Alfred Trouble Finding Long Filenames?

[tmykkanen]

Hello,

 

I'm having trouble getting Alfred to find lengthy filenames. I'm wondering if this is a limitation of OS X or Alfred or if I am doing something incorrect?

 

The filename looks like this (the # are actually letters, but I removed the name for this post):

 

201603312135-wog-church-planter-assessment-report-####-###########.pdf

 

Alfred will find the file as is if I search by 201603312135 for example, but will not find the file if I search for wog

 

Alfred will find the file searching wog if I first remove a couple of letters from the end of the filename. If I add the letters back, Alfred is again unable to find the file.

 

I can find the file using Finder search and searching with a Name contains wog search.

 

Any ideas on why Alfred may be behaving this way?

 

Thanks for the help!

[Vero]

Hello,

 

I'm having trouble getting Alfred to find lengthy filenames. I'm wondering if this is a limitation of OS X or Alfred or if I am doing something incorrect?

 

 

I've had a play with this by replicating your file name, and I can see that Spotlight stops presenting the file as well when it's a certain character length. Removing a few characters brings it back.

 

I've passed this on to Andrew, so that he can look at working around this Spotlight issue in a future update, as the file is still indexed by OS X behind the scenes.

 

In the meantime, you can either search for the file's enclosing folder, shorten the file name or, if you open the same file every time, create a keyword-to-open-file workflow

 

Cheers,

Vero

[tmykkanen]

I've had a play with this by replicating your file name, and I can see that Spotlight stops presenting the file as well when it's a certain character length. Removing a few characters brings it back.

 

I've passed this on to Andrew, so that he can look at working around this Spotlight issue in a future update, as the file is still indexed by OS X behind the scenes.

 

In the meantime, you can either search for the file's enclosing folder, shorten the file name or, if you open the same file every time, create a keyword-to-open-file workflow

 

Cheers,

Vero

 

 

 

Thank you for responding Vero! Good to know it's not just something weird on my system.

 

I discovered something else while playing around with it last night: if I replace the dashes with spaces, the file is discoverable by each word. Strange behavior, but I thought it might be helpful in diagnosing the problem.

 

-Tyler