duplicate shell script which I run via Alfred dozens of times daily can't be found anymore!!

[jpage4500]

This is a perplexing one to me -- and it's happened to several different files in the past and I don't understand why.

 

I run a shell script via Alfred dozens of times daily.. it's a bash script called "screenMirror.sh". There's a few other similarly named scripts in the same folder which are found - but not "screenMirror.sh".. any idea why it would just disappear from the list?

 

I did edit the script.. that seems to be what caused Alfred to stop displaying it in the results. But how do I get it back again?

 

Note that even "find screenMirror.sh" doesn't find this file either.. again, I've been running it daily using Alfred so it's like it's been blocked somehow from displaying

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jpage4500]

Also, I'm running Mac 11.4 (Big Sur) and the latest version of Alfred (4.6.1)

[jpage4500]

last note -- results from diagnostics.. not sure what this means "Direct metadata is missing, this file is likely not indexed by macOS"

 

I did find the file in a spotlight search earlier but just tried it now and it's not found..

 

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Starting Diagnostics...

File: 'screenMirror.sh'
Path: '/Users/jpage/GoogleDrive/bin'

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Check file cache database...

✅ File cache integrity is ok

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Check if file is readable...

✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file.

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

✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive

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Check direct file metadata...

⚠️ Direct metadata is missing, this file is likely not indexed by macOS

Display Name: 
 Other Names: 
Content Type: 
   Last Used: 

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Check mdls file metadata...

❌ macOS metadata missing essential items

kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = (null)
kMDItemFSCreationDate      = (null)
kMDItemFSCreatorCode       = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags       = (null)
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon     = (null)
kMDItemFSInvisible         = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = (null)
kMDItemFSIsStationery      = (null)
kMDItemFSLabel             = (null)
kMDItemFSName              = (null)
kMDItemFSNodeCount         = (null)
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID      = (null)
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID       = (null)
kMDItemFSSize              = (null)
kMDItemFSTypeCode          = ""

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❌ Troubleshooting failed
 

[deanishe]

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