Alfred toggle won't work on startup

[dwilt4rville]

Ever since updating to v2.7.2 (407), Alfred's shortcut key for me (cmd+space) will not work when I restart. I haven't updated my OS (10.10.5) in months or changed anything - it's been working perfectly since then. It happened immediately after updating Alref to the latest. I'm able to reproduce it every time I restart. When my macbook pro restarts, Alfred starts up like normal but I can't toggle the search input open by hitting cmd+space. I have to quit Alfred, restart it, and THEN the toggle will work. I've checked my keyboard shortcuts and cmd+space is turned off for Spotlight.

[Vero]

Ever since updating to v2.7.2 (407), Alfred's shortcut key for me (cmd+space) will not work when I restart. I haven't updated my OS (10.10.5) in months or changed anything - it's been working perfectly since then. It happened immediately after updating Alref to the latest. I'm able to reproduce it every time I restart. When my macbook pro restarts, Alfred starts up like normal but I can't toggle the search input open by hitting cmd+space. I have to quit Alfred, restart it, and THEN the toggle will work. I've checked my keyboard shortcuts and cmd+space is turned off for Spotlight.

 

This will be resolved if you update to the 2.7.3 pre-release, which you can download by launching Alfred's preferences to the Update tab and choosing "pre-release" at the bottom.

 

Cheers,

Vero

[dwilt4rville]

Ok,thanks!

[AltoidLover]

Any estimate on when the release version of 2.7.3 is going to happen? And thanks for the work around (other than stopping and restarting Alfred 2).

[Andrew]

Any estimate on when the release version of 2.7.3 is going to happen? And thanks for the work around (other than stopping and restarting Alfred 2).

 

I'm not sure, but likely next week some time

[huwi]

Hi, i use the current version 2.8.1 (425) and i have exact the same problem since a longer time. The shortcut CMD-Space is forgotten after each restart of Alfred and resetted back to ALT-SPACE.

 

I can re-set it manual to CMD-SPACE and this works, but only until the next restart.

 

(Your tutorial https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/cmd-space/i have followed.)

 

What i can to?

 

Best regards

Michael

[Vero]

Hi, i use the current version 2.8.1 (425) and i have exact the same problem since a longer time. The shortcut CMD-Space is forgotten after each restart of Alfred and resetted back to ALT-SPACE.

 

I can re-set it manual to CMD-SPACE and this works, but only until the next restart.

 

(Your tutorial https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/cmd-space/i have followed.)

 

What i can to?

 

Best regards

Michael

 

Hi Michael,

 

Your issue will be different to the one above; It seems your Alfred preferences are not persisting between restarts of your Mac. This can be caused by a corrupted preferences file, or OS X not allowing Alfred to write to disk because of permissions issue.

 

Take a look at this page for details on persisting preferences, and don't hesitate to ask if you need further help

 

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/preferences/

 

Cheers,

Vero

[karenjs]

Hello - I've been having the same problem for a couple months now, since updating to the latest release of 4. When I restart, the Alfred hotkey resets to default (there is no other key-combo occupying the one I want to use). I reset it and it persists until another restart. I have pasted in the terminal comments from here (https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/preferences/) and I keep getting No Such File or Directory. I've double-checked my username, double-checked that I've quit Alfred, etc. 

I do sync settings (Dropbox) and share with my desktop computer which doesn't have the problem off those same settings. 

What else can I try? Thanks. Alfred 4.6.6 (1303) with powerpack. 

[Vero]

1 hour ago, karenjs said:

I do sync settings (Dropbox)

 

Make sure that you've disabled Smart Sync on the folder with your preferences - this ensures that Dropbox doesn't remove the local files to save space on your Mac. This is usually the issue when the preferences seem to disappear.

[karenjs]

Thanks - SmartSync isn't enabled and the other settings (custom workflows) sync fine with my second computer - I originate custom workflows on both computers and they sync fine to the other. It's just the hotkey on this one computer that won't persist through restarts. Any other ideas? 

[Vero]

@karenjs Could you please provide your Diagnostics file, which you can get by typing "?diagnostics" into Alfred? You can the email it to our info@ address, with a link to this thread please so that I can work out which conversation it relates to. I'll take a look and see what I can find out