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Have both Alfred 4 and Alfred 5 on my machine. Now want to move to 5 exclusively. In the process of trying to get rid of 4, my computer is telling me that I can't, because Alfred is still running. "No problem," I think, I know how to deal with this, and try: Going into Activity Monitor and quit Alfred from there...it relaunches itself within seconds. Quitting Alfred from within its own preferences...it relaunches itself within seconds. Go into the preferences within both 4 and 5, make sure that both have "Launch Alfred at Login" unchecked, just in case, then quit...it relaunches itself within seconds. I've been using Alfred for years, and it occurred to me that I can't recall ever noticing this "auto-launch"—outside of the "at login" preference, to be clear—before...mostly because I normally always want it running. So, is it intentional for Alfred to bring itself back after expressly telling it to quit? Regardless of the answer to #1...how can I quit Alfred and make it STAY quit? (I want to know for future reference, too, not just for the specific scenario that made me encounter this) Thanks in advance for any help!

Thanks, this is helpful! I'll look into using /Users/Shared, I hadn't considered this before. Now you've got me wondering if I can just put the entire dropbox folder in /Shared, so my two local accounts can share everything in DB—that might solve some other annoyances I have that go way beyond the scope of Alfred preferences. I have Hazel, but haven't dug too deeply into custom rules. What do you have Hazel do once it finds the conflicts? Is there any way you can—if you are willing to, of course, no hard feelings if not—share your rule with me? You're totally right...it is suboptimal. I had a small hope that someone may have found a more elegant way to handle this and would see this post and share their method(s), but I understand I'm an edge case. I'll look into the LAN sync, hadn't previously considered that, either. Thanks for the idea! Also, the poster above made me curious about if there's a way to have Dropbox as a whole live in /Users/Shared...which might seemingly eliminate the potential pitfalls of depending on the remote server for local sync.

For uninteresting reasons, I use two local user accounts on my Mac that I am the exclusive user of (if it helps, one is for work, the other personal). Whenever I'm on the "work" user account, the "personal" account remains logged in, so I can fast user switch to it. What I want to be able to do is: Have the same dropbox account on both Use selective sync (so my entire dropbox folder isn't synced twice to both accounts) On both local user accounts, sync Alfred preferences/workflows Is there a chance this could go horrifically wrong, since both local user accounts are often running at the same time? My assumption so far: since I'm only using one user account at a time, my Alfred Preferences can't realistically be changed in both places at once, avoiding a potential sync conflict on the Dropbox end. Since the Alfred preference file/folder is (relatively) small—in practice, my guess is even if I've changed an Alfred preference and tried to log in/switch to the other account as fast as possible, by the time I get to the other account, the change will have—in all likelihood—already synced. The only other potential failure point I can think of is if my computer was a laptop (it isn't now, but I'm considering one), I didn't have an internet connection, and I changed my Alfred preferences in both user accounts before Dropbox had a chance to sync either. In practice, I can't see a feasible scenario where I would change Alfred preferences on one or the other account in such short succession w/o an internet connection for Dropbox...but I'm erring on the side of caution by trying to think through the possibilities. Is there anything I'm missing other than the above that could potentially lead to sync problems? Has anyone else successfully kept their Dropbox Alfred Preferences synced on the same machine between two user accounts? I tried to search the forum before posting, but couldn't find anything. Thanks in advance!

That (Automator) totally worked, Kerry, thanks for the suggestion!

What I'd really like is a "Quit All Applications Except/But" Command I'm an OmniFocus user, and I'd like to keep that application running while everything else is quit. Anyone have a handy way to do this? I suspect a workflow/hotkey is my answer, but I'm not very adept at creating those (all my workflows are imports from others), so I'd like a little guidance. Thanks!

Thanks for replying. Ok, further testing verified what you're saying. Selecting an artist does nothing (well, except stopping current playback), but songs and albums are fine. Any chance that can be fixed, or does Applscript/Rdio's architecture not allow for that?

Downloaded from the "workflows to get you started" post. Search results get returned to Alfred, but hitting enter/return does not actually search anything, get reflected in the app at all. In addition, when hitting enter on on a search result, whatever is currently playing will stop. Is anyone else having these problems?