Hi guys,
Alfred's becoming a bit annoying to use due to the mismatched priority it gives to one drive over the other. Allow me to elaborate:
Drive A is my primary SSD, which has the most pertinent information.
Drive B is a secondary (platter) drive on my machine, which is mostly mass storage, but from time to time I need some stuff on it.
However, Alfred seems to prioritize Drive B in its searches, to the point where it's actively *not* finding more relevant files in Drive A. So then I wonder "Hey, Alfred can't find it, am I typing things correctly?" The answer invariably turns out to be "yes" -- I typed things in correctly, but Alfred returned a bunch of crap from Drive B instead of that one file I need on Drive A.
Example:
I have a file called "Songs to Download" on Drive A, a file I frequently access because I save names of songs I'll want to purchase in the future. I made "o" stand in for "open" in my Alfred. So when I type in:
* o so -- I get a bunch of "So" files that are on Drive B, "songs to download" is not even part of the list
* o son -- I get a bunch of Sony camera photos that are on Drive B, "songs to download" is not even part of the list
* o song -- I get a bunch of songs on Drive B, half of which do not include the word "song" in their titles, "songs to download" is not even part of the list
* o songs -- I finally get "songs to download" as a top result, even though I've accessed this file 1000x more than any other file that starts with "so."
If I remove Drive B from the Search Scope list, everything goes magically delicious -- but then 2/3s of my overall information can't be accessed. Also, I didn't add the entire Drive B, just the main Documents folder within which the most pertinent Drive B information resides.
Any thoughts? What am I doing wrong? I tried adding the Drive A Home folder in the Search Scope, and even the most-often-used folder from Drive A into the Search Scope -- neither helped. Neither did Clearing Knowledge, and starting from scratch.
Thanks a bunch!
Helpful info: Alfred 2.5.1(308). But I've had the same issues for quite a while, regardless of Alfred version. Also, here's a pic of the Search Scope: http://cl.ly/image/3i050C044516 ~/Documents usually isn't on there -- that was just a test that made no difference. I also recently removed all the extraneous paths that I never search, just to make sure that wasn't screwing things up. Nothing changed.