Alfred not finding Homebrew apps on M1 (/opt/homebrew)

[mfisher 0]

Hi!

 

I install Emacs from Homebrew. For years, Alfred has been able to find it. On the new M1 Macs, the Homebrew (v3) location is in /opt/homebrew.

 

Here's my Emacs.app:

% ls -lA /opt/homebrew/Cellar/emacs-plus@28/28.0.50| grep Emacs
drwxr-xr-x  3 mfisher  staff     96 Feb 14 11:51 Emacs.app

 

Per the recipe instructions, I did:

To link the application to default Homebrew App location:
  ln -s /opt/homebrew/opt/emacs-plus@28/Emacs.app /Applications

 

I added `/opt/homebrew/Cellar` into my Alfred search scope. But when I activate Alfred and type "emacs", Alfred doesn't find it.

 

Alfred v4.3.2 [1220]

macOS Version 11.3 Beta (20E5172i)

 

Thanks!

 

[vitor 879]

I went to take a look and noticed /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom is part of the defaults. That no longer makes sense, @Andrew, as anyone with their Caskroom on that location has a really old and unsupported installation which I doubt even works. And I agree /opt/homebrew/Cellar makes sense to add.

 

@mfisher Does Spotlight find that Emacs? Alfred depends on it.

[Andrew 823]

@vitor should /usr/local/Cellar remain, or be removed too?

[deanishe 1,405]

10 hours ago, vitor said:

And I agree /opt/homebrew/Cellar makes sense to add.

 

It’s in /opt, not /usr/local/opt?

 

[vitor 879]

3 hours ago, Andrew said:

should /usr/local/Cellar remain, or be removed too?

Remain. That continues to be the default location on Intel processors, the new location is for ARM. Both can be installed at the same time.

 

2 hours ago, deanishe said:

It’s in /opt, not /usr/local/opt?

Correct.

[mfisher 0]

On 2/14/2021 at 6:52 PM, vitor said:

 

@mfisher Does Spotlight find that Emacs? Alfred depends on it.

 

@vitor It does not. Are there any clever ways to force indexing on a path? I tried Apple's procedure to rebuild a Spotlight index for /opt.

 

For the time being, I made a workflow to launch Emacs, so I am content again.

 

Thanks!

 

 

Starting Diagnostics...

File: 'Emacs.app'
Path: '/Applications'

-----------------------------------------------------------

Check file cache database...

✅ File cache integrity is ok

-----------------------------------------------------------

Check if file is readable...

✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file.

-----------------------------------------------------------

Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS...

✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive

-----------------------------------------------------------

Check direct file metadata...

✅ Direct metadata available

Display Name: Emacs.app
 Other Names: 
Content Type: com.apple.application-bundle
   Last Used: 2021-02-14 16:51:11 +0000

-----------------------------------------------------------

Check mdls file metadata...

❌ macOS metadata missing essential items

kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2021-02-14 16:51:11 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate      = 2021-01-10 01:11:39 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode       = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags       = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon     = 0
kMDItemFSInvisible         = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery      = 0
kMDItemFSLabel             = 0
kMDItemFSName              = "Emacs.app"
kMDItemFSNodeCount         = 1
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID      = 20
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID       = 501
kMDItemFSSize              = 1
kMDItemFSTypeCode          = ""

-----------------------------------------------------------

❌ Troubleshooting failed
 

Edited February 21 by mfisher

[deanishe 1,405]

2 hours ago, mfisher said:

Are there any clever ways to force indexing on a path?

 

Have you tried mdimport?

 

[mfisher 0]

20 hours ago, deanishe said:

 

Have you tried mdimport?

 

 

I did:

sudo chflags nohidden /opt
mdimport /opt

 

The Alfred troubleshooting output didn't change.

 

Thanks!

 

[deanishe 1,405]

I'm out of ideas, I'm afraid

[mfisher 0]

56 minutes ago, deanishe said:

I'm out of ideas, I'm afraid

Thanks so much for sharing your ideas!