Force Something to Show up in Search

[jyoshimi]

Hi everyone,

 

Sometimes there is a file I use a lot and I love it when I can get to it in a few key-presses with Alfred.  This happens after I find it once and then open it a few times, so I assume Alfred has some way of ordering search results by use, which is the main reason I use Alfred (side questions: am I right about this, and if so, is the algorithm documented somewhere?).

 

The issue I am running into is that after the latest mac update all that information seems to have been lost, and I want to find a way to make files show up again in Alfred search. This is usually easy, but sometimes there is a file that it is not listed anywhere in the Alfred search results, even though I know the file to be in the search scope, as if there is some limit as to how much Alfred will display.  Is there a way to either expand how many items are displayed,  or to force something to be the first item displayed?  Actually if there is a direct way to just force something to show up at the top of a file search that would be ideal.

 

I suspect this has been discussed before and I did look around, but it was one of those cases where I wasn't even sure what the right search phrase would be to find this information.  I did find this which helped

 

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

 

Apologies if I'm overlooking some existing docs or discussion here on the forum. If so a link would be great. Thanks,

 

- Jeff

[jyoshimi]

Ugh sorry everyone I see that similar issues are being discussed by others.   I obviously didn't look hard enough.   Still if there are any quick tips or links to specific forum posts I'd appreciate it.  I'm using 3.5.1 (883) on OS X High Sierra 10.13.1

[Andrew]

@jyoshimi if you update to 10.13.2, then these issues should be addressed. They were caused by underlying bugs in macOS 10.13.

 

Here is a thread where I discuss this:

 

 

Cheers,

Andrew