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I have Alfred 2 set with a Search Scope that includes this path:

 

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform

 

But it won't find anything at that level in the hierarchy or below. Is it because it's a bundle?

 

OS X is a bit funny how it indexes these folders as they are in a bundle. However, if you add:

 

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/

 

Alfred will find the iPhone Simulator :)

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OS X is a bit funny how it indexes these folders as they are in a bundle. However, if you add:

 

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/

 

Alfred will find the iPhone Simulator :)

That's useful only if I'm trying to find the iPhone Simulator, but I'm trying to find things inside the path in my original post. :)

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That's useful only if I'm trying to find the iPhone Simulator, but I'm trying to find things inside the path in my original post. :)

 

You may find adding the specific paths to the items you need will work. Unlike folders outside of a bundle, it doesn't look like OS X's metadata server recursively searches when looking in a bundle.

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You may find adding the specific paths to the items you need will work. Unlike folders outside of a bundle, it doesn't look like OS X's metadata server recursively searches when looking in a bundle.

I'm not looking for anything recursive. It should fine files in the top level of that path. Here's another path I entered:

 

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Extras/Applications

 

The folder contains 15 applications and Alfred doesn't find any of them.

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I'm not looking for anything recursive. It should fine files in the top level of that path. Here's another path I entered:

 

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Extras/Applications

 

The folder contains 15 applications and Alfred doesn't find any of them.

 

I don't have that folder in Xcode - what did you install to get it?

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