

That is, with "p " as the keyword for the pdf filter and "f " as the filter for folders, none of the following suceed (I'm not typing the quotes into Alfred I've just put them here to be clear about where there are and are not spaces):īoth the pdf and folder workflows have worked for me without trouble for years they're about as simple as workflows get-just a "file filter" linked to an "open file" action. Similarly, I have a workflow set to filter to folders, and it doesn't find the immediately containing folder, nor does Alfred find that folder with or without a space at the front. I also have a workflow set to filter for pdfs, which also fails to locate this file. I know to put a space at the front, although I did also try without the space as part of trying to troubleshoot. Thanks very much! The computer in question is my office computer I'll send along the diagnostics email next time I'm there, but that won't be until next week. ✅ File exists within Alfred's default search scope KMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 00:00:00 +0000 KMDItemFSName = "combinators-and-classes.pdf" KMDItemDisplayName = "combinators-and-classes.pdf" KMDItemContentModificationDate_Ranking = 00:00:00 +0000 KMDItemContentModificationDate = 06:50:43 +0000 KMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 00:00:00 +0000 _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "combinators-and-classes.pdf" ✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file.Ĭheck if volume '/' is indexed by macOS.ĭisplay Name: combinators-and-classes.pdf Path: '/Users/drip0001/Dropbox/Pdf library/Scott, Dana' So I'm out of ideas here is there something else I can do to get Alfred working again? Or does it just not really work on Big Sur? I've searched and found a bunch of people with similar issues, but the steps I've tried seem to have worked for most of them. (Spotlight and mdfind find both the file and its containing folder without issue, both before and after the rebuild.) After the rebuild, on the other hand, Alfred finds neither the file nor the folder containing it.

Here's something else weird: before I rebuilt the macOS metadata, Alfred would find this file, but not the folder containing it.
#ALFRED 4 NOT FINDING FILES FULL#
The output from one of these troubleshooting runs is copied below: note that Alfred very much does *not* find this file, even if I type in its full name, despite its "all is well" output. I've gone through Alfred's "file search troubleshooting", and it gives me a lot of green checks and "Troubleshooting passed". mdfind locates them as well, without issue. I've rebuilt spotlight data, and spotlight finds the files and folders just fine. I updated from Alfred 3 to 4 to try to fix the issue, but it persisted. Since I updated to Big Sur, Alfred is not finding some files and folders.
