ElisabethOrme

Dear @Vero, thank you for your quick and exhaustive answer. I now understand the problem and can absolutely work with one of your workarounds. To answer your and @Stephen_C's question - I already maintain quite the list of snippets that are syncronized to my mobile devices by iCloud, so I'm reluctant to start another list in another place I consider this issue closed - thank you!

Hi everyone, please note that my macOS is in German, so I might not get all of menus translated perfectly I rely heavily on macOS's text replacement feature. My name and email address are quite long, so i use a shortcut for those, among other things. "xyz" is expanded to my email address, "shruggie" to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, whenever I write text in a text application or text field. Whenever I'm in an app without text expansion, like the terminal, I like to get alfred's help by just opening alfred, typing the text, let macOS expand it, copy it out and get on with my day. That has worked 100% - until I tried it with the tilde (~). Alfred crashes whenever I write "tilde" in alfred and macOS offers the replacement text (~). I haven't tried with other special chars, since I couldn't get alfred to recover and had to reboot my mac every time! Steps to reproduce: 1. open macOS system settings, go to text replacements, enter a new entry replacing the text "tilde" with the char ~ 2. open a text editor and verify, that the replacement works properly on typing "tilde" 3. open alfred and type "tilde" and wait a few seconds, until macOS shows the replacement option - this is when alfred crashes every time I tried. Versions: Alfred 5.1.3 [2175] macOS Version 14.0 (23A344) Screenshot: In the screenshot you see how I end up when trying that, alfred being stuck like that, on top of other windows, uncloseable and unrecoverable. (Side question: how do I force quit and reboot alfred?) Btw. I don't know if alfred was meant to be used that way, but it has been truly helpful for me most of the time Thank you for your time and your help!

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Hi Andrew Thanks for cleaning up. No, I never set up any syncing. Thingking about it probably doesn't count I also have not tried reinstalling Alfred2. (If I have to do that, need to backup Alfred first.) Appreciate your help. Sarah

Hi there First let me thank you for your great product. Love it. It's a real damper on my productivity that my custom searches are gone. Problem: After an Update my custom web searches ceased to work. They used o work fine after the Upgade from v1 to v2. Then I realized that they didn't show any more under Features/Web Search. Now when I create a new custom search it works fine until i shut Alfred2 down. After a restart, only the built in searches show in the list, the rest is gone and doesn't work any more. Info: I still have Alfred1 in Applications/ but an import doesn't work. When I edit a Workflow, the timestamp on the folder Application Support/Alfred 2/ changes to now, when creating a new custom web search, it doesn't. The folder Application Support/Alfred/ is also still there but not affected. What you were doing when the issue happened: After the update to v2.0.6(203) I started noticing the problem. Whether you were able to replicate it a second time by performing the same action Yup. Include any screenshots that might help us Please let me know what would be helpful. Include the Alfred version & build number you are using Now I use v2.0.7(205). Same problem. Include your OS X version 10.8.4 Before I realized the gravity of the situation, I had asked in the forum for help. Now that would be obsolete: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/2979-custom-searches-gone-after-update/ Thanks, Sarah