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
 

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That would require a huge database and essentially replicating a mini Spotlight.

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...

1 hour ago, vitor said:

 

I don’t get what you’re asking for.

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?