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Happy to report that following the latest update to Ventura 13.4, which coincided with my spelunking around in the hot-mess that is the new System Settings, I managed to re-enable Alfred permissions, and all is now working again. I know this will require more work on your part -- but a possible suggestion to consider (if there isn't already one??), is to pop up a blog-post/how-to article with screenshots of where all the possible Alfred permissions toggle buttons might be in the new System Settings. Given that the latter is not very user friendly in the first place, it now takes a fair amount of patience/persistence in finding all the places those toggles might be found in. Fairly certain the root of my issues was one that was unchecked (or at least, had become unchecked) -- but even though I found it literally a few minutes back, I am already fairly certain I would need to hunt for it again, since it was not at all where I would have expected to find it.

Hello @Vero — any suggestions? The problem persists. I ran the Terminal command (and it confirmed successful). Upon restarting Alfred, I was however NOT asked to re-enable permissions. Toggled the switch in System Settings manually again, and inside the Alfred prefs. Regardless, no joy. Running Alfred 5.1 [2134], macOS Ventura 13.3

Just to close this – as per suggestion of @giovanni – deleted everything (including /caches) related to the ISYN workflow, and reinstalled. All working again.

Ah – thanks, this at least confirms what happened. I used Box to sync my Alfred prefs – and Box had to be "reset" yesterday, given some unknown issue. That must have caused the issue. I will see what I can manage, in terms of sorting this out.

I have a similar "permission denied" error that cropped up today, also on one of @Deanishe 's workflows [see here ]. @bongobong Did you get your's resolved?

Anyone else having any issues with this workflox? Box.app suddenly threw up an error, which I fixed via Terminal – this after I had done a reboot. And then, this workflow suddenly stopped working. Feels to me as if something was done by my updating to 13.3 Ventura last(?) week, that this morning's reboot triggered. Debugging has the following error: Code 126: /Users/b****g/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/380E648B-86A3-4C72-BC5D-4092F0FB1A03: line 2: ./isyn: Permission denied @giovanni, any ideas on how to "give permission" again? Flicking "Full access" off and on under Settings/Privacy & Security doesn't work.

THANK YOU! All fixed and running!

Anyone else have this workflow broken after updating to Ventura? Increasingly convinced I haven't ticked a "permissions setting" somewhere – but struggling to work all of that out on the new OS. So, figured I would check here first. Debugger shows the following: [16:16:45.897] Logging Started... [16:16:50.765] Student Number Lookup (New)[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)' [16:16:50.856] Student Number Lookup (New)[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished [16:16:50.862] ERROR: Student Number Lookup (New)[Script Filter] Code 1: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun

Thank you SO much for doing this! I had given up, and rolled my own manual solution using the built-in list filter – but the original was always so much better. This is now working as it was, and I couldn't be happier. Thanks again!

Many thanks – I should have thought to dig around a bit in there. Will give the transfer a go, and see what comes of it. EDIT: Hmmm. Seems to only contain PList preference files, that presumably link back to other folders for the actual content of the prior clipboards. Will be a little bit cautionary in my transfer approach, to ensure I don't cause any undoable results...

Hello all, I rely on Alfred's clipboard history each and every day as an integral part of my workflow(s), and it really is jarring not having it at hand, so to speak! Just transitioned to a new MBP – and whilst I have managed to get everything set up and moved over, with all workflows and settings etc. intact – I am (obviously) missing my clipboard history, and built-up over the rolling 3-months prior, on my old MBP. Is there a way to copy the clipboard history over to the new machine, to have that "history" available to me now again?

Hi Vero – appreciate the assistance. The post linked to above, so kindly put together, also links back to an Alfred help post, on reinstalling Python 2 – as found here. Unfortunately, following those instructions does not work, when trying the install through Terminal. It fires back (on my side, at least), the following error: python-build: use zlib from xcode sdk BUILD FAILED (OS X 12.3 using python-build 20180424) Inspect or clean up the working tree at /var/folders/zn/jy0jnfks28qfrfgphswgrcn40000gn/T/python-build.20220405173019.34079 Results logged to /var/folders/zn/jy0jnfks28qfrfgphswgrcn40000gn/T/python-build.20220405173019.34079.log Last 10 log lines: checking MACHDEP... darwin checking EXTRAPLATDIR... $(PLATMACDIRS) checking for --without-gcc... no checking for --with-icc... no checking for gcc... clang checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/var/folders/zn/jy0jnfks28qfrfgphswgrcn40000gn/T/python-build.20220405173019.34079/Python-2.7.18': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. ln: /usr/local/bin/python: File exists So, kind of stuck back at square one, since presumably without a version of Python 2 that the various workflows depend on, nothing in the initial post, is going to work as it should. Oh, and apologies for dropping this all in here – but unfortunately did not seem to have a way of responding in the Alfred help blog-post.

Still rocking an Intel – but Silicon on the horizon in the next few weeks.

Ah – thank you for clarifying difference between Python 2 and 3! And huge thanks for offering assistance – sadly, still running into issues. The support doc Homebrew installation of Python 2 failed, with the following message: BUILD FAILED (OS X 12.3 using python-build 20180424) Inspect or clean up the working tree at /var/folders/zn/jy0jnfks28qfrfgphswgrcn40000gn/T/python-build.20220317095201.71946 Results logged to /var/folders/zn/jy0jnfks28qfrfgphswgrcn40000gn/T/python-build.20220317095201.71946.log So, seemingly back to square 1. Will try and get clarity on what might be going wrong with the above.

It was working like a charm on Alfred 4 over the past several months – until today. Finally updated to macOS Monterey last night, and that seems to have broken it. Log throws out the following: Code 126: /Users/goldfish/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/100A1AA1-3884-4F6B-92C9-6B59DE8CD8E9: ./isyn: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory REALLY hope I can get this working again – this workflow is so powerful, and saves me so much time... [EDIT]: Ok. So, clearly I've been living under a rock. Did not realise that Python 2(.7?) was no longer part of macOS Monterey – and seemingly needs to replaced with Python 3 as the "new" default. And, assuming I understand things correctly, the above error log is simply saying that the /isyn workflow was trying to find usr/bin/python at its usual location – but now nothing is there, hence the error. So I presumably have to "simply" install Python 3 in the /usr/bin/python directory, and all should go back to working as before? Which means –– I need to spend time working through this thread! Yay me!

Ok – many thanks – I think I will be able to make that change, but could you clarify where I would find the file in question? Running a search for "client_rules.json" brings up hits in my backups of "old" workflows, but nothing seemingly related to the current workflow? Could you kindly explain where I would begin to look? EDIT: Apologies, was being silly. Didn't realise I could right click on the workflow, to show in Finder. Will tinker with it now, and see if I get it working. EDIT: Solved. Thanks a bunch!

That works! 😀 So, that needs to be changed in the underlying script, correct?

Silly me – it gives back the following: `The file /Users/goldfish/mailto:John Cleese <sillywalks@theministry.net> does not exist.` Just updating MS Outlook currently, figured I would check if that could make a difference. That said, Mail.app also didn't work, so not sure if something else to blame. Edit: MS Outlook now on V 16.51.21071101, and no change.

Here is the screengrab – seemingly does nothing?

Many thanks. I do still have Outlook, and am running it as my default application. Just ran the "Force Reload", which worked as expected. Changed to Mail.app (confirmed via notification) – ran the workflow, and same issue. Changed back to Outlook, and no difference.

Many thanks – and apologies, figured I would first check to see if this was only a problem on my side, or being seen by others! What would be best? Should I copy in the debugging(?) report? Included below: [14:21:59.876] MailTo[Hotkey] Processing complete [14:21:59.878] MailTo[Hotkey] Passing output '' to Script Filter [14:22:00.477] MailTo[Script Filter] Queuing argument '' [14:22:00.657] MailTo[Script Filter] Script with argv '' finished [14:22:00.660] STDERR: MailTo[Script Filter] . 14:22:00 workflow.py:2055 DEBUG ---------- MailTo (2.3.1) ---------- 14:22:00 workflow.py:1462 DEBUG reading settings from /Users/goldfish/Library/Application Support/Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/settings.json 14:22:00 workflow.py:2339 DEBUG update check not due 14:22:00 mailto.py:136 DEBUG args : Namespace(action=u'search', query=u'') 14:22:00 workflow.py:1689 DEBUG loading cached data: /Users/goldfish/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/all_apps.cpickle 14:22:00 workflow.py:1689 DEBUG loading cached data: /Users/goldfish/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/system_default_app.cpickle 14:22:00 mailto.py:154 DEBUG Searching contacts 14:22:00 workflow.py:1689 DEBUG loading cached data: /Users/goldfish/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/__workflow_update_status.cpickle 14:22:00 workflow.py:2269 DEBUG update_data: {u'available': False} 14:22:00 workflow.py:1689 DEBUG loading cached data: /Users/goldfish/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/contacts.cpickle 14:22:00 workflow.py:2248 DEBUG set last run version: 2.3.1 14:22:00 workflow.py:2097 DEBUG ---------- finished in 0.042s ---------- [14:22:00.662] MailTo[Script Filter] {"items": [{"arg": "compose", "valid": true, "subtitle": "\u21a9 to compose a new email or start typing to add recipients", "icon": {"path": "icons/compose.icns"}, "title": "Compose a new email"}]} [14:22:03.422] MailTo[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'john' [14:22:03.589] MailTo[Script Filter] Script with argv 'john' finished [14:22:03.593] STDERR: MailTo[Script Filter] . 14:22:03 workflow.py:2055 DEBUG ---------- MailTo (2.3.1) ---------- 14:22:03 workflow.py:1462 DEBUG reading settings from /Users/goldfish/Library/Application Support/Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/settings.json 14:22:03 workflow.py:2339 DEBUG update check not due 14:22:03 mailto.py:136 DEBUG args : Namespace(action=u'search', query=u'john') 14:22:03 workflow.py:1689 DEBUG loading cached data: /Users/goldfish/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/all_apps.cpickle 14:22:03 workflow.py:1689 DEBUG loading cached data: /Users/goldfish/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/system_default_app.cpickle 14:22:03 mailto.py:154 DEBUG Searching contacts 14:22:03 workflow.py:1689 DEBUG loading cached data: /Users/goldfish/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/__workflow_update_status.cpickle 14:22:03 workflow.py:2269 DEBUG update_data: {u'available': False} 14:22:03 workflow.py:1689 DEBUG loading cached data: /Users/goldfish/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/contacts.cpickle 14:22:03 mailto.py:335 DEBUG existing : [] emails : [] invalid_emails : [] query : u'john' 14:22:03 workflow.py:1462 DEBUG reading settings from /Users/goldfish/Library/Application Support/Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/settings.json 14:22:03 mailto.py:211 DEBUG 5 matches for "john" 14:22:03 workflow.py:2248 DEBUG set last run version: 2.3.1 14:22:03 workflow.py:2097 DEBUG ---------- finished in 0.050s ---------- [14:22:03.596] MailTo[Script Filter] {"items": [{"subtitle": "johnr@sun.ac.za // \u21e5 to add, \u21a9 to add & compose", "uid": "johnr@sun.ac.za", "title": "", "autocomplete": "johnr@sun.ac.za, ", "valid": true, "arg": "compose johnr@sun.ac.za", "icon": {"path": "icons/person.icns"}}, {"subtitle": "888jjm@gmail.com // \u21e5 to add, \u21a9 to add & compose", "uid": "888jjm@gmail.com", "title": "John Marshall", "autocomplete": "888jjm@gmail.com, ", "valid": true, "arg": "compose 888jjm@gmail.com", "icon": {"path": "icons/person.icns"}}, {"subtitle": "ebrezia@sun.ac.za // \u21e5 to add, \u21a9 to add & compose", "uid": "ebrezia@sun.ac.za", "title": "Johnson, Me", "autocomplete": "ebrezia@sun.ac.za, ", "valid": true, "arg": "compose ebrezia@sun.ac.za", "icon": {"path": "icons/person.icns"}}, {"subtitle": "sillywalks@theministry.net // \u21e5 to add, \u21a9 to add & compose", "uid": "sillywalks@theministry.net", "title": "John Cleese", "autocomplete": "sillywalks@theministry.net, ", "valid": true, "arg": "compose sillywalks@theministry.net", "icon": {"path": "icons/person.icns"}}, {"subtitle": "ebrezia@sun.ac.za // \u21e5 to add, \u21a9 to add & compose", "uid": "ebrezia@sun.ac.za", "title": "Ebrezia Johnson", "autocomplete": "ebrezia@sun.ac.za, ", "valid": true, "arg": "compose ebrezia@sun.ac.za", "icon": {"path": "icons/person.icns"}}]} [14:22:05.993] MailTo[Script Filter] Processing complete [14:22:06.001] MailTo[Script Filter] Passing output 'compose sillywalks@theministry.net' to Run Script [14:22:06.181] ERROR: MailTo[Run Script] . 14:22:06 workflow.py:2055 DEBUG ---------- MailTo (2.3.1) ---------- 14:22:06 workflow.py:1462 DEBUG reading settings from /Users/goldfish/Library/Application Support/Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/settings.json 14:22:06 workflow.py:2339 DEBUG update check not due 14:22:06 mailto.py:136 DEBUG args : Namespace(action=u'compose', query=u'sillywalks@theministry.net') 14:22:06 mailto.py:372 DEBUG Composing email ... 14:22:06 mailto.py:377 DEBUG Composing email to u'sillywalks@theministry.net' 14:22:06 workflow.py:1689 DEBUG loading cached data: /Users/goldfish/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/all_apps.cpickle 14:22:06 workflow.py:1689 DEBUG loading cached data: /Users/goldfish/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/system_default_app.cpickle 14:22:06 workflow.py:1689 DEBUG loading cached data: /Users/goldfish/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/contacts.cpickle 14:22:06 client.py:93 DEBUG Loading client formatting rules from /Users/goldfish/Box Sync/Alfred Preferences Sync/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.875BA254-D2CE-410E-92DB-1BF1D0880124/client_rules.json ... 14:22:06 client.py:93 DEBUG Loading client formatting rules from /Users/goldfish/Library/Application Support/Alfred/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred-mailto/client_rules.json ... 14:22:06 client.py:108 DEBUG Loaded rules {u'inline_to': True, u'no_commas': False, u'spaces': False, u'mime': False, u'names': True} for client u'com.microsoft.Outlook' 14:22:06 client.py:116 DEBUG Building URL for app 'com.microsoft.Outlook' 14:22:06 client.py:151 DEBUG [default] (u'John Cleese', u'sillywalks@theministry.net') --> u'John Cleese <sillywalks@theministry.net>' 14:22:06 mailto.py:381 DEBUG URL : 'mailto:John Cleese <sillywalks@theministry.net>' 14:22:06 mailto.py:387 DEBUG default_app : {u'path': u'/Applications/Microsoft Outlook.app', u'name': u'Microsoft Outlook', u'bundleid': u'com.microsoft.Outlook'} 14:22:06 common.py:75 DEBUG Running command : [u'open', u'-b', u'com.microsoft.Outlook', 'mailto:John Cleese <sillywalks@theministry.net>'] The file /Users/goldfish/Box Sync/Alfred Preferences Sync/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.875BA254-D2CE-410E-92DB-1BF1D0880124/mailto:John Cleese <sillywalks@theministry.net> does not exist. 14:22:06 workflow.py:2074 ERROR Command '[u'open', u'-b', u'com.microsoft.Outlook', 'mailto:John Cleese <sillywalks@theministry.net>']' returned non-zero exit status 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/goldfish/Box Sync/Alfred Preferences Sync/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.875BA254-D2CE-410E-92DB-1BF1D0880124/workflow/workflow.py", line 2067, in run func(self) File "mailto.py", line 140, in run return getattr(self, method_name)() File "mailto.py", line 393, in do_compose command_output(cmd) File "/Users/goldfish/Box Sync/Alfred Preferences Sync/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.875BA254-D2CE-410E-92DB-1BF1D0880124/common.py", line 76, in command_output return wf.decode(subprocess.check_output(cmd)).strip() File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 223, in check_output raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output) CalledProcessError: Command '[u'open', u'-b', u'com.microsoft.Outlook', 'mailto:John Cleese <sillywalks@theministry.net>']' returned non-zero exit status 1 14:22:06 workflow.py:2097 DEBUG ---------- finished in 0.070s ---------- [14:22:06.193] MailTo[Run Script] Processing complete [14:22:06.194] MailTo[Run Script] Passing output '{"items": [{"valid": false, "subtitle": "Command '[u'open', u'-b', u'com.microsoft.Outlook', 'mailto:John Cleese <sillywalks@theministry.net>']' returned non-zero exit status 1", "icon": {"path": "/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/AlertStopIcon.icns"}, "title": "Error in workflow 'MailTo'"}]}' to Post Notification

Anyone else having difficulty with this workflow, under Big Sur? Sadly, not working anymore.

I think you have just saved me weeks, heck, months of saved time, given how many times a day I no longer need to perform time-consuming searches for something I have now stored inside a dedicated Excel spreadsheet, that is a mere few keystrokes away... So, THANK YOU! 👍

Oh WOW. Thanks for this – will play around with both your options – but Dean's looks really good/powerful! [EDIT] >> Installed and using. Thank you for pointing me to the ISYN workflow – just what I was looking for! Plenty of time going to be saved, daily, for me!

Dear Vero – thanks so much for the quick reply! I would create it from existing data – so can have it in whichever format/style – could certainly do a .csv file. It would be static for pretty much the entire year. Each February, I would add new names (and optionally, remove old details). The datasheet would probably consist of about 2k names (maybe a bit less/more), and a related "client number" (so only two columns).