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Cool! I haven't gotten a chance to check it out since Alfred 5 landed. I will look at that. If Alfred can make workflow building something the common person can do, that would be a huge leap forward in benefits over something like Raycast (in addition to the greater efficiency). Exciting to think about! I lightly used Alfred years ago and recently got back into it a month ago but checked out Raycast at the same time. It's definitely new and shiny and clearly has the benefits of venture capital backing but I think Alfred is much more efficient to use if you're actually trying to be productive minimizing keystrokes with core tasks. I decided to double-down on Alfred at that point with a Mega Supporter license. The more we can organize the workflow access the better we can compete with Raycast. I love the idea of taking it a step further and enabling the common person to build their own workflows with good documentation and tutorials.

That did it! Thank you so much. I didn't realize it has entries in the Automation category. Makes sense though.

Good to know! I didn't realize that! Makes sense. I love how intuitive Alfred is. Yeah, I've only started with building the simplest workflows like URL shortcuts. They feel pretty daunting to me since I'm not a programmer. Interesting idea though! I love the power it has! Just not sure how to get into it without knowing how to program. I've heard about Hazel in the past but have never used it. Didn't think about it's application here but that could be helpful! I'll check into it more. Thanks!

Hi, I just tried to use the email function from Alfred for the first time and it prompted me to give Alfred access to create messages in the Mail.app client. I accidentally hit "Cancel" on that prompt. Now I can't get it to prompt me again. When I use the Email function it just opens Mail.app but sits at the inbox screen without creating a message. Demonstrated here in a video. My attempts to solve the problem so far: I've looked in the Alfred settings where it prompts for permissions but I've already granted all that access and I see nothing about Mail.app. I've also gone to my MacOS System Preferences and looked through the Security and Privacy pane to grant permissions but I'm not seeing anything for Mail.app there. Finally, I've gone to Mail.app preferences as well to see if there is a setting to grant permissions but I'm not seeing anything. How do I invoke this prompt for access? Thanks!

@vitor I did not realize I could drill up or down into directories using ⌘↑ or ⌘↓. Thank you! The thing I was still unclear on is how to then paste the file into that directory once I get there. I realize now though that the function for that is in the Action Items menu for the file in the Buffer. I can choose either "Copy [With Replace] to..." or "Paste [With Replace] to..." options and they will then paste the file into the directory I choose. I've demonstrated in this video. Super helpful! I think some of this basic functionality could benefit from being included in the tutorial for using File Search, Navigation, and Buffer features. I feel like this is more basic than sending files from Buffer to an email which I see in tutorials constantly. I also see now this is simply a basic action on any file and if I'm actioning the file directly from Finder to begin with, I don't even need to put it in the buffer. I can just action the file and then choose the destination to move to directly. I suppose the Buffer would only be needed if I was trying to copy a group of files to a single destination.

Hi, I've been looking for a solution for this off and on for months and surprisingly haven't found anything specific in the forums, on google, or on Youtube. I don't know if I'm missing something or what. Here's my situation: I frequently download files that need to be put into folders on my company's shared google drive (which I have connected with the google drive client). Without Alfred, I would normally open two Finder windows side-by-side, the first being the downloads folder and the other being the destination folder. I would open the destination folder window by navigating through the folder structure visually using the mouse. Obviously, this takes time. I want to use Alfred to speed this process up. I've learned how to navigate the folder structure from Alfred and I've learned how to add files to the buffer and action them. However, I do not see how to replicate the normal ability to copy a file from one location and paste it to the destination that I navigate to. This seems like basic functionality so I'm assuming I'm missing something. How do I accomplish this? Clarifications: After copying the file it appears that all I can do is search for a destination folder. As I stated above, I need to move the downloaded files to *different* folders all the time. The destination is rarely the same. Therefore, I do *not* have the destination folder names memorized nor do I plan on memorizing them. Therefore the search feature to find the destination folder is useless to me. I need to visually navigate to the destination each time, where I then want to paste the file from the buffer. Please see this example on video where I demonstrate my issue. If there are existing forum topics already handling this specific issue that I missed when I searched for them, feel free to let me know and we can close out this redundant entry.

Have there been any attempts to update Alfred's code on this issue since 2018? I'm still seeing the same issue with Alfred creating multiple playlists in iTunes. Is there no way to just turn off the playlist feature for Alfred Music Mini Player? I don't need them. I just want to play music. I'm happy to play through whole albums or all the songs for a particular artist. I don't see why a playlist would be needed to do that if I don't need a playlist to do that in iTunes/Music. I unchecked the "Use Alfred Playlist" setting on the Advanced tab of the Music Mini Player settings but it is still creating playlists. Screenshot attached. I'm not sure what the iTunes "Matching" feature referred to in this thread years ago was, but I am using Apple Music, synced through iCloud across multiple devices and I've subscribed to Apple Music in addition to my local library of ripped music. It seemed like "Matching" was being considered some kind of new and optional service back in 2018 but all the iCloud syncing and Apple Music services are obviously here to stay at this point so if they were causing any conflicts, I'm assuming that is now going to be addressed as it is the norm? I'm running macOS 12.4 and Alfred 4.6.6 on a 2019 16" Macbook Pro. Thanks!