jlgtx

I'm trying to get Google Drive indexing to work for me. I'm on macOS 13.3. Example case: I have thousands of song files in various formats (text, PDF, PowerPoint, etc.) in a folder structure. If I do a Spotlight search on a local copy of that folder structure for a word, let's say "wondrous," I get 185 hits from filenames and file contents. If I do a Spotlight search on that same folder structure in the Google Drive folder, I get zero hits -- even though that folder is tagged as "available offline" in Google Drive settings. If I login to Google Drive in a web browser and do the same search, I get 112 hits. If I use "gd wondrous" in Alfred (5.0.6 with Google Drive workflow v2023.6), I get 20 hits. ### Workflow version 2023.6 ### Alfred version 5.0.6 ### macOS version 13.3 ### Architecture arm64 ### Preferences Dict { google_drive_path = ~/Library/CloudStorage/GoogleDrive-jon@cardioquip.com } ### Full Disk Access Granted ### Google drive path Exists: /Users/jon/Library/CloudStorage/GoogleDrive-jon@cardioquip.com 165764 paths ### Cache dir cache.db ### Cache file 16777232 183443887 -rw-r--r-- 1 jon staff 0 42512384 "Mar 29 13:29:28 2023" "Mar 29 13:28:07 2023" "Mar 29 13:28:07 2023" "Mar 29 13:26:53 2023" 4096 84008 0 /Users/jon/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Data/com.alfredapp.vitor.googledrive/cache.db ### Temporary cache Does NOT exist ### Build progress NOT running ### Launchd job Loaded: - 0 com.alfredapp.vitor.googledrive Installed

That's sort of exactly what this page claims that this plugin does. It's the very reason I spent the money to purchase Alfred in the first place. At the time, this was the only way to get any kind of Finder-level indexing of DFS. But now Google Drive has better Spotlight support than Alfred...

I'm asking for the plugin to (optionally) maintain an index not just of file/folder names, but of file content. If I search for "cheese," I want to see anything with "cheese" in the name, and also anything with "cheese" anywhere in the contents of the file itself. I was surprised to find that Google Drive's Spotlight integration actually does seem to include content indexing. I haven't pushed it very hard, but it did find the cheese when the Alfred plugin didn't.

Now Google Drive has the "Enable Spotlight to search streaming files" option (disabled by default and buried in the settings, because what the heck Google?!), which means that DFS is now up to, what, early 2000's feature set? So, what are the odds that you could add an option to do full content indexing to this workflow? That's really the nice thing about Spotlight, after all. If I remembered what I named the dang file/folder, I'd probably already know where it was, right?