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I am setting up Alfred on a new work computer, where I'm not allowed to install Dropbox. How can I import my preferences into this new computer? I tried copying Alfred.alfredpreferences to the new computer and double-clicking it as suggested in this Stack Overflow post but I get a "You cannot open an Alfred Preferences file directly" error.

On 2/26/2023 at 7:25 PM, gandalfsaxe said:

I hope you can explore some PNG conversion feature for those of us who prefer *always* PNG (and then can revert to native copy-paste function in those rare instances where a PNG is not accepted by the application). With the advent of the Apple Silicon chips in Mac, I would not be worried about the extra system load by doing image conversion of screenshots. I truly appreciate your concern for system load and performance in general, as this is surely one of the reason why Alfred is so snappy in general. That's a very good attitude! In this case I'd just vastly prefer Alfred to be converting the screenshots to PNG immediately upon saving them rather than send huge image files everywhere. I've begun to use the Alfred clipboard less for images since this discovery as it literally means the difference between an image loading in 1 second or 5 seconds in Slack in many cases etc.

There are still many users (like myself) on Intel Macs, and an app like Alfred should absolutely not waste resources.

@Noob you need to run pip3 install openai on the Terminal to install the openai Python module.

I also had to edit the script inside the workflow and change python  to python3

Thanks! I've already updated to 5.0.5 b2096 and changed my dynamic snippets to use isodate instead.

Offtopic: How to format a word (like "isodate" in the paragraph above) as code in this forum?

I just updated to 5.0.4 b2089 and it's working as expected. Thanks!

Yes, that's probably related, but I expected this to apply only to the default {date}, {time} and {datetime} placeholders with no formatting. Since I explicitly used the format the documentation suggest for "ISO 8601 date format" ({date:yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZZ}), I expected to get a ISO 8601 formatted datetime.

I'm trying to create a dynamic snippet that will display the current date/time in ISO 8601 format, but it's showing the hour in 12-hour format instead of 24-hour. Right now it's 5:50PM, so it should be 17:50. But a dynamic snippet with the `{date:yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZZ}` content, as suggested in the documentation, shows "2022-10-07T5:50:05-03:00" instead of "2022-10-07T17:50:05-03:00". I tried replacing the `HH` with `hh` but I get 05 instead of 17.

How can I get a proper ISO 8601 format?

Thanks!

Awesome, thanks for sharing! I found the result subtext font of 8px to be too tiny so I increased it to 12px, and I also increased the result icon to 34px, I think it looks perfect now 🙂

I never used Spotlight directly, only Alfred. I'm trying to use Alfred to find a file named eBook-How-to-write-great-OKRs-revised-edition.pdf, which is in ~/Documents. When I type okr in Alfred, it doesn't find anything, showing only fallback searches. So I opened Spotlight and searched for "okr", and it promply found this file.

How can I fix this? Thanks!

macOS Catalina 10.15.7

Alfred 4.6.1

3 minutes ago, deanishe said:

1Password has multiple shortcuts. Go check its preferences and make sure you don’t have ⌥⌘\ assigned there, too. On my machine, that’s the hotkey for 1Password mini.

 

Also, apps can't override each others' hotkeys. If two apps register the same hotkey, it's up to macOS what happens.

Thank you, I hadn't noticed that 1Password also used ⌥⌘\

This looks really powerful, but I had some trouble finding out how to actually use it The onboarding experience could be improved.

I went to Preferences > Features > Universal Actions like suggested in https://www.alfredapp.com/universal-actions/ , and saw this:

I tried selecting some text in a webpage and hitting → + fn + ctrl, and nothing happened.

So I saw this:

so I tried hitting Option + Cmd + \ and instead of Alfred doing something, 1Password opened (Cmd + \ is the global hotkey for 1Password). After completely quitting 1Password, I tried Option + Cmd + \ and finally Alfred's Universal Actions dialog appeared.

So in addition to suggesting a more "step by step" tutorial, shouldn't Option + Cmd + \ for Alfred override the Cmd + \ that's used by 1Password?

Thanks!

Search is broken in Packal, when I try to search I get the following error:

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Fatal error: Class name must be a valid object or a string in /www/sites/packal/includes/common.inc on line 8041

Also, the error page gives more details than it should (stacktrace and file locations), which is a security issue, you may want to look into that.

Dash 2 has been released and it improves the Dash Alfred workflow by dynamically defining keywords. This means that you can now search using "css {query}" instead of "dash css:{query}".

Is there some way to disable this behaviour? I'd like to activate the Dash workflow only when I begin my Alfred query with "dash". I got lots of docsets so the workflow is activated too often for my taste.

I'm using Alfred 3.0.3 and Dash 3.3.1.

Thanks.

It's a very tiny bug, but I think it's work reporting anyway

The changelog for Alfred 3 is showing headers with hash signs instead of rendering as headers:

When using the modifier keys (like Ctrl for Search with the default web search, Alt for Search with Spotlight and Cmd for Reveal in Finder (if local)), the icon shown on Alfred should reflect the action that will be activated, like the default web search icon, the Spotlight icon and the Finder icon in the example I gave instead of the icon representing the result itself.

Thanks for making this available. One alternative to manually entering the PIN is saving it in the OS X KeyChain (in my case I save it as "RSA SecurID PIN" and then retrieving it with:

security -q find-generic-password -gl 'RSA SecurID PIN' 2>&1 | egrep '^password' | awk -F\\\" '{print $2}')

And then using this instead of {query} in the bash script, i.e.:

osascript Get-RSA-Key.scpt $(security -q find-generic-password -gl 'RSA SecurID PIN' 2>&1 | egrep '^password' | awk -F\\\" '{print $2}');
echo Copied key to clipboard: `pbpaste`

I'm getting two extra newlines when I expand a text shortcut, eg, I copy "test" to the clipboard when adding, and when expanding I get "test\n\n". Is this expected?

Yeah, this seems to be application-specific. Firefox behaves correctly: I have a Firefox window open on each display, after showing and hiding Alfred the focus returns to the correct (ie. the previously focused) window. If I have Sublime Text focused, after showing and hiding Alfred the focus always returns to the primary display.

Changing Alfred's preference to show on the active or default screen doesn't make a difference in this regard.

Is there some workaround you can do in Alfred, or can only the Sublime Text developer fix this?

Regards,

Daniel Serodio

Context: I have an external monitor plugged into my MBP. The main display is the MBP built-in, so that's where Alfred opens. Sublime Text is open and has multiple windows in both displays.

I'm using a Sublime Text window in the external (secondary) display, so it is focused. I hit Cmd+Opt+C (Sublime loses focus, Alfred is focused), select the snippet I want and hit Enter.

Results: The text is pasted in a Sublime window in the primary display

Expected results: The text should be pasted in the Sublime window that was focused when I hit Cmd+Opt+C, which is in the secondary display

@mrap, I tried to download it but the link's broken. Can you please post it again?

The link you posted now says it works in "OS X 10.9 Mavericks from Alfred 2.3 onwards", but the property value is an int from 0 to 15 instead of a float from 0.0 to 5.0.

It's working with Alfred 2.3 and OS X 10.9.3 for me.

For quick shell commands, including TAB support, I use DTerm

Forgive the newbie question, but how do I enable said blur?

Thanks