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Hey Carlos, I messaged you but if we could get a copy of this workflow that would be great. I love the premise, it just has a couple of weird quirks at the moment for me... Thanks bud!

As always nice work Florian. It would be nice to get notifications with info of musician/album/song title on track change. Cover art if possible would also be cool but probably a lot of work. Thanks for sharing! Check your messages btw... 

waffles_n I would recommend that you add the info about "wkpdf" being a requirement to the readme feature of your extension... I grabbed it with alfpt and had no idea why is was not working correctly. Thank you again for sharing but that could save a lot of people a lot of headache. Cheers on the great workflows lately!

Yep it works now. The one issue I have it that it doesn't work with text expansion like the file navigator does. Typinator lets you expand items in Alfred v1 and file navigator of v2 but for instance ",as" gives you /Users/name/Library/Application Support/" and File navigator picks it up no problem but for some reason File action does not, even if using abbreviations set in apple's system preferences...

Andrew, will this maybe come back to file actions like it works in file navigator? Not a HUGE loss, but definitely very useful for getting around and moving files quickly. Thanks again for implementing this feature so quickly after I complained! Cheers!

Just zip up the github files. If you want I will upload a copy that I zipped but it won't be from the dev directly... let me know.

No "action block" ... yet but we now do have a "readme" tab! Double click the workflow (where you would edit the bundle id, workflow name, creator, etc..) and to the right is a tab labeled readme to put in some info/uses/variables about the workflow. Nothing more than a simple area for info but it's good enough for me.

You developers will need to push harder for your "action block" idea, which is great imo, so keep at it, I am sure it will eventually make it into Alfred.

Thanks Alfred team for implementing my request.  knew you two would think of a cleaner way of doing it than a sliding notepad from the bottom of the workflow as I suggested. Cheers!  

Update # 2: So after clearing Alfred's own cache and knowledge in Advanced Prefs the cache folder ~/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-2/Workflow Data/recentdownloads.ddjfreedom is writing and apparently ordering the files in the correct order now. Alfred is now also displaying them in the correct order!  Hooray! Thanks for the info!

Now for the big request...  if I could only get the script to read one subfolder deep I'll be in business! Do you think it is possible? Really each day files are added to one folder inside of ~/Downloads.... For instance today my files are going to be placed inside of: ~/Downloads/29-01-13/ by Hazel. If the script could read files a sub-folder deep I could use it no problem with my current setup. Thanks again for the quick response and help. Cheers, look forward to hearing from you!

Is that also hidden? I just filter out all file names starting with '.'. I'll fix this.

 

 

Just realized that it will always check if there are stuff to install. Sorry about this. I'll fix it.

 

1) Do you mean display items from Downloads folder and all its sub-folders? Or display items from Downloads folder and walking down folders? If the latter, I'll have to set folder's 'valid' key to "no", and no operation can operate on it.

I do not understand what you mean by Downloads folder and it's sub-folders vs Downloads folder and walking down. Sorry for the confusion. I have My downloads folder arranged as such:

~/Downloads

     -26-01-13

     -25-01-13

     -24-01-13

     -23-01-13

.... etc... so the script really only has to go one level deep as I have hazel automatically move downloads to the the dated folder they correspond with. For instance all my downloads for today went to 29-01-13. I hope that clears it up. Beyond that I have no downloads organized further below one sub-folder in ~/Downloads.

2) I will clear the cache now and see if that helps with the results. I did just notice that some folder that were created even before I installed the extension are listed there. I will clear it and let you know the results. Thanks for making install/action feature optional too! I really appreciate this great workflow and the time your putting into it. I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. Cheers bud! IF there is anymore confusion/questions let me know and I will get back to you when I clear the cache. Thanks again!

Update: Cleared the cache and still no luck with better results. Every single file in my ~/Downloads folder is picked up but not in order. For instance I have my ~/downloads/22-01-13/ folder up near the top of the list and a bash script I downloaded earlier this morning as the first result. I deleted the contents of the cache file and I deleted it complete to allow for recreation of a new one. It simply takes all the files in the folder but they aren't being arranged properly. If I run the mdls command that is in the script  mdls -name kMDItemDateAdded -raw ... on my downloads I am getting proper info. Each one is accurate even when downloaded extremely close together... to the second. Not sure what is up. Any ideas? Thanks again for you time helping me troubleshoot this! Much appreciated bud!

A couple of things. 

- I just want to use the script to display the most recent downloaded file. I have no use for the install etc... action you have added. Which is nice but I had disabled that from the v1 script othijus shared.

1) Are there any plans to have the script be capable of going down at least one directory to deep for those of us who auto-organize downloads with apps like Hazel and Glims for Safari?

2) I am not getting accurate results. Default clean install of 10.8.2 with Xcode and command line tools etc... but I can go to macupdate.com - download 3 files in a row and they are usually mixed up a bit with older folders residing in ~/Downloads (2-5 days old) appearing before the just downloaded files.

What are your system specs? I never had these problems with otijhuis's extension for alfred v1 so I am not sure why the results I am receiving are so off. Any ideas? Ruby v1.8.7 (default 10.8 version)

Perhaps it is Ruby or something else, so please if you do not mind would you share your system specs with me so I can try to figure out what is causing this behavior?

And lastly, anyway we might see the script be able to filter down one level to view downloads organized into dated folders?

Thanks for sharing this! I really hope I can get it to work as I had posted a request for a script just like this 4 or 5 days before you posted this workflow. Cheers!

Awesome thanks, yeah it was exactly the workflow I was referring to when I created this thread but I was also hoping to use the feedback capabilities that Florian speaks of. The two in combination would be supreme. Thanks for sharing this though, very useful.

Thanks, I enjoyed the caveat that the hack might be removed and all "moans" for re-instatment will be ignored. I guess at this point a lot of our nitpicking requests sound like moans, lol.

Seriously though, if there was a most dedicated developer of the year award it would go to you and Vero, not even a close runner-up. Thank you for your unwavering dedication to Alfred and it's users. We truly appreciate all the time you put in to development and support no matter how much we "moan" for this and that!

• I may take this feature out if it causes general instability and will ignore any moans of "put it back"

I am also experiencing the same problems as CarlosNZ and Hollowm4n but my problems seem to be intermittent. Sometimes there will be no text under the AlfPT icon, other times I get a successful update notification underneath AlfPT with the workflow bundle id (if i remember correctly) listed with a message of success in front. 

A problem I am experiencing that I have not seen listed here is a very strange message in growl, screenshot attached, but notice the success response at the bottom... Probably an error on my end but just in case otherwise...

Anyhow, thank you for making this awesome workflow hub for us to enjoy and in this case "troubleshoot/complain" about ! - Seriously though, thank you for all your hard work in making this much desired feature possible. Cheers!

+1 for the ability to disable workflows.

I second that motion. Please export when you have a chance. Looks awesome.

Hey guys, I was thinking that a workflow which listed your most recently downloaded files would be super useful. I think it needs a well coded script filter to truly work properly. I tried a lot of different "File Filter" combinations but nothing accurately picks up the most recently added files to "~/Downloads/*" while listing the most recently added first, file downloaded before that second, etc…

Any coding ninjas have thoughts or interest? Even though I can't code the filter if you have any good ideas on how to implement this please share as maybe someone who does have the skills can pick up that info and run with it. Also, it would be great if the workflow was capable of searching into sub-folders, at least one level deep, as I have Hazel organizing downloads into dated folders. Thanks for reading. Cheers!

Well done, this is great, works like a charm too. At first I was having problems getting it to pick-up tabs, but after I removed coreutils from my path it started working no problem. Thanks for sharing and uploading this as well as "View Recent Folders" to AlfTP. Great workflows.

Wow, nice work tomhunt! This is extremely useful, especially since it is beneficial to every single user here. Thank you for taking the time to put this together, a much needed and sought after solution has now been implemented in a beautiful workflow. So cool, thanks again.

To all workflow creators, if you have adopted AlfPT, thank you! If you have not, please do. Cheers!

Using a git repo could be a good goal for the future, but personally I think it could be a bit of overkill in these early stages.

AlfPT (Alfred Package Tool)

I've implemented a simple system on my server. Download this workflow to test it:

http://alfredrepo.tom-hunt.co.uk/repo/th_alfpt.alfredworkflow

I am getting an error when trying to download this? Might just be me but is it up? Thanks for making this updater!

I had this problem with v1. The idea given to me by either Vero or Andrew was to just delete the keyword or maybe now hotkey… I would like to see this feature though as well. 

Sounded like an interesting idea, so I figured I'd give it a go.

 

It uses the same list as the Go -> Recent Folders menu in Finder. I haven't thoroughly tested it yet, so let me know if you have any problems (or any other feeback).

 

Download: http://cl.ly/0C3q0s3A2E0x

I agree with Jono, very nice indeed! Thanks for sharing this with us, especially those of us like me who are allergic to code.

Something similar is already in Alfred (v1) but not in the v2 beta yet. In v1 if you type Finder (or narrow it down to just the letter F) then tab and select 'Recent Documents' it shows the folders you've accessed recently.

 

Hopefully it will make it back into Alfred 2.

 

 

I remember trying that before on v1 and I didn't get any results… maybe one old folder I hadn't accessed in a long time but that's probably because of TotalFinder or some other application I have messing with Alfred. Good to know that it did work fine in v1. I think these few missing features will slowly find their way back or different solutions will be implemented. I have faith, Alfred's future is bright.

Better yet, give you a drop down result of recent folders from within Alfred that you can then easily open in Finder but view recents and then narrow to the folder you need. Sounds like a great idea but hard to implement. I wouldn't know but it sure does sound challenging…  Results in Alfred of recently navigated Finder folders would be a killer feature, but only if a certain amount of recently viewed folders are available from Alfred's results to choose to then quickly to choose from.

Does this need to be turned on in the settings somewhere? I'm not seeing the last entry retained (unless I hit up arrow) on b68.

Same place it was in v1 I believe. Go to Advanced -> On the left side under History -> second checkmark "Show latest history if within 5 minutes"

Thanks devs for getting this back in there!

I was really enjoying your EggTimer extension on v1. Hopefully you get it all ironed out, wish I could help… on my way to grab the v2 version from your site… 

Haha, you've got add and I have ocd. It's all good. I am sure Andrew will figure out a good way to implement this if it does indeed get picked up. Still keeping my fingers crossed…