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Hello,

I have bought Alfred yesterday and I am loving it, thanks to finally accessible Workflow Editor with Voiceover. However my problem is that the app doesn't show files on my external drive, even though Spotlight does. When I prefix my search with space and type the file name, it is not found on the external drive. How can I enable external drive indexing?

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I have tried all mentioned solutions: widened the scope, reindexed spotlight, followed all troubleshooting guides concerning this subject. Nothing helped. Troubleshooting report in Alfred 5 is saying, that my files on the external drive exist within Alfred's scope, but the very same files are NEVER shown in a search with Alfred! Needless to say that Spotlight on the same computer shows all files. It's really frustrating.

 

Below is the output of Alfred's own troubleshooting for a file called Fractal1.png. Alfred is not showing this file as a result if I search for it. I tried searching with a part of the name, with the whole name (uppercase/lowercase), with the prefix 'open', with spacebar...

If I move the file to the internal drive it occurs in the results immediately. Alfred is ignoring it just on my external drive.

 

How can I convince Alfred that he has to show me files on the external drive, too?

 

 

Starting Diagnostics...

File: 'Fractal1.png'
Path: '/Volumes/Daten/Dropbox/Bilder/Fractals'

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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 '/Volumes/Daten/' is indexed by macOS...

Indexing is enabled on this drive

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Check direct file metadata...

Direct metadata available

Display Name: Fractal1.png
 Other Names: 
Content Type: public.png
   Last Used: 

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Check mdls file metadata...

Metadata contains required items

_kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions      = "Fractal1.png"
kMDItemBitsPerSample                   = 24
kMDItemColorSpace                      = "RGB"
kMDItemContentCreationDate             = 2012-12-22 07:17:02 +0000
kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking     = 2012-12-22 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate         = 2012-12-22 07:17:02 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate_Ranking = 2012-12-22 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemContentType                     = "public.png"
kMDItemContentTypeTree                 = (
    "public.png",
    "public.image",
    "public.data",
    "public.item",
    "public.content"
)
kMDItemDateAdded                       = 2022-02-07 15:36:30 +0000
kMDItemDateAdded_Ranking               = 2022-02-07 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemDisplayName                     = "Fractal1.png"
kMDItemDocumentIdentifier              = 0
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate             = 2012-12-22 07:17:02 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate                  = 2012-12-22 07:17:02 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode                   = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags                   = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon                 = (null)
kMDItemFSInvisible                     = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden             = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery                  = (null)
kMDItemFSLabel                         = 0
kMDItemFSName                          = "Fractal1.png"
kMDItemFSNodeCount                     = (null)
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID                  = 99
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID                   = 99
kMDItemFSSize                          = 798188
kMDItemFSTypeCode                      = ""
kMDItemHasAlphaChannel                 = 0
kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking         = 2012-12-22 00:00:00 +0000
kMDItemKind                            = "PNG-Bild"
kMDItemLogicalSize                     = 798188
kMDItemOrientation                     = 0
kMDItemPhysicalSize                    = 798720
kMDItemPixelCount                      = 360000
kMDItemPixelHeight                     = 450
kMDItemPixelWidth                      = 800
kMDItemProfileName                     = "Adobe RGB (1998)"

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Check file is in search scope...

File exists within Alfred's default search scope

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Troubleshooting passed
 

Edited by SignurGian
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