Dominik Mayer Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 (edited) After I migrated from a MacBook to a Mac Studio Alfred does no longer find files in my home folder. Here's the output for one file on the Desktop: Quote Starting Diagnostics... File: 'IMG_3248.heic' Path: '/Users/dominik/Desktop' ----------------------------------------------------------- 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.metadata:kMDItemDownloadedDate", "com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms", "com.apple.metadata:kMDLabel_c7tubomxoblkmg7dr5jb4ouhx4", "com.apple.quarantine" ) ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS... ✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive ----------------------------------------------------------- Check direct file metadata... ✅ Direct metadata available Display Name: IMG_3248.heic Other Names: Content Type: public.heic Last Used: 2022-09-11 18:05:43 +0000 ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ✅ Metadata contains required items _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "IMG_3248.heic" kMDItemAestheticScore = 0.0266571 kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2022-09-11 09:32:21 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2023-07-27 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2022-09-11 09:32:21 +0000 kMDItemContentRating = 0 kMDItemContentType = "public.heic" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "public.heic", "public.heif-standard", "public.image", "public.data", "public.item", "public.content" ) kMDItemDateAdded = 2023-07-27 18:21:33 +0000 kMDItemDisplayName = "IMG_3248.heic" kMDItemDocumentIdentifier = 295 kMDItemDownloadedDate = 2022-09-11 09:32:21 +0000 kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2022-09-11 09:32:21 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2022-09-11 09:32:21 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null) kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0 kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null) kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "IMG_3248.heic" kMDItemFSNodeCount = (null) kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 16187 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2022-09-11 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemKind = "HEIF-Image" kMDItemLastUsedDate = 2022-09-11 18:05:43 +0000 kMDItemLastUsedDate_Ranking = 2022-09-11 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemLogicalSize = 16187 kMDItemMediaAnalysisLastAttempt = 2023-07-28 00:50:39 +0000 kMDItemPhotosCharacterRecognitionAnalysisVersion = (null) kMDItemPhotosSceneAnalysisVersion = (null) kMDItemPhysicalSize = 16384 kMDItemUseCount = 1 kMDItemUsedDates = ( "2022-09-11 07:00:00 +0000" ) kMDItemWhereFroms = ( "trangmail@icloud.com", "U\U0308ber die Nachrichten-Dateiu\U0308bertragung empfangen" ) ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file is in search scope... ✅ File exists within Alfred's default search scope ----------------------------------------------------------- Check MDQuery file search... ❌ macOS did not return a match for this file in your search scope. Try resetting Alfred's Preferences > Features > Default Results > Search Scope > Reset... to "Reset to Full Disk" File Search Results for search scope ( ) File Search Results for ~/ ( ) File Search Results for / ( "[0] /System/Volumes/Data/Users/dominik/Desktop/IMG_3248.heic" ) ----------------------------------------------------------- ❌ Troubleshooting failed And one for a file in the downloads folder: Quote Starting Diagnostics... File: 'image.png' Path: '/Users/dominik/Downloads' ----------------------------------------------------------- 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.macl", "com.apple.metadata:kMDLabel_c7tubomxoblkmg7dr5jb4ouhx4", "com.apple.quarantine", "com.dropbox.attrs" ) ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS... ✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive ----------------------------------------------------------- Check direct file metadata... ✅ Direct metadata available Display Name: image.png Other Names: Content Type: public.png Last Used: ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ✅ Metadata contains required items _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "image.png" kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2022-04-19 15:25:16 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2023-07-27 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2022-04-19 15:25:16 +0000 kMDItemContentType = "public.png" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "public.png", "public.image", "public.data", "public.item", "public.content" ) kMDItemDateAdded = 2023-07-27 18:22:23 +0000 kMDItemDisplayName = "image.png" kMDItemDocumentIdentifier = 0 kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2022-04-19 15:25:16 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2022-04-19 15:25:16 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null) kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0 kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null) kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "image.png" kMDItemFSNodeCount = (null) kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 57089 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2022-04-19 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemKind = "PNG-Bild" kMDItemLogicalSize = 57089 kMDItemPhysicalSize = 57344 ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file is in search scope... ✅ File exists within Alfred's default search scope ----------------------------------------------------------- Check MDQuery file search... ❌ macOS did not return a match for this file in your search scope. Try resetting Alfred's Preferences > Features > Default Results > Search Scope > Reset... to "Reset to Full Disk" File Search Results for search scope ( ) File Search Results for ~/ ( ) File Search Results for / ( "[1] /System/Volumes/Data/Users/dominik/Downloads/image.png" ) ----------------------------------------------------------- ❌ Troubleshooting failed The files are accessible via Spotlight. The files are also accessible in Alfred if I click Reset… -> Reset to Full Disk. They are not accessible when I select Reset… -> Reset to Alfred Defaults or Reset to Applications and Home even though both files are located in the home folder. I do not have a custom Home Folder set in the advanced File Search settings. I can access the files if I type `~` in Alfred and navigate to Downloads or Desktop. If I type cd ~ in a terminal, I get to /Users/dominik: > cd ~ > pwd /Users/dominik What can I do? Edited July 28, 2023 by Dominik Mayer Link to comment
Stephen_C Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 (edited) What versions of Alfred and macOS are you using? The reason I ask is because when I migrated to a new MacBook Pro (running Ventura) earlier in the year I had the same problem as you but it was cured: initially by resetting Alfred's default search scope (as you did); but subsequently by an update to Alfred (although I don't know recall which update made Alfred's default search settings again work). For what it's worth I'm using Alfred 5.1.2 under macOS 13.5 (and Alfred's default search settings work as they should). Edit: welcome to the forum! Stephen Edited July 28, 2023 by Stephen_C Link to comment
Dominik Mayer Posted July 28, 2023 Author Share Posted July 28, 2023 I'm on Alfred 5.1.1 [2138] and on macOS Ventura 13.5 (22G74). I can't see newer versions for either. Link to comment
Stephen_C Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 (edited) Alfred 5.1.2 is pre-release (sorry, I should have mentioned that)—but that is not the version that fixed the default search settings problem for me. I'm not sure if you've worked through all the suggestions on this Alfred help page: Troubleshooting File Indexing Issues. If you've not yet done so it would probably be worthwhile trying the suggestions. Edit: in passing, migration created a number of problems for me—the one to which you refer among them. Stephen Edited July 28, 2023 by Stephen_C Link to comment
Dominik Mayer Posted July 28, 2023 Author Share Posted July 28, 2023 I think I've done all except the Spotlight ones as Spotlight properly indexes the files and Alfred can find them when setting the too broad search scope. This looks like an Alfred thing to me. Link to comment
Vero Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 6 minutes ago, Dominik Mayer said: This looks like an Alfred thing to me. @Dominik Mayer Welcome to the forum As @Stephen_C highlights, this is an issue caused by the macOS Migration Assistant, where paths from the previous Mac/macOS version are not correctly set on the new Mac. Using the broader scope is one workaround, but most users find this resolves after a deep reindex (Step 6 here) or over a period of time where macOS naturally rebuilds the index and likely works past the legacy paths that were migrated. Dominik Mayer 1 Link to comment
Dominik Mayer Posted July 28, 2023 Author Share Posted July 28, 2023 So I should have done the Spotlight steps 🙈. Thanks for letting me know. I guess I'll set the broader search scope until the Mac is done re-indexing. Link to comment
Dominik Mayer Posted August 4, 2023 Author Share Posted August 4, 2023 In case others stumble upon this thread. I noticed other issues and ended up deleting the folder @Vero suggested (Step 6 here). After a restart and a couple of hours everything worked as expected. Link to comment
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