred 5.1.4 File types excluded from file search: Emails Contacts Calendar Bookmarks History Messages File Search Troubleshooting: one warning, "content type may be incorrect". It's the same with any drawio file as far as I can tell. If anyone has a pointer for me, I would appreciate. Thanks!

Please make sure ~/Library/CloudStorage is automatically added to the scope by default upon upgrading to the next Alfred version. Everyone using a form of cloud storage will hit this issue as some point and it took me a long while to find this solution. Thanks @dpsr!!

Thanks. I guess, I have to wait after typing my query then for Alfred to "stabilise" and display the correct result at the top. I wish this would be faster, that would avoid me teaching alfred to prefer the wrong result.

Hello all, when I type a keyword followed by a value to open a specific URL (the URL is built using the value I type after the keyword – it's "bug XXXX" which opens a the defect web page for defect XXX), I somehow have as first result some file I opened recently for example, and after half a second, the correct action is selected to opening the URL. So, if I press enter immediately, it opens some recent file instead of opening the URL. Anybody else has this? Any workaround? The weird thing is, the file name has nothing to do with the keyword most of the time, so I do not understand why it pops up at the top of the list, even if it's just for half a second... macOS Monterey 12.1.0 Alfred 4.6.1

Hmm, can't find it, this one maybe? (not from @nikivi though)

Nice, thanks. Anyway to execute the action directly from the clipboard history? I have a shortcut to open the clipboard history and ideally I would like to press shift+enter for example to paste the specific clipboard entry expanded as ({clipboard})[https://servername.domain.com/ref={clipboard}].

Hello all, I'm looking for a simple way to replace the content of my clipboard with and "expanded" version of it, based on simple rules. Example: content of clipboard is {clipboard}, replace with ({clipboard})[https://servername.domain.com/ref={clipboard}] I find myself very often handling specific ticket IDs, or IDs of many kinds and I want to passed them as hyperlink in emails, chats, etc. The hyperlink has always the exact same structure, only the ticket ID, ID, reference ID, etc. changes. Any idea on how to do this with as many keystrokes as possible?

I have the same message but with "loginwindow" being the culprit. No idea what that is. Is it possible it is still Chrome?

I am still at step “find the culprit” right now. Are you saying it could still be Chrome? Quitting the app will not disable secure entry?

Since upgrading to Sierra, Alfred always shows (under snippets) the following red message: "loginwindow seems to be preventing text expansion by locking secure entry". Text expansion does not work. Not only for Alfred, but for every text expansion programme. Even the macOS own text snippets (keyboard system pref) does not work. Now, I thought it was Chrome due to issue 258882. But quitting Chrome doesn't fix it. Rebooting the computer does of course, but I was not able to find another solution so far. Any suggestions?

Solved! I thought Alfred would follow aliases... Thanks a lot.

Hello all, I added an a microsd card to my macbook because I was running out of space and “aliases” a couple of folders to the sd card. Now, Spotlight can find these files but not Alfred. Even when using the “replacement file filter” workflow from Andrew Pepperrell. The SD card is formatted as an encrypted HFS+ volume (which makes it very slow btw, if anyone was wondering, but enough for simple files.) Any idea? I reindexed (and even removed the .spotlight-V100 file, but not luck.

It seems you are right, this is a spotlight issue. Spotlight also can't find my pdf called “123-guide.pdf” (without quotes of course) when I type “123 guide” without quote in spotlight's search field. I re-indexed spotlight from Alfred (even deleted the .Spotlight-V100 file), but no luck, that didn't change anything. It works with the workflow though, pretty nice. Thanks!

I can do with or without leading space, same result. Dashes somehow are not recognised as word separators...

Hello, I noticed that if I have a file names word1-word2.txt, Alfred will not find it when I type “word1 word2”. If I replace the dash with an underline, it works. How can I convince Alfred to look at dashes like word separators? I have fuzzy matching turned on, but I believe this only have an impact for .app files anyway. Any idea? I unfortunately get a lot of pdf named-like-this, and renaming each one is annoying... Cheers,

how to I paste in plain text while navigating the clipboard history? The workflow mentioned here only paste the last copied items as plain text. I want to navigate the history, press enter and copy as plain text. It that possible?