ClintonStrong Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I am also experiencing the same problems as CarlosNZ and Hollowm4n but my problems seem to be intermittent. Sometimes there will be no text under the AlfPT icon, other times I get a successful update notification underneath AlfPT with the workflow bundle id (if i remember correctly) listed with a message of success in front. A problem I am experiencing that I have not seen listed here is a very strange message in growl, screenshot attached, but notice the success response at the bottom... Probably an error on my end but just in case otherwise... I think that problem's happening when it tries to copy over directories in workflows. I think it's because it's using a simple copy function rather than a recursive copy (examples in the comments of the PHP manual). Here's a suggestion for downloading icons: maybe try running the downloader script in the background, and display results without icons if they aren't all downloaded yet. You may lose out on a bit of functionality your first time searching, but it's better than sitting there waiting until they're all downloaded. (You'll probably want to make it check if the script is already running in the background, and run it if it isn't.) Link to comment
phyllisstein Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Thanks to everyone who posted their pings. The slow response problem is caused by distance form my server. I am thinking about ways around this. If you're looking to set up mirrors, I'd be among the first to volunteer. Don't know how programmatically complex that would be, though. Link to comment
Fasand Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Just a heads up: on your website, you have "AlfTP ..." instead of "AlfPT ..." (switched letters T and P). Link to comment
simonbs Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 I'm getting the below error when trying to upload a workflow. I have tried three different workflows and all have a bundle ID set in Alfred. Am I doing something wrong? Please give your workflow a bundleid and re-upload Link to comment
phyllisstein Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Any chance we could have the size limit increased? Bundling requests and requests_cache has done wonders for my workflows' speed but not a damn bit of good for their bloat level. Link to comment
Cedrick Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 I'm also stuck on the "Updating icon cache" while pinging goes great. However the idea of this is amazing, can't believe Alfred's creators didn't think of adding this themselves. An "appstore" for workflows is fantastic. Some ideas; it would be great if you add "alfpt new" to list the newest workflows and "alfpt top x" to see the top downloaden workflows etc. Link to comment
CarlosNZ Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Couple of quick comments. First, there's a display issue when using Firefox. The login (and "upload") buttons don't show up. You can still click the spot where they're supposed to be though. How it looks in Firefox. How it should look (in Chrome). And secondly, any way to get stats of number of downloads? I assume this is already being logged somewhere; would be good to see how many downloads I'm getting. I can see my download numbers via CloudApp, would be interested to know whether more or less people are getting my workflows via this method. Cheers. Link to comment
bethany7 Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Hi, AlfPT was working great for me, up until yesterday. Now nothing at all loads, either under the update or the install commands. Even update -f gives no results. I thought maybe I just didn't have any updates, but I remembered that there is actually a message in the subtext that tells you this, which does not appear anymore. I have left it running for over five minutes, and still no change. I think I have the latest version - updated via link on first page; I have also just updated to latest Alfred beta. Any ideas?! Thanks - AlfPT is great! Link to comment
tomhunt Posted January 29, 2013 Author Share Posted January 29, 2013 Hi all I've purchased 500mb of webspace which I plan to move the repo over to. This should improve the general speed of accessing the repo. I'm also currently re-writing the icon caching code to download the files asynchronously which will further improve responsiveness. As far as increasing the filesize limit - what kind of size do you guys think you'll need? We've already got 102 workflows in the repo (most of which are tiny - in fact we're only using around 8mb in total). If people start shipping huge caches with their workflows this could run out fast. I've got my day job and an art project to work on as well as this at the moment so development will be a little slower than it has been. Please bear with me. Ta Florian, phyllisstein, mlgill and 1 other 4 Link to comment
phyllisstein Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 As far as increasing the filesize limit - what kind of size do you guys think you'll need? We've already got 102 workflows in the repo (most of which are tiny - in fact we're only using around 8mb in total). If people start shipping huge caches with their workflows this could run out fast. This was my silly request, but I've since realized that I wasn't clearing the .git folder from my workflows before zipping them. Their sizes, even with a couple of modules bundled, are under the limit now. So don't make this a priority on my account. A workflow that bundles the Requests module, the requests_cache module, and the BeautifulSoup module zips down to about 700kb, so there's even (a little) room to spare. Thanks so much for devoting so much time and energy to this! It's really a superb addition to Alfred. Link to comment
jordic Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 AlfPT stopped working they day before yesterday. The following message shows up in Console.app: 30-01-13 16:51:55,397 Alfred 2[19164]: [ERROR] Script XML Parse Error occured Error Domain=NSXMLParserErrorDomain Code=4 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 4.)" Any idea what's happening or how I can debug this? Link to comment
Enhorn Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Getting the same problem. :-/ Link to comment
CarlosNZ Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 FYI guys, robhor's Repo Workflow is working beautifully. I would recommend using that and let Tom concentrate on the backend. Enhorn 1 Link to comment
jordic Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 FYI guys, robhor's Repo Workflow is working beautifully. I would recommend using that and let Tom concentrate on the backend. I started using robhor's Repo Workflow right when it was made available, but I think that workflows posted on the repository should work for everyone. If not, they should be removed. I'm happy to help debugging and see if we can sort out why it's not working, but we need tomhunt's help for that. In any case; I really appreciate both robhor's and tomhunts hard work :-) e57415e2 1 Link to comment
twinpeaks Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 I agree jordic. It's only possible because of Tom's vision but robhor's workflow is much easier and quicker. They work great together. Unfortunately the repo is down right now, as of this post so neither one works... I am sure when there is a stable v2.0 there will be an official repo. If possible, Tom, can you give us permission/instructions to mirror your repo so we have backups online all the time in case of server failure? Such as what is occurring now? Anyway we can help? Link to comment
raguay.customct Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 I just came to this topic, but the dns for this repro is non-existant. We need an official repro area for Alfred V2. Is there one in the works? Link to comment
twinpeaks Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 We know. When v2 is released I am sure the Alfred team will contemplate if they want to have an "official" repo but most likely they will just have a site where people post/send them workflows. We are VERY lucky to have Tom's site. Let's not forget that. Robhor's extension just makes using Alfpt that much easier imo. Both are necessary... we could just have no repo? That would suck... Tom's main site is up so hopefully the repo part will be up soon. Goes to show how quickly it all can be pulled. Link to comment
twinpeaks Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Still down? Yes, just visit the site and you can tell, along with the script not working or the wonderful addition for alfpt by Robhor. If this link: http://alfredrepo.tom-hunt.co.uk - doesn't return anything... it's down. I really do not think it is coming online again so we just have to have patience or buy some hosting or use github... Might be a good idea to start a list of our own of every "known" workflow out there along with developer info if available. Link to comment
erist Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Did Tom say anything as to why it went offline? Link to comment
ctwise Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Looks like it's being transitioned - http://alfpt.com Ramshank and thec13 2 Link to comment
twinpeaks Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Thanks for the update ctwise. Did you stumble upon that webpage or did Tom give you some insight? Either way I am just glad to hear it is not dead as it was/is a fantastic idea. Link to comment
robhor Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Bad news, a whois lookup reveals that the domain is registered to "African Large Format Print Techn" Link to comment
phyllisstein Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 I agree jordic. It's only possible because of Tom's vision but robhor's workflow is much easier and quicker. They work great together. Unfortunately the repo is down right now, as of this post so neither one works... I am sure when there is a stable v2.0 there will be an official repo. If possible, Tom, can you give us permission/instructions to mirror your repo so we have backups online all the time in case of server failure? Such as what is occurring now? Anyway we can help? I think it would be great if we could set up a system of mirrors, and have offered my hosting space as a testing-ground before. This most recent outage has been a particularly extended one, though, as far as I can tell—I'm almost tempted to suggest that we start (groan) rebuilding from scratch. Link to comment
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