SignurGian

I finally found a solution for my problem:

I withdraw full disk access from Alfred, restarted the app, and then granted full disk access, again. This somehow put something in the right place. Alfred is now showing all files within its search scope.

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