Cannot "find"/"open" files in home directory

[pavel.sakun]

Cannot "open"/"find" files located in home folder (in ~ itself, not in one of it's subduers which is working fine). Both mdfind and spotlight shows the files.

 

Alfred 2.0.3, OS X 10.8.2

[Andrew]

Cannot "open"/"find" files located in home folder (in ~ itself, not in one of it's subduers which is working fine). Both mdfind and spotlight shows the files.

 

Alfred 2.0.3, OS X 10.8.2

 

 

This is because Alfred doesn't include the home folder itself, only the folders in home. This allows Alfred to exclude the ~/Library folder which is full of things you don't really need to see in Alfred by default.

 

If you move these folders into a subfolder (better practice as it's not really normal to put files directly into your home folder), then Alfred will find them fine. Alternatively, you could add ~ into Alfred's search scope.

[pavel.sakun]

Thank you Andrew, it helped. I thought that if something needs to be excluded it should be excluded explicitly, ~/Library in this case and not ~ and ~/Library. "Include folders in Home excluding ~/Library" option gave me wrong feeling of excluding just ~/Library as well.