Expand Path When Moving Files

[Cappyboppy]

I am a relatively new Alfred user, and just discovered the wonderful file navigation functionality. But I've been frustrated by one aspect of it, probably missing something obvious: how do you expand a path when moving a file? For instance, when navigating to a file, both ⌅ and → expand the path; but then when moving a file, both ⌅ and → simply execute sending the file there. This means that I effectively have to type out the entire path name of the destination directory. Surely I am missing a better way of doing this?

[Andrew]

@Cappyboppy While navigating in both Alfred's File System Navigating, and Action, you can use the tab key to auto-complete the currently typed path.

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[Cappyboppy]

Thanks for the response, @Andrew . But I swear ↹ tab doesn't work for me. Any idea why not?

Edited February 5, 2020 by Cappyboppy

[vitor]

@Cappyboppy I’m unsure if I understood your issue, but does ⇧⇥ work to autocomplete? If so, look under Alfred Preferences → Features → Actions → General → Show actions and disable the keys you don’t want to action items.

[Cappyboppy]

@vitor Right, the autocomplete is not working. Neither ⇧⇥  nor just ⇥ autocompletes. (And I experimented in the Action preferences, as you suggested; if I mark ⇥ as Show Action, ⇧⇥ still does not autocomplete.)

 

Any other ideas? Very strange...

[deanishe]

Do you use any software that messes with the keyboard, like Karabiner.

[Cappyboppy]

I don't think so... but I'll see if I have the same issue on other computers when I get a chance.

[Cappyboppy]

Okay, I've now tried tabbing on multiple computers using the same Alfred profile, and it doesn't work. Does that mean that a Workflow is likely causing the problem?

[deanishe]

30 minutes ago, Cappyboppy said:

Does that mean that a Workflow is likely causing the problem?

 

Workflows can't interfere with Alfred like that.

[Cappyboppy]

So I guess I'm just out of luck then? I have no idea where to even begin looking for another app that for some reason controls ⇥ in Alfred...

 

(And I did try it with a default profile, so it must not have to do with any of my Alfred settings...)

[deanishe]

1 minute ago, Cappyboppy said:

I have no idea where to even begin looking for another app that for some reason controls ⇥ in Alfred...

 

Try stopping everything in your status bar: most background apps have a status bar icon.

[Cappyboppy]

Tried it; no luck...  (But thanks for the suggestion!)

 

What a weird problem...

[leahcim]

To be sure, using tab to autocomplete only works if there is a single matching result - do you have only one result? e.g. when typing ~/Appl

[Cappyboppy]

Oh. Yeah, that does work, actually... Thanks @leahcim, and sorry everyone else...

 

There is no way to make it so that the tab fill-in works for whichever result is currently highlighted? That seems like the obvious default to me...

Edited February 12, 2020 by Cappyboppy

[leahcim]

I agree, that would be my preferred solution as well - or, even better, cycling through all matches. Same as in most terminals.