kerrydawson

Oh yes I only use the Mac apps Contacts Addressbook. I do know though everything goes through iCloud now and has for quite some time. 

No errors this time but no output either:

For some reason it left the folder we had moved to but I pasted the command in from the prompt where it was and got the following result:

Does any of this help.

Copied the image off my site so you could see what I see.

This is what I see when I use your memail command:

Yes I have more than one Peter’s. So I did what you said and it just came back to the prompt but with no error.

Yes,

Had to run. When I type in:

OK so here’s what I typed and I don’t think there are any errors. However, how do I take a look at the contents of temp.names. It certainly doesn’t exist in finder under ~kerrysdawson>library>application Support> Alfred 2

Last login: Mon Apr 29 10:13:47 on console

Kerrys-iMac:~ kerrysdawson$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Alfred\ 2/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows

What is the exact error? 

(Also, please check if this file exists for you  ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb )

 

Further note for those who are facing problems:

1) Launch a terminal and go to the workflow folder

2) There is a shell script called "search.sh" there - run it with "sh ./search.sh <firstname>" where <firstname> is some name (or subset of a same) in your contacts app

3) Check file temp.names to see if it correctly found all entries with that <firstname> substring. If it did not, then we have a problem with the address book name

To address the first question there is no error so to speak but rather when you type in memail name the name doesn’t come up underneath as in your diagram but rather a folder that says send. As you add names this folder send doesn’t change.

On point 1.

Where and exactly how do you want me to get to that folder. If you want me to do via terminal, then I need to know exactly what it is I’m typing as I have no idea where the workflow folder is located and how you get to it.

On point 2:

I think I know what I need to write once I find that shell script.

On point 3:

This is I guess dependent on the first 2. However, I was looking at your script /usr/bin/perl ./findaddr.pl "{query}" and the addr struct me as possibly the problem but I don’t understand any kind of scripting language at all. So I really need to be walked through all of this.

Kerry

OK thanks I’ll do that.

Kerry

I can’t get this to work except in a couple of things. It keeps switching to wanting to do a web search.

I’m not sure this was a wise purchase for me but I had to investigate. I want to do something I think that is very simple as a workflow and that would be to create a new email and say populate the to: to three email addresses as an example. In Keyboard Maestro its not totally straightforward but easy once you know how to put the macro together. I kind of thought this system was supposed to be simpler but with all the scripting and stuff it looks wicked.

Am I right? Or am I just not approaching this correctly. Now this is a real simple for Keyboard Maestro. The complicated stuff isn’t even that difficult. Its just a matter of making sure your macros are properly in line and flow properly. You can actually just record everything you do then edit out the stuff in the Macro that isn’t logical. I haven’t got a clue how you even do this what seems to me to be a very simple thing.