tdenson

I have bumped this thread because I have moved to another Mac and am having exactly the same problem. However this time the above remedy didn't work.

And incidentally the curious behaviour of not being able to untick the preference has gone away

Thank you very much. Removing the preference and re-adding it did the trick.

I just mean that it echos the trigger word, in this particular case "`e" which is meant to expand to my email address.

2 hours ago, Vero said:

@tdenson We've also been testing Alfred in Big Sur on an M1 Mac, and it's working as expected, so it's likely your issue is more of a permissions one.

 

- Which version of Alfred are you using?

4.2.1 Universal (1186)

- Have you granted Alfred all necessary permissions? https://www.alfredapp.com/help/getting-started/permissions/ (Try removing Alfred 4 altogether and re-adding, in case there's any corruption of permissions in macOS)

Yes and I have uninstalled and reinstalled Alfred. Although there is a strange thing with Mac Preferences. I cannot untick Alfred in the Accessibility option (I was trying to toggle it)

- Are snippets enabled in Alfred's preferences?

Yes, and they worked on the machine I have migrated from and whose preferences I have imported via DropBox

- Is the specific snippet you're trying to use enabled for expansion?

Yes

- When you try to expand a snippet, at what stage does it fail? E.g. Does the snippet disappear and nothing is pasted, or does the snippet keyword not disappear either?

It echos the keyword such as `e - I use ` for snippets.

- Does the issue occur in all apps or only some apps? Test in TextEdit, which is one of the simplest apps, as some more complex apps or browsers have their own clipboard management or behaviours that may cause issues

True in all apps, as it happens I always use Textedit for testing

- Do you use any third-party clipboard managers or snippets tools that may be interfering?

No

 

And BTW all my other imported features such as workflows are working.

I've just migrated my Alfred settings to an M1 Mac and everything is OK apart from snippets not working. I have enabled accessibility as required but still no joy. Anything else I am missing ?

I would drag the app into the workflow editor from Alfred.

 

Bring up the editor, click the workflow you're going to edit, and double click the 'Launch Apps / Files' object you want to change. Then, open Alfred, type "Finder", and drag the Finder into the object you just opened; Note: you may need to drag Alfred's window out of the way.

 

Cheers; I hope this takes some of the complexity out of Alfred 2

I would drag the app into the workflow editor from Alfred.

 

Bring up the editor, click the workflow you're going to edit, and double click the 'Launch Apps / Files' object you want to change. Then, open Alfred, type "Finder", and drag the Finder into the object you just opened; Note: you may need to drag Alfred's window out of the way.

 

Cheers; I hope this takes some of the complexity out of Alfred 2

 

Thanks very much. It was just a case of knowing where Finder is located. Now sorted.

I have just upgraded to V2 and am a bit dismayed by the extra complexity

One thing I am struggling with is hotkeys. It seems you have to drag apps to the "launch file group from hotkey" window. However Finder is not a standard app. How do I do this ? I saw another reference to this in the forum but didn't understand the answer as I don't have the same menu options. The helpfile doesn't seem to help either.