Marcin Bogdanowicz Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 After setting up a sync folder, I've lost all my settings and worse - every and each workflow! What to do, I still have a right copy of alfred.preferences, so hopefully there is some rescue procedure ... Link to comment
Andrew Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 As long as you still have a good copy of the Alfred.alfredpreferences, it should be easy to get all of your settings and workflows back. @Marcin Bogdanowicz can you confirm which version of Alfred you are using? Your Powerpack shows as v2, so the instructions will be slightly different. Cheers, Andrew Link to comment
Marcin Bogdanowicz Posted October 31, 2017 Author Share Posted October 31, 2017 45 minutes ago, Andrew said: As long as you still have a good copy of the Alfred.alfredpreferences, it should be easy to get all of your settings and workflows back. @Marcin Bogdanowicz can you confirm which version of Alfred you are using? Your Powerpack shows as v2, so the instructions will be slightly different. Cheers, Andrew That's right, it is v2. Link to comment
Andrew Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 @Marcin Bogdanowicz ok, great... here goes: 1. Quit Alfred 2 2. Copy the good version of Alfred.alfredpreferences into ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/ replacing the file of the same name (might be worth backing that one up too, just in case) 3. Open Terminal.app and paste: defaults delete com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-Preferences syncfolder 4. If no error is shown from this, start Alfred 2 Hope this helps! Link to comment
Marcin Bogdanowicz Posted November 1, 2017 Author Share Posted November 1, 2017 thanks a lot; it works perfectly. By the way, instead of copying one can just restore from time machine, which is what I ultimately did. Link to comment
Marcin Bogdanowicz Posted November 2, 2017 Author Share Posted November 2, 2017 (edited) There's still a problem though - how to backup those Alfred's settings and workflows without the Time Machine? And I'd rather not use the sync-folder method which has already failed me. If I was to use syncing a folder with some cloud, should I add to syncing only alfred.preferences or something else? (it seems that some workflows are missing after restoring nothing but one file) Edited November 2, 2017 by Marcin Bogdanowicz Link to comment
Andrew Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 @Marcin Bogdanowicz I don't recommend using syncing for backing up data (but if you insist, then I recommend Dropbox as the only reliable solution). All of your settings are stored within the Alfred.alfredpreferences file, so back that up however you like, manually or time machine will save these settings. Link to comment
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