andreas0

I'm on 12.0.1 and it seems like the one thing I ruled out from the beginning seems to fix things: Rebuilding the index

EDIT: This can be done through the Alfred preferences -> "Advanced" -> "Rebuild macOS Metadata" (I did not delete the Spotlight files)

Reindexing is still running but it looks like it works and I'm curious if it does help other users affected by this too.

A few more observations:

• The file search results do indeed include folders - but only the ones in the user directory. Nested folders do not show up
• The search results do not include files - even when located directly in the home directory.
• Console logs didn't show anything very obvious but adding a few relevant lines here to be able to rule out a few things
  • No obvious errors or warnings
  • TCC seems to be happy and full disk access is indeed being granted (explains why resetting it doesn't help I guess)

access	info	16:20:41.106914+0100	tccd	Handling access request to kTCCServiceSystemPolicyAllFiles, from Sub:{com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred}Resp:{<TCCDProcess: identifier=com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred, pid=4738, auid=501, euid=501, binary_path=/Applications/Alfred 4.app/Contents/MacOS/Alfred>}, ReqResult(Auth Right: Allowed (System Set), DB Action:None)
access	default	16:20:41.106946+0100	tccd	AUTHREQ_RESULT: msgID=331.213, authValue=2, authReason=4, authVersion=1, error=(null),
access	info	16:20:41.107225+0100	tccd	REPLY_MSG: msg={
	auth_value=2 (0x2)
	result=true
	auth_version=1 (0x1)
	auth_reason=4 (0x4)
}

Same issue here on two devices that were migrated using Migration Assistant (from macOS 12.0.1 to macOS 12.0.1 (Apple Silicon)).

Spotlight as well as other apps can see the files just fine 😞

I didn't try to create a new user profile given that's not a solution I would be willing to accept.
Removing all permission via Preferences as well as

tccutil reset All com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred

did not make a difference.

Any ideas on what could be worth resetting are very welcome. Broken file search is a massive productivity killer for me.

Alfred 2.8.1 disabled App Transport Security entirely.

This is a bad idea and shouldn't be done this way. Alfred should use ATS for connections to it's own servers at least.

Apple provides a documentation on how to implement this here.

Alfred is not the only app that opted out entirely. A lot of developers choose this option at the moment - but they really shoudn't...

More details on this topic:

• https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2015/09/Nobody-is-using-App-Transport-Security--what-s-next-.html
• http://ste.vn/2015/06/10/configuring-app-transport-security-ios-9-osx-10-11/