When searching files, having an hyphen at the start or end makes results disappear

[vitor]

When searching files, having an hyphen at the start or end makes results disappear:

 

 

Not the same as

I don’t have that issue.

 

Alfred 4.5 [1249]

macOS Big Sur 11.5 (20G71)

[Andrew]

@vitor very interesting, looks to be a behaviour change in the underlying index, as this is working on Mojave:

 

 

I can reproduce this issue in Big Sur, so I'll take a look at what could be causing this.

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[Andrew]

So it seems that the underlying metadata server doesn't like the trailing -. In fact, Spotlight on Big Sur also doesn't match with the trailing -.

 

It looks like this behaviour, previously working in Mojave, seems to have been rectified in Monterey so I'm going to close this issue as I don't want to put in temporary workarounds.