DJF3

It is working now (after pointing Alfred 5 to the config folder that contained the Alfred 3 settings)

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tnx for the quick response btw.

help.

Just installed Alfred 5 (upgrading from Alfred 3). 

The migration wizard asked if I wanted to migrate. Yes I do. A ZIP file was created and the option "Synced" was already checked. I continued assuming that my settings would be migrated. Now everything is gone? 

I do have the ZIP file containing what I think is the Alfred 3 settings & workflows.

What to do next? 
:-) 

Besides spotlight, it's still strange that

- with the last dash in the name the file is not found

- without that dash the file is found

- when searching for *CreateHeader all are found.

So these files can be found, it just appears to be the dash that does something weird?

Out of interest, does mdimport /my/file/path have the same effect?

Well... it comes with a gigantic error message that I'll investigate:

It still works as described in my first post.. Have no clue where to look for the problem ;-)

 

DJ

UPDATE: right now my SPOTLIGHT search also seems to have the below problem... So I'll investigate that first.

File: 2015-02feb-Jive-CreateHeader-3.xlsx - not found when searching 'CreateHeader'

rename file

File: 2015 02feb Jive CreateHeader 3.xlsx - FOUND when searching 'CreateHeader'

rename file

File: 2015-02feb-Jive-CreateHeader-3.xlsx - not found when searching 'CreateHeader'

rename file (no '-3' at the end)

File: 2015-02feb-Jive-CreateHeader.xlsx - FOUND when searching 'CreateHeader'

rename file (no dash at the end)

File: 2015-02feb-Jive-CreateHeader03.xlsx - FOUND when searching 'CreateHeader'

tried with a couple of other XLS files: same result

;-)

I've had a bit of a play with this and it should work fine...

 

 

 

Could you try creating a folder on your desktop called "bananas-alfredtest", wait a few seconds for this to be indexed by OS X, then open Alfred and type:

 

[spacebar]alfredtest

 

... where [spacebar] just means pressing space before typing alfredtest. This will insert a ' before the file search and put Alfred into file search mode.

 

If this doesn't find the file, could you download the Alfred metadata tool and drag the file not being found into it so I can see the output:

 

https://cachefly.alfredapp.com/tools/AlfredMetadataTool_v1.1.zip

 

Cheers,

Andrew

The alfredtest worked fine! I have send you a PM with the metadata tool result for the file I used in the initial tests.

Are you still having this issue? Alfred should definitely be finding this file based on the search criteria you provided. I just touched a quick file, named the exact same thing and Alfred finds it just as expected. I would have suggested reindexing but it seems that he does seem to find it other ways.

It still works as described in my first post.. Have no clue where to look for the problem ;-)

DJ

Team,

Couldn't find a similar topic so here's my question:

When seaching for a file (just typing part of the name or using 'find' + part of the name Alfred doesn't show the files. Example.

FILE NAME: 2015-Aug-CreateHeader-01.xls

SPOTLIGHT: type "createhea" -- found

ALFRED:       type "createhea" -- no result

ALFRED:       type "2015-Aug-Cre" -- found

ALFRED:       type "*createhea" -- found

Is this works as designed? Configurable feature? PBKAC? (problem between keyboard and chair)

This appears to be a workflow with huge potential.. The one thing that comes to mind...

How safe/secure is this workflow?

How safe/secure is this compared to other integrations, other tools, browsers integrated with lastpass, etc.

In theory, this workflow has full access to all your passwords, right?

Please, convince me to use this!

DJ

What version of Growl and Alfred are you running? I don't use Growl a lot anymore since notification center and such but I just tested Alfred 2.1 (218) with current version of Growl in the Mac App Store (2.1.3) and everything seemed to work as expected. Let me know what versions and we'll try to get it figured out. If I can't, I'll consult with Andrew and see if he has any ideas as well.

Growl: App-store 2.1.3

Alfred: 2.1 (218)

OSX: 10.8.5

Just re-installed Growl can't couldn't reporduce within 2 minutes (all the time I have today for testing ;-(  )

Hi,

When I want to display a Growl notification, 100s of them appear on my screen.

Pages and pages, all with the same notification.

   The only way to stop this is by quitting Growl.

> OSX notifications: only 1 is displayed

OSX Notification disadvantage: only 2 lines are displayed which for my plugin is useless.

The notification content comes from PHP code which is started from a bash script. Snippet:

RET=$(php -f ~/Library/Application\ Support/Alfred/extensions/scripts/appname/scriptname.php -- "{query}")

echo $RET >> test.txt
echo $RET

So the 'echo $RET' generates 100s of Growl notifications but

the echo $RET >> test.txt shows only the content that it's supposed to show.

Update: there's an interesting entry in the system logs:

11/6/13 3:47:01.637  Alfred 2[1183]: Failed to notify due to missing registration, queue and reregister

Any idea?

Ah, I understand.. Thank you for the quick response.

Alfredworkflow.com isn't run by the Alfred team and so feature requests for it should be directed to the original author rather than posting here.

Office doesn't publish its recent documents in a way that can be read by other applications like Alfred, so you won't see the full list of files opened in Office apps. However, Alfred will present you with all of the Office documents you've opened with Alfred.

Thank you!

Some feedback for the http://alfredworkflow.com/ website:

• Add 'date added/updated' that you can sort on so it's easy to see what's new/changed
• Add 'download counter' or 'likes' so people can sort-on/see popularity

Keep up the good work!

DJ

You've found your answer but it's worth mentioning that if you open the Office files using Alfred, you'll see a list of these recent documents

Ok, so it's official that Alfred will not show (for example) the Recent files that Excel has in the "recent documents" entry of Alfred?

That's a shame. It would be very good if it would pickup the recent files from Excel/Word/Powerpoint