karenjs

Thank you, I understand the nature of the questions. Some answers. 1. I had to google this, but believe you're asking if Dropbox (or the Alfred folder on it) is an alias vs really on my HD. It's really on my HD. Dropbox files are copied to my HD (and synced regularly). 2. It's probably happening each restart (I just don't restart often at all). 3. Only here on the laptop (used about 5x more than other computer) - no idea why. But breakthrough: I was looking through my chat history here and I had something similar last year (which I had utterly forgotten about!!) which I went back & forth with Support on, which worked back then and I performed it now and it also worked! Pasting it in here to help any poor souls who have the same. The theory is that it was a permissions issue: [The following is from Alfred Support] Thanks for your email and apologies for the slow reply. I wanted to consult my colleague as this is an unusual issue, which points to possible permissions issues on your Mac. Please quit Alfred and follow the steps below and let me know how you get on: 1. Navigate to your Dropbox folder and back up your Alfred.alfredpreferences somewhere safe first to ensure you don't lose your preferences during this process. 2. Copy the Alfred.alfredpreferences to the default preferences location, which is: ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred/ You will be overwriting the Alfred.alfredpreferences in that location, which is fine. 3. Delete the prefs.json file from the folder above 4. Relaunch Alfred. You will now be using the default location for your preferences rather than your Dropbox location. Try setting your global hotkey, restarting, etc and seeing what behaviour you're getting. Once you're satisfied that your preferences are being saved correctly, you can set a new Dropbox sync location (or delete the old one before re-creating it). Again, please ensure that this folder is set to always store files locally with SmartSync disabled for it. Let me know how you get on Cheers,Vero

Ah yes, it is! Sorry, I meant to include that detail. It's set for offline access.

Sometimes after laptop restart, Alfred won't remember the hotkey (when I go into prefs my hotkey IS saved..but won't work until I toggle it to something else and back again inside prefs) AND (similarly, to me...) I am looking right at all my Workflows and yet none of those keywords work to invoke them. Sometimes, after awhile (and I cannot imagine why) they suddenly WILL start to work. I do store prefs in Dropbox (to sync with my desktop) but that folder is set to always sync -- and the prefs on the other computer work just fine. Screenshot below hopefully illustrates I'm typing the keyword and it's not showing in results and that's the same for all workflows. Alfred 5.1 1[2138] Mac 13.4.1(c) - just updated to the security patch, but this happens frequently now with any restart, whether or not I've updated

Thanks - SmartSync isn't enabled and the other settings (custom workflows) sync fine with my second computer - I originate custom workflows on both computers and they sync fine to the other. It's just the hotkey on this one computer that won't persist through restarts. Any other ideas?

Hello - I've been having the same problem for a couple months now, since updating to the latest release of 4. When I restart, the Alfred hotkey resets to default (there is no other key-combo occupying the one I want to use). I reset it and it persists until another restart. I have pasted in the terminal comments from here (https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/preferences/) and I keep getting No Such File or Directory. I've double-checked my username, double-checked that I've quit Alfred, etc. I do sync settings (Dropbox) and share with my desktop computer which doesn't have the problem off those same settings. What else can I try? Thanks. Alfred 4.6.6 (1303) with powerpack.

Thank you! So helpful! So I trashed the prefs that I had pointed it to on Dropbox (the old prefs from way back) and it re-pointed itself to the Library and everything was back. That had me breathing easier. Then I created a new/fresh folder on Dropbox, pointed it to it, and it did its thing. Thanks for taking the time to answer, because you really got me out of a bind. It says Community Hero under your name, and I agree! 😊

I have a sweet Alfred prefs setup on my laptop that I wanted to sync to the desktop. I followed the steps here (https://www.alfredapp.com/help/advanced/sync/) and did the Set folder and restart Alfred" step. There was an older Alfred pref file in there (I only selected the folder, not the pref file). What it did was wipe out all my existing preferences and I'm now pointed to that 2019 pref file. I lost all my workflows. I know where the folder was previously although there is no pref file stored there, that I can see.... and a wide open search on everything shows no pref file anywhere other than the newly created one (with all my stuff gone) Were the steps I followed above designed to wipe prefs and restore to the old prefs? There's nothing in those steps that hinted that could've been the case. And could it be that Alfred wasn't storing prefs in a file prior to me doing the above? Is there a way to "undo" and get back to ....all the workflows that were so cool that I wanted to share them to my desktop and now are nowhere? Pointing me to help file is fine, I'm just not finding one. Thanks

Hi..I'm rebuilding everything after using the "nuclear option" on my hard-drive yesterday (great fun), and I'm running into a features that I *think* I'm missing (or else I'm just losing my mind). I have Alfred v2 and the Powerpack. I *believe* that I had it set so that a slightly different shortcut invoked Alfred, depending on whether I was using my laptop keyboard vs the bluetooth keyboard (that goes to same laptop). Control-space on the laptop and option-space on the bluetooth-keyboard. (It's a muscle memory thing - just believe me that it makes sense.) I'm not sure how I came to set that up, previously. I poked around the support docs and forum to no avail. It's fine if BOTH shortcuts do it on BOTH keyboards, maybe that was it (but still don't know how to add another Alfred-invoking hotkey). Thanks for any help! Karen