Thomas8677

Hi Vero, as stated above - reindexing and widening of search scope did not help at first (nor did adding a second user and then deleting it again which another thread suggested). It is crucial, though, to actually restart your mac after rebuilding the index was finished. Once I rebooted, everything turned back to normal, even my file search workflow started working again. Thanks for the help, sorry for the fuzz. Not 100% sure, what steps where actually necessary to fix the issue, but don't forget a final reboot 🙂

Ok, more weird things are happening. I just tried spotlight ... it found spotify.app when I entered "spo" - but only one time. On consecutive search also spotlight stopped showing apps altogether. I see, why the problem is probably the access to the index database (as stated before: file search troubleshoot reports all is well), but I don't have any peculiarities in the spotlight preference pane (all types checked, no folders excluded)

Ideas anyone? After reindexing Alfred is now pretty much useless. It shows no applications at all, I've been using it for 11 years and feel pretty much lost without it. File Search Troubleshooting gives me green checkmarks on all applications I drop on (Spotify, Sublime, Brave Browser, etc.) I really need help, my workflow centers around Alfred as a launcher. I know, that I can hit F4 and search in Launchpad, but I don't like it 😊

Ok, quick update. I've started reindexing and checked Spotlight to see the progress. It took more than 2 hours (on a MBP Pro M1 with 16GB) - the indexing is now finished. But not a single Application appears in Alfred's search, although the troubleshooting check says "✅ Troubleshooting passed". I tried resetting the scope and extending it again, but nothing worked. I'm out of ideas at this point.

Hello Vero, first of all, thanks for your help. but I've already advanced a couple of steps further and now created even more problems 😄 I tried the Monterey-related scope changes (found those before you posted and extended the scope to "/"), but that did not help me with my issue. So then I started a deep reindex via sudo mdutil -i on /. After waiting for an hour or so, certain applications (like VNC viewer) are not being found anymore and the workflow still does not find anything either. Example: When I type vnc -> I only get the "search google for vnc", but when I type /Applications/vnc -> it shows VNC viewer ... so I guess it is still indexing? Alfred's troubleshooting file thing shows me VNC viewer is indexed, though. I sent the diagnostics file and a troubleshoot output for VNC viewer. Thank you.

Hey there, I'm a day one mega supporter and never had any problems so far. It just worked. Now after a recent computer change and upgrading to Monterey, a (very basic) workflow no longer functions. I used a template from Files and Apps called "file filter from keyword and open" - search scope is a Dropbox subfolder. Until now it allowed me to search inside the subfolder and open a file. Now, when I type the keyword (fl), it shows the filter's name (Freelance) - I hit space, everything still looks fine, but as soon as I enter any query, it changes to "search google for 'fl <query>'". I've recreated the workflow, still won't work. Can somebody please help?