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Resetting to Applications & Home gets me back where I started—no files come up. I'm on Monterey (12.3.1).
I would be fine with manually excluding folders, but adding alfred:ignore seems to have no impact even after clearing cache, and if I try to exclude ~/Library in spotlight settings, I see a warning that it could break things...
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Thanks for the help Vero!
"Reset to Full Disk" works, but now my search results are a bit polluted. Is there no way to get the search scope working correctly? I didn't change the macOS version.
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Powerpack: [removed for privacy by admin]
After a factory reset and time machine restore, Alfred cannot find most files on my system, (potentially not any?). Interestingly, it can find files on an external drive. Note that this is strictly for file search (as in the "open" command). Application search and web bookmarks work fine.
I've run through all the steps here: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/indexing/#filesearch, including deleting .Spotlight-V100 and rebuilding the index.
Diagnostics don't reveal any problems.
Starting Diagnostics... File: 'woomba.txt' Path: '/Users/fred/Documents' ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file cache database... ✅ File cache integrity is ok ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if file is readable... ✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file. ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS... ✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive ----------------------------------------------------------- Check direct file metadata... ✅ Direct metadata available Display Name: woomba.txt Other Names: Content Type: public.plain-text Last Used: ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ✅ Metadata contains required items _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "woomba.txt" com_apple_metadata_modtime = 703894192.4402229 kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2023-04-22 22:09:52 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2023-04-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2023-04-22 22:09:52 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate_Ranking = 2023-04-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentType = "public.plain-text" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "public.plain-text", "public.text", "public.data", "public.item", "public.content" ) kMDItemDateAdded = 2023-04-22 22:13:20 +0000 kMDItemDateAdded_Ranking = 2023-04-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemDisplayName = "woomba.txt" kMDItemDocumentIdentifier = 0 kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2023-04-22 22:09:52 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2023-04-22 22:09:52 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null) kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0 kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null) kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "woomba.txt" kMDItemFSNodeCount = (null) kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 0 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2023-04-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemKind = "Plain Text Document" kMDItemLogicalSize = 0 kMDItemPhysicalSize = 0 ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file is in search scope... ✅ File exists within Alfred's default search scope ----------------------------------------------------------- ✅ Troubleshooting passed
Starting Diagnostics... File: 'callaway-wire.pdf' Path: '/Users/fred/Downloads' ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file cache database... ✅ File cache integrity is ok ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if file is readable... ✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file. ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS... ✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive ----------------------------------------------------------- Check direct file metadata... ✅ Direct metadata available Display Name: callaway-wire Other Names: callaway-wire.pdf Content Type: com.adobe.pdf Last Used: 2023-04-22 20:53:30 +0000 ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ✅ Metadata contains required items _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "callaway-wire.pdf" kMDItemAlternateNames = ( "callaway-wire.pdf" ) kMDItemAuthors = ( Laura ) kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2023-04-22 19:03:57 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2023-04-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2023-04-22 20:55:50 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate_Ranking = 2023-04-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentType = "com.adobe.pdf" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "com.adobe.pdf", "public.data", "public.item", "public.composite-content", "public.content" ) kMDItemCreator = "Acrobat PDFMaker 19 for Excel" kMDItemDateAdded = 2023-04-22 19:03:57 +0000 kMDItemDateAdded_Ranking = 2023-04-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemDisplayName = "callaway-wire" kMDItemDocumentIdentifier = 1480 kMDItemEncodingApplications = ( "macOS Version 12.3.1 (Build 21E258) Quartz PDFContext" ) kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2023-04-22 20:55:50 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2023-04-22 19:03:57 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 16 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null) kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 1 kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null) kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "callaway-wire.pdf" kMDItemFSNodeCount = (null) kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 307133 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2023-04-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemKind = "PDF document" kMDItemLastUsedDate = 2023-04-22 20:53:30 +0000 kMDItemLastUsedDate_Ranking = 2023-04-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemLogicalSize = 307133 kMDItemNumberOfPages = 1 kMDItemPageHeight = 792.0004 kMDItemPageWidth = 612.0001831054688 kMDItemPhysicalSize = 307200 kMDItemSecurityMethod = "None" kMDItemUseCount = 17 kMDItemUsedDates = ( "2023-04-22 04:00:00 +0000" ) kMDItemVersion = "1.4" kMDItemWhereFroms = ( "https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WireTransferInfoRequest.pdf", "https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WireTransferInfoRequest.pdf" ) ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file is in search scope... ✅ File exists within Alfred's default search scope ----------------------------------------------------------- ✅ Troubleshooting passed
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It's working for me on Alfred 4.
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> You can already insert tabs in snippets but a form will not use them to change field
I think there is confusion here between:
1. TAB to cycle between fields in an external form (on a webpage)
2. TAB to cycle between fields of a snippet that has placeholders
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I vote hiding rather than transparency. I most often drag from Alfred to attach to an email, and Alfred always tends to be right on top of that email.
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I agree this would be a nice feature. In the mean time, you can use cmd-up to go up a directory.
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If I understand correctly, you are talking about a snippet that pops up a form where you provide values for fields (e.g. the addressee of an email). You can get that feature with aText, which is $5.
It would be awesome to have this for Alfred though!
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I often find myself using the drag and drop feature of alfred, whereby I can drag an item from the list just like you can drag an file from the desktop. For example, this is how I attach email documents.
This is pretty nice, but it would be really nice if I could do this with they keyboard. Is there a workflow for that? If not, does this seem like a feasible thing to do?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
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Bump.
I could probably implement a workflow to do this provided that:
1. I can access the query history (currently unclear where this is stored)
2. The number of stored items (currently 20) can be customized
I think this would be a really useful feature
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You should be up and running with your new sync folder. Let me know how you get on
Thanks! Not sure why I didn't think to do that in the first place. I stopped as soon as I got things back to my original settings, and checked to make sure I could change setting. I can't confirm that the bug with dropbox interaction would have been fixed; perhaps it was, as you suggested, simply a permissions problem.
Cheers!
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On a whim, I decided to start syncing my preferences so I have them backed up consistently.
What an unfortunate decision that was..
As soon as I restarted alfred, I found that all my preferences were reset: theme, hotkey, etc... Everything except for my workflows. This was annoying, but it wasn't a huge deal to put everything back. Then I restarted Alfred, and I was back to the default again.
This makes Alfred essentially unusable for me, so I hope someone can help me soon—I feel naked using my own machine!
Details:
- Syncing to Dropbox/Miscellaneous/
- .plists in user/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/ are not updated ,nor do they affect behavior
- I can change prefs in the gui, resulting in appropriate behavior, and overwriting any .plists in the synced .plists
- These .plists are ignored when Alfred restarts
- I was able to get sticky preferences by deleting the whole Library folder, and copying in my .alfredpreferences, but although the Worklow data is present, they do not show up in the gui, nor are they usable
All I want is for everything to be like it was this morning...
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Awesome workflow! One request: I want the hotkey to always take me to sublime, so I have stopped using ew for any other text editor. It would be nice, however, if I could just set the hotkey to open a specific editor (rather than the last used one) and then I would be able to use the workflow with other text editors as well.
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Great workflow!
One idea I had: how difficult would it be to integrate with an app like marked so that you could write markdown in your editor and have it paste back as formatted rich text? That would be a killer feature. -
Would it be possible to set it up to open the new file automatically? (I don't know Ruby).
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Well if these are folders that are in your home folder, then the scope should already be available. Therefore, just using the 'in' keyword in Alfred should allow you to search within your documents for matching text. For example: 'in alfred' would search your documents for files that contain the word 'alfred'. If you want to search only a specific folder, then you could set up a search filter (using a workflow) to search ONLY those documents or ONLY a specific folder. That would allow you to set a keyword to search only that folder instead of all.
Which of these methods sounds similar to what you are wanting to achieve?
I haven't tested this, but maybe KMDItemTextContent will search the file's contents. Set up a file filter, hook it up to an 'Open File' action. Use KMDItemTextContent in the filter's settings. See here:
Don't know how to preview the match, though
I'm having difficulty using this technique to search for phrases, rather than words. When I check "split," I get too many results, and when I uncheck it, it doesn't turn up files that I know include the phrase. Any idea what's going on here?
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I was doing 1, but…unnecessary keystrokes, you know how it is.
I actually just changed the keywords ref→cref and gsref→ref, since I use the scholar search more often any way.
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Wow. This is fucking incredible. Words cannot express how thankful I am to you for making this workflow.
There's just one thing though… is there any way I can set the import reference file action to use scholar (gsref) rather than crossref? This might have to do with my field of study (computational linguistics), but scholar is much faster and more reliable for me.
Thanks again!
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I'm going to echo gsmth00 and ask about custom categories. I would like to see PDFs as its own category (I know this is in documents, but I'd rather search PDFs and other types of documents separately). Is this a relatively easy thing to modify?
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Download isn't working! Which is a bummer because this theme looks awesome
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I had the same problem as Erist. I was able to solve it by changing default to notification center, then nuking, then switching just timer to growl (i.e. not default). It works fine after I switched my default to growl as well.
One question: is it possible to get the notification to stay on screen until I click it away? It would be nice to not worry about missing my timer if I step away from my computer for a moment. Thanks!
It seems to be impossible to turn off syncing in the GUI (a design flaw). Can I do this manually?
Is it possible to trigger a specific file action in a workflow?
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Specifically, I want to apply the "copy file to clipboard" action, whose (very desirable) behavior I have not been able to reproduce with any other tools. Currently I can route my output to "Action in Alfred" but then I have to manually select the desired action.