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Thanks, vitor. It is helpful to know that this could be related to the preferences file. I think that my preferences file was already set to "Make available offline", but I have confirmed that and I will post an update if/when the problem returns.

Hi - I'm using Alfred on three different Macs. The three systems are basically the same, all running Alfred 5.5 with macOS 14.4 on an Apple M1 or M2. My files are synced across the three via Dropbox. On one of them, I have updated Dropbox to use the "File Provider" API; on the other two, I'm still using the older sync method. On the updated one, Alfred's file search is often quite slow to return results and sometimes completely fails to return anything. The other two systems do not have this problem, which makes me think that it must be somehow related to Dropbox. The problem is irregular, making it hard to pin down. I have fiddled with Alfred's settings and rebuilt the Spotlight index more than once, but it hasn't really helped. This has made me quite reluctant to update Dropbox on the other two systems, but eventually I will have to. Any thoughts / suggestions would be greatly appreciated? Thanks!

File search seems not to understand the hyphen (-) as a normal character. For example, I have thousands of files with names like "lubbers-prl-2014.pdf" and "lovoll-pre-2004.pdf". A file search for "prl" or "pre" will find them, along with lots of other things, but a file search for "-prl-" or "-pre-" will not. I think this used to work, but the behavior seems to have changed. How can I change this back? There may just be a relevant setting hiding somewhere...

Hi Andrew - Perfect, that did it. Thanks! Best, Chris

Hi - I want to use Alfred to quickly access a folder, but many of my folders have fairly generic names like "Notes" or "Resources" and they don't come up in the top however-many file search results. Is there a way to limit a search to folders, or to raise the priority of folders in the list of search results? Thanks! Best, Chris