Find Folder — Search by Folder Name Workflow

[samvlu 12]

Find Folder

Download here:

http://samvlu.com/download/Find_Folder.alfredworkflow.zip

 

Search by folder name.

Enjoy!!

Edited April 20, 2017 by samvlu

[peelman 4]

Find Folder

Download here

 

Search by folder name.

Enjoy!!

 

That doesn't solve what I was going for.  Searching for folders isn't a problem, alfred does a good job of that already.  Its searching non-spotlight indexed folders, just for the file names that it stumbles on.

 

Again, like a massive media library that lives on a NAS.  Regardless, my solution I posted above has been working well enough that I don't have to care any more.

[waffles_n 15]

ActuallyActually, I think this is a great idea. There are times when I'd like to be able to quickly restrict my search to folders to narrow the results. Thanks!

[samvlu 12]

Glad you like it waffles_n

 

=)

[alfredlee 0]

Hey this is so simple that it's great. Sometimes all I need is to look for a folder and not a list of other files.

 

Thanks samvlu!

[mjv 2]

I'm finding it very useful. Thanks. 

[dan_djorgi 5]

Simple yet useful – thanks for sharing! 

[jackperdue 0]

This is exactly what I've been wanting to do with Alfred (one of many). Thanks so much for sharing it.

[mixterdee 15]

Simple and effective, cheers

[samvlu 12]

Glad you like it.

[JoeyBloggs 1]

Really useful. Thanks for creating this Samvlu.

[anas 0]

I wanted to implement this for a while now, but kept putting it off. Didn't know it was this simple . Thanks!

[Starkiller 0]

Great! This is so useful! Thank you!

[Aadako 0]

Anyone else having trouble with the Find Folder workflow? I just noticed it wasn't working. It's so simple it makes me think it's an Alfred bug? Tried restarting Alfred, changing the keyword to something else and then back to "f"... and deleting the "public.folder" type and re-adding a folder to it. Nothing works. I also tried another workflow with the same functionality "Simple Folders Filter" Nada

 

I'm on macOS 10.14.4 and Alfred 4.04

[deanishe 1,186]

@Aadako: Please don't start new threads for problems with workflows. It clutters up the forum. Comment in the existing workflow thread where the author and other users will see it.

 

EDIT: I've merged the threads.

Edited October 11, 2019 by deanishe

[Andrew 681]

@Aadako I just tried replying to your email and your mailbox bounced it saying you're over quota.

 

The additional details you provided by email (with 'f' returning non folder results) suggests you have another keyword configured for 'f', so changing the keyword to something more distinct should have sorted the issue.

 

If you're still experiencing these issues, have you tried reindexing your Mac yet?

[Aadako 0]

Reindexing fixed it

 

[Acidham 50]

@samvlu: Is there a GIT for that workflow to make pull request...I added "Browse in Terminal" ... not a big thing but I tend to keep my version in sync with your version

[ioemilio 1]

Would it be possible to set it as the default Alfred quick search? I would like to search just for folders by pressing [spacebar] followed by my query.

I tried combinations of enabling/disabling quick file search mode with different workflow keywords but I did not succeed.