farris Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Hi all! When I'm searching for files (starting the query with a space or 'open'), I also get a lot of unnecessaryresults that are inside some application folders. For example Adobe-software will create a folder for each application in ~/Applications/ with inside of that the app itself,and quite some subfolders all filled with more subfolders and an enormous amount of miscellaneous files. I've long managed this by adding these subfolders to Spotlight's privacy tab. Is there a better way to solve this? Thanks for any help! Link to comment
Tyler Eich Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 (edited) I've long managed this by adding these subfolders to Spotlight's privacy tab. Is there a better way to solve this? You can add 'alfred:ignore' to the Spotlight comments (but you'll have to add this to every individual item you want to blacklist) Edited May 8, 2014 by Tyler Eich Link to comment
farris Posted May 8, 2014 Author Share Posted May 8, 2014 Hi Tyler, Thanks for your response. That is certainly a way to do it too. But in that case I think it's faster to just drag the folders into Spotlight's privacy tab, not? Link to comment
Tyler Eich Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Upon closer inspection, it appears there is no other way to ignore the contents of a folder than to add files to Spotlight's privacy settings. The v1 support page on blacklisting apps is still relevant for Alfred 2 Link to comment
farris Posted May 8, 2014 Author Share Posted May 8, 2014 Ah well, too bad. Thanks for helping out Tyler! Link to comment
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