When I'm trying to search or open a file, it doesn't show file very frequently

[rightx2]

I use alfred to open file via  '`' or 'open' command. When I enter this command with file name it works well very few times...

 

Very Frequently alfred doesn't show anything at all!  If I wait for 3~5mins it works again.....

 

I don't know why this happens... It is really inconveninent to find my file by myself everytime it happend...

 

I also tried 'Clear application cache' but it doesn't work....

 

Any idea?

 

[Jer]

I about the same problem!

 

In my case I can't even start a file search. After opening alfred> type ' > type the first letter of file I want to find

 

alfred add's " and want to execute the fallback search option (that is search and show result with google,  amazon and wikipedia)

 

Did anyone report this?

 OSX 10.12.4 (16E195)

[Vero]

Hi @rightx2 and @Jer, Have you both taken a look at the file indexing troubleshooting page?

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/indexing/

 

It's likely that you simply need to rebuild your Mac's metadata index. 

 

Take a look at the steps on this page and let me know how you get on

 

Cheers,
Vero