nikivi Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 I am using this workflow to search folders only on my mac. However for some reason this filter searches folders it shouldn't search because I excluded them in Spotlight settings: Alfred all file search respects it: But the folder search filter doesn't and shows folders inside ~/Dropbox/Alfred. Am I doing something wrong? Also I was curious about this setting page: There is no ~/ in there. So no ~/Documents and no ~/Desktop and so on. Is it implicit that it's searching home directory too? Link to comment
nikivi Posted September 5, 2018 Author Share Posted September 5, 2018 (edited) Actually never mind, Alfred default search also doesn't respect it. I am rebuilding macOS metadata index now which should take an hour it says. I guess I have to run that every time I make a change to Spotlight settings. I didn't want to call it because I didn't want to lose whatever caching Alfred had for indexing. I just wanted it to ignore one folder. It seems extreme to rebuild entire spotlight index just so that I have Alfred ignore one folder from my results. Edited September 5, 2018 by nikivi Link to comment
nikivi Posted September 5, 2018 Author Share Posted September 5, 2018 Update: It seems that rebuilding entire spotlight index solved it. I wish there was a lightweight solution to have Alfred ignore certain paths from its search scope without rebuilding entire index which takes a while and loses all the caching good parts. Link to comment
dfay Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Just add the tag alfred:ignore to the file or folder - works for me anyway. nikivi and evanfuchs 2 Link to comment
Tsunami Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 16 hours ago, nikivi said: There is no ~/ in there. So no ~/Documents and no ~/Desktop and so on. Is it implicit that it's searching home directory too? There's an "Include folders in Home" checkbox directly below the Search Scope list. Link to comment
nikivi Posted September 6, 2018 Author Share Posted September 6, 2018 8 hours ago, Tsunami said: There's an "Include folders in Home" checkbox Thanks. For some reason, I didn't notice it. Link to comment
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