Chilichiller

I was just logging into the Alfred Forum to ask about almost the same thing. Would be nice to exclude some files of a specific file extension.

Ah, if you have a symlink like this, try adding the specific folders you want in your home folder to Alfred's search scope (don't just add the home folder as this will include ~/Library which can be a bit messy)

Yes, that works, great. Now I just have to remember to add any new folder in Alfreds Preferences.

Thanks,

Martin

A possible reason is maybe that I do have a unusual configuration of my home folder, as I do have the system an a SSD and the home folder symlinked on a hard drive (Macintosh_HD). This console snippet make that clear:

macbookpro:Users pollow$ pwd
/Users
macbookpro:Users pollow$ ls -la pollow
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  34 10 Nov  2012 pollow -> /Volumes/Macintosh_HD/Users/pollow

Best,

Martin

Could you check your OS X Spotlight privacy preferences to see if any folders are listed in there. Also, grab this little tool and drag one of the files which isn't being found into it:

 

http://cachefly.alfredapp.com/tools/AlfredMetadataTool_v1.0.zip

 

and let me know the outcome

 

Cheers,

Andrew

 

[moving to the help subforum]

Thanks for the quick help. There was one single folder in the privacy options of spotlight, which I temporarily removed now. Actually no file at all is found (so I assume the reason it is not the metadata of a specific file), but I picked one of the files and here comes the output of your tool:

/Volumes/Macintosh_HD/Users/pollow/python.m

Internal File Metadata
======================

 Display Name: python.m
    Alt Names: 
    File Type: public.objective-c-source
     Comments: 
     Keywords: 
    Last Used: 

Raw mdls File Metadata
======================

kMDItemContentCreationDate     = 2013-01-05 18:59:30 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2013-01-05 19:05:02 +0000
kMDItemContentType             = "public.objective-c-source"
kMDItemContentTypeTree         = (
    "public.objective-c-source",
    "public.source-code",
    "public.plain-text",
    "public.text",
    "public.data",
    "public.item",
    "public.content"
)
kMDItemDateAdded               = 2013-01-05 18:59:30 +0000
kMDItemDisplayName             = "python.m"
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate     = 2013-01-05 19:05:02 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate          = 2013-01-05 18:59:30 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode           = "MATL"
kMDItemFSFinderFlags           = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon         = 0
kMDItemFSInvisible             = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden     = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery          = 0
kMDItemFSLabel                 = 0
kMDItemFSName                  = "python.m"
kMDItemFSNodeCount             = 2824
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID          = 20
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID           = 501
kMDItemFSSize                  = 2824
kMDItemFSTypeCode              = "MATF"
kMDItemKind                    = "MATLAB Code"
kMDItemLogicalSize             = 2824
kMDItemPhysicalSize            = 4096

Best,

Martin

Hi...

after switching from Alfred v1 to v2 I have issues with finding files while these files are found using Spotlight. I studied and tested all points at the specific help site for search issues (http://support.alfredapp.com/kb:indexing) and tested also to manually rebuild the index with

sudo rm -R /.Spotlight-V100
sudo mdutil -i on /
sudo mdutil -E /

No success. I cannot find any of my files using the whitespace, the "find" or the "open" command. Setting in the preferences are the default settings with "Include folders in home folder" checked.

Any idea what can be wrong?

Best,

Martin