david96161

I will check the other steps as you suggest. As for Dropbox being available offline, please note my point that the behavior is sporadic. It wasn’t finding the files, and then it was, then it wasn't. (N.B. Now, the next morning, all Dropbox-located folders are appearing again.) At no time in that sequence did the online/offline status of a single Dropbox file or folder change. Also note that Spotlight is finding everything consistently. HoudahSpot was, then it wasn't, then it was. It ain't Dropbox. The loss of the Contacts cards from search corroborates this. Contacts are on the root drive, not Dropbox. If it were a Dropbox online/offline issue, the Contacts cards would not have disappeared from search results. I don't believe it's even related [much] to Alfred. It seems to be a Spotlight indexing issue.

I have bad news. Another migration assistant casualty. Just got new M3 MBP. Alfred was working fine, and is still working fine, on my older M2 MBP. Both running Sonoma 14.4. Alfred finds folders down to a certain level: [Root]>[User]>[Dropbox]>[DB Folder One]. But stops there. It will not find subfolders in [DB Folder one.] I found another topic that went through all of this exhaustively on Monterey, and I did all of the troubleshooting steps that people tried there. Including the following: 1. Created test user. Spotlight found the subfolders there. Alfred did not. 2. Tried Spotlight on normal user profile. Spotlight finds subfolders, Alfred does not. 3. Reindexed Spotlight. It worked for about 20 minutes and then reverted to the same behavior. Subfolders that it found 20 minutes ago are now not found. Though are still found by Spotlight. Before I went through the above, Houdahspot was not finding the subfolders. It worked after reindexing, and now appears to be holding steady. HS and Spotlight are still finding the subfolders, but Alfred is not. And it gets progressively worse. The subfolders that it cannot find are names of clients. For a while it did find the contacts cards of the clients, though not the folders. In the time it has taken me to write and edit this post, it has lost track of the contacts cards as well. Ppl talking about a manual install. Of what or which? Sonoma? The documents folders? Alfred? Everything? As in wipe the drive and start over?