sleuth Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 Since upgrading to Alfred 5, my search results no longer contain the web apps I've "installed" to my Mac via Chrome. I've cleared the Application Cache, I've rebuilt macOS Metadata, I've uninstalled and reinstalled Alfred 5, starting with fresh preferences. I have the Chrome Apps folder in the list of Search Scope folders. Screenshot of Default Results preferences attached. I'm on Alfred version 5.1.4 [2195], macOS Sonoma 14.1 (23B74), Chrome 118.0.5993.117 Please help! These are my most common used apps like gmail and google calendar, it's really frustrating not to have them accessible via Alfred. Thanks in advance for your help 🙏 Link to comment
Vero Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 @sleuth Could you drag one of those Chrome apps to Alfred's File Troubleshooting tool? https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/indexing/ According to a thread from 2014, these are just bookmarks but the app is still Chrome as far as macOS is concerned. Your best bet may be to create custom keywords like these to launch the specific "apps" from Alfred: https://www.alfredapp.com/blog/tips-and-tricks/give-files-nicknames-to-find-them-faster/ sleuth 1 Link to comment
sleuth Posted November 5, 2023 Author Share Posted November 5, 2023 Thanks @Vero! I did that and that showed that the error is "macOS did not return a match for this file in your search scope.". The recommendation is to set the search scope to full disk. I tried that and that did resolve the issue. Great! I'm confused as to why though. Seems like it's something to do with macOS rather than Alfred? Is there a performance cost to having the scope set to the full disk? Starting Diagnostics... File: 'Gmail.app' Path: '/Users/sleuth/Applications/Chrome Apps.localized' ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file cache database... ✅ File cache integrity is ok ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if file is readable... ✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file. Unix Permissions: 493 Underlying Type: NSFileTypeDirectory Extended Attributes: ( "com.apple.macl" ) ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS... ✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive ----------------------------------------------------------- Check direct file metadata... ✅ Direct metadata available Display Name: Gmail Other Names: Gmail.app Content Type: com.apple.application-bundle Last Used: 2023-11-04 23:22:10 +0000 ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ✅ Metadata contains required items _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "Gmail.app" kMDItemAlternateNames = ( "Gmail.app" ) kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier = "com.google.Chrome.app.fmgjjmmmlfnkbppncabfkddbjimcfncm" kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2023-08-18 03:49:51 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2023-08-18 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2023-08-18 03:49:51 +0000 kMDItemContentType = "com.apple.application-bundle" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "com.apple.application-bundle", "com.apple.application", "public.executable", "com.apple.localizable-name-bundle", "com.apple.bundle", "public.directory", "public.item", "com.apple.package" ) kMDItemCopyright = "" kMDItemDateAdded = 2023-08-18 03:49:51 +0000 kMDItemDescription = "" kMDItemDisplayName = "Gmail" kMDItemDocumentIdentifier = 0 kMDItemExecutableArchitectures = ( arm64, "x86_64" ) kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2023-08-18 03:49:51 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2023-08-18 03:49:51 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null) kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 1 kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null) kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "Gmail.app" kMDItemFSNodeCount = 1 kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 1605168 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2023-11-04 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemKeywords = "" kMDItemKind = "Application" kMDItemLastUsedDate = 2023-11-04 23:22:10 +0000 kMDItemLastUsedDate_Ranking = 2023-11-04 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemLogicalSize = 1605168 kMDItemPhysicalSize = 1622016 kMDItemUseCount = 9 kMDItemUsedDates = ( "2023-08-18 04:00:00 +0000", "2023-08-26 04:00:00 +0000", "2023-09-23 04:00:00 +0000", "2023-09-30 04:00:00 +0000", "2023-10-02 04:00:00 +0000", "2023-10-22 04:00:00 +0000", "2023-10-29 04:00:00 +0000", "2023-11-04 04:00:00 +0000" ) kMDItemVersion = "" ----------------------------------------------------------- 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/louis/Applications/Chrome Apps.localized/Gmail.app" ) ----------------------------------------------------------- ❌ Troubleshooting failed Link to comment
Andrew Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 On 11/5/2023 at 4:45 PM, sleuth said: Is there a performance cost to having the scope set to the full disk? There is no performance cost, but you may find more noise if your file search results. You could try using Alfred's default search scope and specifically also adding: /System/Volumes/Data/Users/louis/Applications/Chrome Apps.localized/ The metadata index can sometimes be a bit finicky when it comes to scope, now that macOS has virtual partitioning of data and volumes. Cheers, Andrew sleuth 1 Link to comment
bigblind Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 (edited) I'm having a similar issue, but am not getting any issues when dragging Youtube Music into the troubleshooting tool: Starting Diagnostics... File: 'YouTube Music.app' Path: '/Users/frederikcreemers/Applications/Chrome Apps.localized' ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file cache database... ✅ File cache integrity is ok ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if file is readable... ✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file. ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if volume '/' is indexed by macOS... ✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive ----------------------------------------------------------- Check direct file metadata... ✅ Direct metadata available Display Name: YouTube Music Other Names: YouTube Music.app Content Type: com.apple.application-bundle Last Used: 2024-02-19 11:52:14 +0000 ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ✅ Metadata contains required items _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "YouTube Music.app" kMDItemAlternateNames = ( "YouTube Music.app" ) kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier = "com.google.Chrome.app.cinhimbnkkaeohfgghhklpknlkffjgod" kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2024-02-08 14:02:58 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2024-02-08 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2024-02-08 14:02:58 +0000 kMDItemContentType = "com.apple.application-bundle" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "com.apple.application-bundle", "com.apple.application", "public.executable", "com.apple.localizable-name-bundle", "com.apple.bundle", "public.directory", "public.item", "com.apple.package" ) kMDItemCopyright = "" kMDItemDateAdded = 2024-02-08 14:02:58 +0000 kMDItemDescription = "" kMDItemDisplayName = "YouTube Music" kMDItemDocumentIdentifier = 0 kMDItemExecutableArchitectures = ( arm64, "x86_64" ) kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2024-02-08 14:02:58 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2024-02-08 14:02:58 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null) kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 1 kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null) kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "YouTube Music.app" kMDItemFSNodeCount = 1 kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 1437063 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2024-02-19 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemKeywords = "" kMDItemKind = "Application" kMDItemLastUsedDate = 2024-02-19 11:52:14 +0000 kMDItemLastUsedDate_Ranking = 2024-02-19 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemLogicalSize = 1437063 kMDItemPhysicalSize = 1449984 kMDItemUseCount = 4 kMDItemUsedDates = ( "2024-02-07 23:00:00 +0000", "2024-02-12 23:00:00 +0000", "2024-02-18 23:00:00 +0000" ) kMDItemVersion = "" ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file is in search scope... ✅ File exists within Alfred's default search scope ----------------------------------------------------------- ✅ Troubleshooting passed Search settings: And yet when I search for "Youtu: Edited February 21 by bigblind Link to comment
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