Alfred not finding Parallels files

[jdillon]

Hi,

 

I'm a new Alfred user and am really loving the program.

 

I'm on v. 2.1.1 and am having an issue with Alfred not finding files at two locations of my Parallels installation (the same files are turning up in Spotlight searches). I've added the two folders to the Search Scope list under Default Results, but to no avail.

 

I've also rebuilt my OS X metadata, but this hasn't helped either.

 

My OS is Mavericks (v. 10.9.1).

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

Edited February 11, 2014 by jdillon

[Andrew]

Hi,

 

I'm a new Alfred user and am really loving the program.

 

I'm on v. 2.1.1 and am having an issue with Alfred not finding files at two locations of my Parallels installation (the same files are turning up in Spotlight searches). I've added the two folders to the Search Scope list under Default Results, but to no avail.

 

I've also rebuilt my OS X metadata, but this hasn't helped either.

 

My OS is Mavericks (v. 10.9.1).

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

 

Glad you are enjoying Alfred

 

Could you please drag the file which isn't being found into this app and let me know the output

 

http://cachefly.alfredapp.com/tools/AlfredMetadataTool_v1.0.zip

 

Cheers,

Andrew

 

[moving to the help sub-forum]

[jdillon]

Glad you are enjoying Alfred

 

Could you please drag the file which isn't being found into this app and let me know the output

 

http://cachefly.alfredapp.com/tools/AlfredMetadataTool_v1.0.zip

 

Cheers,

Andrew

 

[moving to the help sub-forum]

Hi Andrew,

 

Many thanks for your reply.

 

Here are the results after I drag the file into the app:

/Volumes/C/Projects NXT/Current/Reine stemming/EXPORT/ENG/EN Icoon en muziek cd finale versie.docx

Unable to obtain metadata for this file!

Raw mdls File Metadata
======================

/Volumes/C/Projects NXT/Current/Reine stemming/EXPORT/ENG/EN Icoon en muziek cd finale versie.docx: could not find /Volumes/C/Projects NXT/Current/Reine stemming/EXPORT/ENG/EN Icoon en muziek cd finale versie.docx.

I get the same results with every document I drag into the app (except that the name of the file is different) from the two folders I've asked Alfred to search.

 

Thanks again!

Josh

[Andrew]

Hi Andrew,

 

Many thanks for your reply.

 

Here are the results after I drag the file into the app:

/Volumes/C/Projects NXT/Current/Reine stemming/EXPORT/ENG/EN Icoon en muziek cd finale versie.docx

Unable to obtain metadata for this file!

Raw mdls File Metadata
======================

/Volumes/C/Projects NXT/Current/Reine stemming/EXPORT/ENG/EN Icoon en muziek cd finale versie.docx: could not find /Volumes/C/Projects NXT/Current/Reine stemming/EXPORT/ENG/EN Icoon en muziek cd finale versie.docx.

I get the same results with every document I drag into the app (except that the name of the file is different) from the two folders I've asked Alfred to search.

 

Thanks again!

Josh

 

Is this a permanently connected volume?

 

Could you please open Terminal and type:

 

mdls "/Volumes/C/Projects NXT/Current/Reine stemming/EXPORT/ENG/EN Icoon en muziek cd finale versie.docx"

[jdillon]

Is this a permanently connected volume?

 

Could you please open Terminal and type:

 

mdls "/Volumes/C/Projects NXT/Current/Reine stemming/EXPORT/ENG/EN Icoon en muziek cd finale versie.docx"

 

AFAIK, the volume isn't connected when Parallels isn't running. It was running and connected (i.e. I can access the C drive from the Finder) when I entered this in Terminal. Here are the results:

Last login: Tue Feb 11 13:26:35 on ttys000
joshs-mbp:~ joshdillon$ mdls "/Volumes/C/Projects NXT/Current/Reine stemming/EXPORT/ENG/EN Icoon en muziek cd finale versie.docx"
/Volumes/C/Projects NXT/Current/Reine stemming/EXPORT/ENG/EN Icoon en muziek cd finale versie.docx: could not find /Volumes/C/Projects NXT/Current/Reine stemming/EXPORT/ENG/EN Icoon en muziek cd finale versie.docx.

But after doing some more testing, it looks like the Spotlight results are a bit hit and miss. Really sorry about that! It looks like the best solution is just for me to move these two directories to the Mac side so that Alfred has uninterrupted access to them. Apologies again, and many thanks.

[jdfwarrior]

AFAIK, the volume isn't connected when Parallels isn't running. It was running and connected (i.e. I can access the C drive from the Finder) when I entered this in Terminal. Here are the results:

Last login: Tue Feb 11 13:26:35 on ttys000
joshs-mbp:~ joshdillon$ mdls "/Volumes/C/Projects NXT/Current/Reine stemming/EXPORT/ENG/EN Icoon en muziek cd finale versie.docx"
/Volumes/C/Projects NXT/Current/Reine stemming/EXPORT/ENG/EN Icoon en muziek cd finale versie.docx: could not find /Volumes/C/Projects NXT/Current/Reine stemming/EXPORT/ENG/EN Icoon en muziek cd finale versie.docx.

But after doing some more testing, it looks like the Spotlight results are a bit hit and miss. Really sorry about that! It looks like the best solution is just for me to move these two directories to the Mac side so that Alfred has uninterrupted access to them. Apologies again, and many thanks.

 

Based on the nature of this volume (being a mount of a windows volume in Parallels) Spotlight more than likely isn't indexing this volume and that is more than likely the issue. Not sure if indexing could be enabled on this volume or not.