I have tried all mentioned solutions: widened the scope, reindexed spotlight, followed all troubleshooting guides concerning this subject. Nothing helped. Troubleshooting report in Alfred 5 is saying, that my files on the external drive exist within Alfred's scope, but the very same files are NEVER shown in a search with Alfred! Needless to say that Spotlight on the same computer shows all files. It's really frustrating.
Below is the output of Alfred's own troubleshooting for a file called Fractal1.png. Alfred is not showing this file as a result if I search for it. I tried searching with a part of the name, with the whole name (uppercase/lowercase), with the prefix 'open', with spacebar...
If I move the file to the internal drive it occurs in the results immediately. Alfred is ignoring it just on my external drive.
How can I convince Alfred that he has to show me files on the external drive, too?
Starting Diagnostics...
File: 'Fractal1.png'
Path: '/Volumes/Daten/Dropbox/Bilder/Fractals'
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Check file cache database...
✅ File cache integrity is ok
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Check if file is readable...
✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file.
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Check if volume '/Volumes/Daten/' is indexed by macOS...
✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive
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Check direct file metadata...
✅ Direct metadata available
Display Name: Fractal1.png
Other Names:
Content Type: public.png
Last Used:
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Check mdls file metadata...
✅ Metadata contains required items
_kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "Fractal1.png"
kMDItemBitsPerSample = 24
kMDItemColorSpace = "RGB"
kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2012-12-22 07:17:02 +0000
kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2012-12-22 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2012-12-22 07:17:02 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate_Ranking = 2012-12-22 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemContentType = "public.png"
kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
"public.png",
"public.image",
"public.data",
"public.item",
"public.content"
)
kMDItemDateAdded = 2022-02-07 15:36:30 +0000
kMDItemDateAdded_Ranking = 2022-02-07 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemDisplayName = "Fractal1.png"
kMDItemDocumentIdentifier = 0
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2012-12-22 07:17:02 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2012-12-22 07:17:02 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null)
kMDItemFSInvisible = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null)
kMDItemFSLabel = 0
kMDItemFSName = "Fractal1.png"
kMDItemFSNodeCount = (null)
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 99
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 99
kMDItemFSSize = 798188
kMDItemFSTypeCode = ""
kMDItemHasAlphaChannel = 0
kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2012-12-22 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemKind = "PNG-Bild"
kMDItemLogicalSize = 798188
kMDItemOrientation = 0
kMDItemPhysicalSize = 798720
kMDItemPixelCount = 360000
kMDItemPixelHeight = 450
kMDItemPixelWidth = 800
kMDItemProfileName = "Adobe RGB (1998)"
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Check file is in search scope...
✅ File exists within Alfred's default search scope
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✅ Troubleshooting passed