Alfred pastes the same snippet multiple times

[ryqiem]

Hi guys!

 

The bug is as in the title.

 

I have no other text-expanders installed.

 

A reboot fixes the issue, but it gradually re-appears over the next day.

 

I've tried increasing the clipboard delay to 0,9 seconds to no avail.

 

Running alfred 3.7 on 10.14 on a 13" MBA 2012.

 

Any tips? ?

 

Thanks!

Martin

[Vero]

@ryqiem Alfred's snippets text expansion is quite straightforward, so there's likely some interference from a third-party somewhere.

 

When the issue occurs, does it occur for any/all snippets or only some specific ones? And how many times is "multiple times"? Twice or more?

 

In terms of what the interference could be:

• Could you check the macOS built-in text expansion for any snippets there? (System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts)
• Do you use a non-Apple keyboard? 
• Do you use keyboard modifier apps like remappers, etc?

Let me know how you get on with the above

 

Cheers,
Vero

 

 

[sarimabbas]

I'm having the same issue (created a forum account just for this). 

 

I have some built-in snippets, but they do not conflict with my Alfred snippets. Could they still be causing the issue? Must I delete all my built-in snippets?

 

I also see similar behavior: I have to reboot or quit Alfred and restart so that the snippet behavior is normal again.

• I do not use any other text expanders.
• I have an Apple Keyboard (MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) UK version). 
• I do not use any keyboard modifier apps 

Thanks for the help : )

[Vero]

@sarimabbas A few more questions:

 

* If you open Activity Monitor, can you please check whether there are multiple instances of Alfred? If so, it's likely that a workflow is force-launching a second instance of Alfred, so could you please take a look at your workflows and share any (or at least names of any) that could be telling Alfred to launch, e.g. by script?

* If you change the keyword for your snippet, do you get one or more expansions?

 

Let me know how you get on

 

Cheers,
Vero

[sarimabbas]

Thank you for your response Vero!

 

Yes indeed, there are multiple instances of Alfred on Activity Monitor.

 

I could not seem to pinpoint which workflow was causing the trouble. I had a suspicion it was an emoji workflow, which I have deleted. I'll post an update here if I do not encounter the problem again in the next few days. 

 

Thanks for the help : )

[ryqiem]

@sarimabbas The Emoji AI workflow? I had the same workflow enabled, just removed it.

 

Will post back in a week with how it went!

[Vero]

@ryqiem @sarimabbas Could you give me a link to the workflow or let me know who created it? I'll get in touch with them to help them tweak the workflow and stop this from happening

 

Cheers,
Vero

[ryqiem]

@Vero https://github.com/jukben/alfred-emoji – though I wasn't running the latest version, so can't comment on whether this still applies 🙂

[sarimabbas]

Just wanted to confirm; I've had no trouble since. Thanks for the help @Vero and @ryqiem : )

Edited December 2, 2018 by sarimabbas

[ryqiem]

Same here. Thanks! @Vero

[jukben]

Hey! 

 

Creator of alfred-emoji here. 👋 There is an issue created - issue-6 . Thanks for that. Could you please provide steps to reproduce I'd love to fix it. 

 

Best,

Edited December 4, 2018 by jukben

[janclarin]

Hello!

 

I'm the author of emoji-alfred-workflow, the other alfy-based emoji workflow causing a stir over here and on a GitHub issue.

 

@Vero, what can we do to prevent this issue in our workflows? I'd love to fix it too.

Edited December 26, 2018 by janclarin

[deanishe]

Hi guys, here's the cause of the bug.

 

It's a known issue and the fix is trivial. They've just been sitting on it for six months.

Edited December 27, 2018 by deanishe

[bnwd]

Just experienced this issue, also have @jukben's emoji workflow installed. Quitting the duplicate process from Activity Monitor fixed it.