Mark S Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 Is there a way to allow Alfred to search for hidden folders with the file search menu? I would like to include ~/.config within the search result so I don't have to type it in directly. I tried adding ~/.config to the list of search folders but it didn't work. Thanks. Link to comment
deanishe Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 Hi @Mark S, welcome to the forum. I'm afraid it's not possible to search directories like ~/.config in Alfred because the OS doesn't index hidden files and directories (amongst other things). You can navigate into the directory, but its contents are invisible to Alfred's native search. To search inside such directories, you'd need to use a workflow that searches using some other mechanism than the OS metadata index. Link to comment
Mark S Posted October 11, 2021 Author Share Posted October 11, 2021 (edited) Thanks for the info. That makes a lot of sense. Edited October 11, 2021 by Mark S Link to comment
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