Why is the alfred prefence file so monstrously large?

[wengwengweng]

It's 20mb, what's inside?

[Tsunami]

It contains all your preferences, snippets, themes and workflows.

[wengwengweng]

1 hour ago, Tsunami said:

It contains all your preferences, snippets, themes and workflows.

 

Shouldn't them all be text files? What's so big?

[dfay]

Icons, python libraries, etc.  Lots of workflows use additional resources.

[Tsunami]

You can right-click on the .alfredpreferences file and click Show Package Contents to see what's taking up the space.

[wengwengweng]

21 minutes ago, Tsunami said:

You can right-click on the .alfredpreferences file and click Show Package Contents to see what's taking up the space.

 

25 minutes ago, dfay said:

Icons, python libraries, etc.  Lots of workflows use additional resources.

 

Thank you, I see. Alfred is saving all the workflows contents along with the package. But there's a "remote/images/items" folder that stores some high resolution icons holding 10m of space, what's that for?

[dfay]

What it says presumably - images for Alfred remote.

 

Are you really that strapped for bandwidth and disk space that this is an issue?

[juliosecco]

well, in the case of workflows, they could contain just everything, but especially text and maybe images