alexh2

Yes indeed, it will be the same commands as above but the first one you'll need to cd to the location of Alfred.alfredpreferences in your Dropbox. Mine is stored in ~/Dropbox/Alfred so I would type:

 

cd ~/Dropbox/Alfred

 

then run the xattr and chmod commands. Where have you set your sync folder to exactly and I can help you get to the correct folder in terminal.

 

Cheers,

Andrew

Mine is also set to ~/Dropbox/Alfred. But when i use the xattr and chmod commands, terminal keeps saying that the operations are not permitted.

 

There may be a permissions issue preventing Alfred from deleting the workflows, perhaps pasting the following (bold things) in Terminal.app:

 

Firstly, go to the Alfred 2 folder (this is the folder if you don't have Syncing setup):

cd Library/Application\ Support/Alfred\ 2/

 

Next, remove any extended attributes on Alfred's prefs:

xattr -rc Alfred.alfredpreferences

 

Finally, reset the permissions on Alfred's prefs:

chmod -R u+rwX,go+rX Alfred.alfredpreferences

 

Things should now work as expected

 

Cheers,

Andrew

 

Sorry for the late reply. I have my settings synced to Dropbox again. Is there still a way to fix the permissions?

What's the point of having remote access to System Controls when you still have to be at your computer? When I want to quit all apps or shut down my computer, a dialog box pops up asking me to confirm the action.

It's probably a safety measure or something, but it completely misses the point of remote controls. I thought the remote app was supposed to be used away from my computer not while I'm still at my computer. 

Hi Alex, 

 

Are you syncing your settings? If workflows aren't being deleted, it's possible that you have a permissions issue on your Mac, meaning that Alfred can't delete files in your Dropbox folder.

 

Pop up Alfred's preferences to the Workflows tab, right-click on your workflow and choose "Show in Finder". Then manually delete the workflow from Finder. It should then disappear from Alfred a few seconds later.

 

Cheers,

Vero

That works. And I just checked if I was syncing my settings, but I'm not. I thought I did have a folder set in Dropbox for sync, but I don't.

I was trying to delete some workflows, but when I closed and opened the preferences window again, all the "deleted" workflows were back. I tried to delete them a couple of times, but they kept coming back.

Alfred version: v2.5.1 (308)

OS X version: 10.10.1 Yosemite

Is there a way to change these default search engines?

Could I, for example, change Google to DuckDuckGo as search engine? And is it possible to change the Amazon search engine as well? Because I don't have any use for it.

I tried setting up my last.fm account but it keeps saying 'Authentication failed!'. And this is with Filipe's version.