Teach Alfred to select app with single letter

[bnwd]

I want to be able to invoke 'Google Chrome' with 'c'. I am using full fuzzy mode, and if I perform a search for 'c' then Chrome is not in the list, so there's no way to teach Alfred to map 'c' to 'Google Chrome'. Is there a solution to this?

[vitor]

Start with chr and select it a few times, then ch, then you’ll get it on c.

[jamesharrisphoto]

I have this same problem too. The training is a pain sometimes. Will there be a feature in a future update (4?) that will let you actually edit each app with a custom letter or letters? LaunchBar lets you choose the letter combo for each app, but LaunchBar is a little too plain for my tastes.

[bnwd]

I resolved the issue by first rebuilding the MacOS metadata, and then after that clearing the cache. Took a bit of experimentation to figure out why this wasn't working. Thanks for input everyone. 

[bnwd]

Ok, turns out it is not resolved. 

 

Here is what happens:

 

- Clear knowledge

- Clear cache

- Teach Alfred how to Find 'spark.app' with 'spar', 'spa', 'spa', 'spa', 'sp', 'sp', sp', 's'. Everything works great. 

- Carry on working for an hour, switching back and forth

- Search for spark with 's', or 'sp' and it's not even on the list. The list is populated with things that don't even have 'sp' in their name (I haven't accidentally trained Alfred to open any of these apps with 'sp' either. I have experienced this scenario a few times now. 

 

It seems that 'Spark' is the only search where I'm having this problem. Searching for 'sp' or 's' seems to yield the exact same results that doesn't seem right to me. Wondering if there's a workflow, configuration or bug that's causing this somewhere. 🤔

 

Does anybody know how to fix this!? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 13, 2019 by bnwd

[bnwd]

So this issue disappeared after Spark.app was updated via the App Store. I'm guessing some kind of permissions issue? Odd.