Alfred not finding Sente references

[rjleamaster]

Sente is a reference manager that includes a feature to have spotlight index the references. When I search for Sente references in spotlight, I get the appropriate results. For some reason, when I search the same thing in Alfred, the results are not found. I thought there was a bug with Sente, but that doesn't seem to be the case since the search works when I use spotlight. 

[Andrew]

Sente is a reference manager that includes a feature to have spotlight index the references. When I search for Sente references in spotlight, I get the appropriate results. For some reason, when I search the same thing in Alfred, the results are not found. I thought there was a bug with Sente, but that doesn't seem to be the case since the search works when I use spotlight. 

 

The exported spotlight metadata from Sente is probably in a folder within ~/Library - if you find where the Sente metadata is stored and add this folder to Alfred's Features > Default Scope, then Alfred will likely find them too.

 

[moving to help sub-forum as unlikely a bug in Alfred]

[rjleamaster]

Yeah. The metadata is stored in ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Sente 6. I added this to the search scope and even created a filter for this folder and Alfred is still not finding most of the references?

[Vero]

Yeah. The metadata is stored in ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Sente 6. I added this to the search scope and even created a filter for this folder and Alfred is still not finding most of the references?

 

You say that Alfred is not finding "most" of the references but is finding some? If it's finding some with the filter, this is a good start. Could you give examples of what is and isn't found?

 

Are you searching by content or title? If you're searching by content, try adding kMDItemTextContent in the File Filter's Advanced prefs. You may also want to check the box for "Show files marked as System Files" in the Search Scope tab.

 

It's a bit tricky to help you out as we're not familiar with Sente and the way it stores its data, but hopefully the above will help.

[rjleamaster]

Yeah it is finding some. But I can't find any type of pattern for why it is finding some references and not others.

 

For example, I searched an author name in Alfred and it did not find the reference. I searched it in spotlight and it did find the reference. When I search for the same reference by title, I still can't find it in Alfred, but can find it in spotlight. 

 

Another reference I searched for was found by title, but not by author. 

 

I tried adding the kMDItemTextContent in the search filter and ticking the "Show files marked as System Files", but it didn't seem to alter the search results.