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Hi Andrew, Thanks for your help. I came to the same conclusion that something must be busted/corrupt. I ended up blowing away everything Alfred including ~/library/application support/alfred 2 and all other files associated with Alfred using Hazels app sweep. I then reindexed spotlight using the apple instructions here http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409. I reinstalled Alfred afresh from the latest release. Straight away searched for preferences. It was there. I let the spotlight re-index finish and my apps were back. I did use the Alfred 'Clear Application Cache', 'Rebuild OS X Metadata' options before doing all this to no avail.

Output from Alfred Metadata Analyser v1.0 for Alfred Preferences /Applications/Alfred 2.app/Contents/Preferences/Alfred Preferences.app Internal File Metadata ====================== Display Name: Alfred Preferences Alt Names: File Type: com.apple.application-bundle Comments: Keywords: Last Used: 2014-03-12 15:28:36 +0000 Raw mdls File Metadata ====================== kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2014-03-12 15:28:36 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2014-03-12 15:28:36 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = 0 kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0 kMDItemFSIsStationery = 0 kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "Alfred Preferences.app" kMDItemFSNodeCount = 1 kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 1 kMDItemFSTypeCode = ""

Hi Dave, I've been using alfred since pre 1.0 (I can't remember exactly but look at when I bought the power pack for v1) and while everything else is evolving, I'm increasingly being frustrated by bugs with the results of the basic search (which is the core product). I have read all the other threads and posting on these forums is most certainly my last resort (I have op posted on maybe 4 forums my entire life). I know you can open the preferences panel in many other ways including cmd+, but that does not solve the core issue which is the incorrect indexing. As I detailed in my original post I have tried several ways to ameliorate this problem. If I search for "Alfred" with alfred it does not find itself or its preferences. When I search spotlight for alfred it shows alfred straight away. There is a litany of other users reporting exactly the same issues as I am finding (even since 2.0.3) and granted these might be bugs with the internal working of the spotlight index but it seems to me there must be a logical approach similar to alfred v1 where it would create its own index of some folders (i.e applications) or have overrides for spotlight. I've converted 3 others in my office to using Alfred, 1 of the 3 has the same problems (although other applications are missing such as chrome). The other 2 I have told not to update to 2.2. Also the information here is out of date.

Since updating to Alfred 2.2 as reported by other users search results have gone missing. Admin have replied with "Apple sometimes remove things from their index" but this doesn't seem to be consistent with the timing. I can no longer access most system pref panes, alfred preferences, ios simulator and others from alfreds search results. I have cleared and reindex (Clear Application Cache and Rebuild OSX Metadate)

I also can't find Alfred Preferences with Alfred since the update. If you don't have the cog enable and don't know the command + , shortcut there are few other ways i can think of.

Yeah I started experiencing this since updating to 2.2. While I agree that spotlight doesn't find it either, there was no problem before 2.2. Do additions to the Alfred search scope simply just add to the scope of the spotlight index? I tried clearing my index and rerunning it through the reindexdel.sh. This had no effect. That workflow is a great work around though. Thanks for that.