renforter Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 (edited) Alfred 5.0.6 (2110) on Mac OS 12.6.3 is not responding correctly to keywords Find and Open. Havent tried other keywords yet. With my Alfred hotkey I get the Alfred prompt but... When I type in Find alone it says "Reveal file in Finder" as the second option, but when I continue with the word I want to find it switches to Find Google, Amazon, and Wikipedia as the options available. When I type in Open alone it says "Open file... Search for files on your Mac and open" but when I continue with the filename I want to open it switches to the same three options. It was working before on another MacBookPro with the same Alfred and OS versions. But I restored from a Time Machine backup of that machine onto this new machine after upgrading it to the same OS version and the problem started when I try to use Alfred. One interesting point is that the Find and Open icon used initially is the Mac Finder icon, not the Alfred icon. Edited February 16, 2023 by renforter Link to comment
Stephen_C Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 Does Spotlight find the relevant files? Stephen Link to comment
renforter Posted February 16, 2023 Author Share Posted February 16, 2023 I have never used Spotlight much. But just now it does seem to find either files or the words in those files that I type in at the prompt. Roger Link to comment
Stephen_C Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 (edited) Try using the Alfred Preferences → Help → Troubleshooting → File Search troubleshooting on a file you can't find in Alfred. (Open Alfred Preferences and look for the Help in the list on the left.) Post the results here. Stephen Edited February 16, 2023 by Stephen_C Corrected typo Link to comment
renforter Posted February 16, 2023 Author Share Posted February 16, 2023 I ran the troubleshooting once and it recommended changing the search area from Default to the entire disk, which I did. That improved results dramatically, as might be expected. But I searched on "flavonoids" which should have been found in one file, so I did the trouble shooting on that file. The results are below. One error is listed: >>>>>>> Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS... ⚠️ Indexing may not be enabled on this drive /: Index is read-only. <<<<< From briefly perusing the troubleshooting on indexing it looks like I will have to do a low level reindex. How do I enable it for the full drive? Thanks, Starting Diagnostics... File: 'Quercetin.odt' Path: '/Users/roger/Documents/Shared/Health' ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file cache database... ✅ File cache integrity is ok ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if file is readable... ✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file. Unix Permissions: 420 Underlying Type: NSFileTypeRegular Extended Attributes: ( "com.apple.lastuseddate#PS", "com.apple.macl", "com.apple.quarantine" ) ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS... ⚠️ Indexing may not be enabled on this drive /: Index is read-only. ----------------------------------------------------------- Check direct file metadata... ✅ Direct metadata available Display Name: Quercetin.odt Other Names: Content Type: org.oasis-open.opendocument.text Last Used: ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ✅ Metadata contains required items _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "Quercetin.odt" kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2023-01-12 17:32:23 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2023-01-12 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2023-01-12 17:32:23 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate_Ranking = 2023-01-12 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentType = "org.oasis-open.opendocument.text" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "org.oasis-open.opendocument.text", "org.oasis-open.opendocument", "public.data", "public.item", "public.composite-content", "public.content" ) kMDItemDateAdded = 2023-02-15 04:14:05 +0000 kMDItemDateAdded_Ranking = 2023-02-15 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemDisplayName = "Quercetin.odt" kMDItemDocumentIdentifier = 0 kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2023-01-12 17:32:23 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2023-01-12 17:32:23 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null) kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0 kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null) kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "Quercetin.odt" kMDItemFSNodeCount = (null) kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 298969 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2023-01-12 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemKind = "OpenDocument Text (.odt) Document" kMDItemLogicalSize = 298969 kMDItemPhysicalSize = 299008 ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file is in search scope... ✅ File exists within Alfred's default search scope ----------------------------------------------------------- Check MDQuery file search... ✅ macOS returned a match for this file in your search scope. File Search Results for search scope ( "[0] /System/Volumes/Data/Users/roger/Documents/Shared/Health/Quercetin.odt" ) File Search Results for ~/ ( ) File Search Results for / ( "[0] /System/Volumes/Data/Users/roger/Documents/Shared/Health/Quercetin.odt" ) ----------------------------------------------------------- ✅ Troubleshooting passed ⚠️ There were 1 warning(s) Link to comment
Stephen_C Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 5 minutes ago, renforter said: From briefly perusing the troubleshooting on indexing it looks like I will have to do a low level reindex. How do I enable it for the full drive? Take a look towards the bottom of this Alfred help page. Stephen Link to comment
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