samdale67 Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Hi all, I just loaded macOS High Sierra public beta, and I'm observing that latest version of Alfred does not seem to be searching Safari bookmarks. macOS 10.13 Beta (17A291m) MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) Safari Version 11.0 (13604.1.25.3.3) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 @samdale67 Are you seeing the bookmarks in Spotlight? There is a good chance they have just not been indexed yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samdale67 Posted June 30, 2017 Author Share Posted June 30, 2017 Spotlight has indexed them per attached, yet Alfred is not seeing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRD Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Confirmed that Safari bookmarks are not being picked up with 10.13 Beta (17A291m) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 At this point, my macOS 10.13 test machine isn't indexing Safari bookmarks at all (i.e. Spotlight isn't seeing them). If macOS were to be indexing bookmarks, I suspect they may just be in a different location which needs to be added to Alfred's default search scope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRD Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Hi Andrew, I guess it could be a bug with the latest beta. We will see if it is resolved with beta 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRD Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 hi Andrew, Still not resolved in 10.13 Beta (17A306f) Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossbennett Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 My bookmarks are appearing in Spotlight results (High Sierra Beta 2), but there is no ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/ directory anymore. Just supports Andrew's hypothesis. But since my spotlight is finding them, I suspect it's safe to say that new location exists somewhere already, so I'm guessing a deliberate design choice rather than a bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRD Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Thanks for this. I am on 10.13 beta 3 and my bookmarks are showing in Spotlight. I will leave this to playout as the beta cycle progresses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossbennett Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 One more clue: IN the past 48 hours, there are some new items which have appeared in my ~/Library/Safari/ area. One is a directory called ~/Library/Safari/CloudBookmarksMigrationCoordinator/. In it is a /Logs/ subdirectory. And in MY installation, there's a file for today and a file for yesterday called "migrationEligibility_2017-07-13.log" (or -14.log). I won't post its contents, as there are a bunch of device UUIDS and such—but it appears there's a new entry for every machine restart in the form: <timestamp> Updating eligibility with 1 cloud tab devices <timestamp> Encountered non-migratable device (uuid=long string, lastModified=<timeDateUTCOffsetFormat> <timestamp> Not ready to migrate because non-migratable devices are present So…something's being moved. Just thinking: I wonder if this is prompted by the new file system update. (I've done this change on my MBP, but not on the production machine.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRD Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 Interesting stuff. Hopefully, Alfred will respond with a solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 @rossbennett interesting, thanks for posting! @HRD I still don't think there is anything for me to do right now other than keep an eye on this. I don't want to engineer a solution to work around a beta "work in progress" in High Sierra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRD Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 @Andrew Yep, I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRD Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 @Andrew As you are no doubt aware, the issue remains with 10.13 beta 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRD Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 @Andrew Nothing resolved with 10.13 beta 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRD Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 @Andrew Nothing resolved with 10.13 beta 6. Guess it could need an update at your end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Interestingly, I can now see bookmarks and history in 10.13 Spotlight, but still can't see any filesystem metadata which is what Alfred uses to show these bookmarks. I'm wondering if the underlying metadata has changed in type - if anybody can find the metadata files (which were in ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/ pre 10.13), then they get a pretend gold star! Either way, I've now created a ticket to look at manually loading the plist for the bookmarks in case this isn't rectified by Apple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRD Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 @Andrew Interesting stuff. I've had no luck finding the metadata files. Good luck in find a solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRD Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 @Andrew Just a nudge to enquire if there has been any progress with this issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 @HRD I'll be able to load the bookmarks manually in Alfred's next release. I'm going to lock this topic now as there is no need to continually bump it - I already have an internal ticket for this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Quick update on this: I've nearly finished a new feature for the next release in which Alfred indexes the bookmarks rather than using macOS metadata. This has allowed me to add in indexing for Google Chrome too, plus adding additional nice features such as searching via folder name, host name and title. I've also added the ability to open all bookmarks in the default browser, or the respective source browser. I have other things to do for this release, but it shouldn't be too long until this is in pre-release. I've unlocked this thread for comments, but please don't keep bumping it. Cheers, Andrew Jb_Bryant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 How does it handle multiple Chrome user profiles? I mean, does Alfred always load the bookmarks for the default profile, the active profile, all profiles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 @deanishe at this point of development, it's just loading default profile, but I've already planned multiple profile support. To save me a little time when I get to that, do you know where the list of all profiles, and current active profile is defined? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 No idea, I'm afraid. This workflow is profile aware. Might be worth a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRD Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 @Andrew Good work. I look forward to the pre-release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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