Nuno Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 Hello, I have bought Alfred yesterday and I am loving it, thanks to finally accessible Workflow Editor with Voiceover. However my problem is that the app doesn't show files on my external drive, even though Spotlight does. When I prefix my search with space and type the file name, it is not found on the external drive. How can I enable external drive indexing? Link to comment
vitor Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 Welcome @Nuno, See Troubleshooting File Indexing Issues, in particular to increase your search scope. Link to comment
Nuno Posted June 29, 2022 Author Share Posted June 29, 2022 Hello, I am very grateful for your reply. It all works now. Is there a way to automatically index new drives? Link to comment
vitor Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 External drives are mounted under /Volumes, so you can add that directly. Remember they’ll still need to be indexed by Spotlight, which for newly connected drives can take a while. Link to comment
SignurGian Posted August 24, 2022 Share Posted August 24, 2022 (edited) I have tried all mentioned solutions: widened the scope, reindexed spotlight, followed all troubleshooting guides concerning this subject. Nothing helped. Troubleshooting report in Alfred 5 is saying, that my files on the external drive exist within Alfred's scope, but the very same files are NEVER shown in a search with Alfred! Needless to say that Spotlight on the same computer shows all files. It's really frustrating. Below is the output of Alfred's own troubleshooting for a file called Fractal1.png. Alfred is not showing this file as a result if I search for it. I tried searching with a part of the name, with the whole name (uppercase/lowercase), with the prefix 'open', with spacebar... If I move the file to the internal drive it occurs in the results immediately. Alfred is ignoring it just on my external drive. How can I convince Alfred that he has to show me files on the external drive, too? Starting Diagnostics... File: 'Fractal1.png' Path: '/Volumes/Daten/Dropbox/Bilder/Fractals' ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file cache database... ✅ File cache integrity is ok ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if file is readable... ✅ Alfred has permissions to read this file. ----------------------------------------------------------- Check if volume '/Volumes/Daten/' is indexed by macOS... ✅ Indexing is enabled on this drive ----------------------------------------------------------- Check direct file metadata... ✅ Direct metadata available Display Name: Fractal1.png Other Names: Content Type: public.png Last Used: ----------------------------------------------------------- Check mdls file metadata... ✅ Metadata contains required items _kMDItemDisplayNameWithExtensions = "Fractal1.png" kMDItemBitsPerSample = 24 kMDItemColorSpace = "RGB" kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2012-12-22 07:17:02 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2012-12-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2012-12-22 07:17:02 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate_Ranking = 2012-12-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentType = "public.png" kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( "public.png", "public.image", "public.data", "public.item", "public.content" ) kMDItemDateAdded = 2022-02-07 15:36:30 +0000 kMDItemDateAdded_Ranking = 2022-02-07 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemDisplayName = "Fractal1.png" kMDItemDocumentIdentifier = 0 kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2012-12-22 07:17:02 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2012-12-22 07:17:02 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null) kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0 kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null) kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "Fractal1.png" kMDItemFSNodeCount = (null) kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 99 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 99 kMDItemFSSize = 798188 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" kMDItemHasAlphaChannel = 0 kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking = 2012-12-22 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemKind = "PNG-Bild" kMDItemLogicalSize = 798188 kMDItemOrientation = 0 kMDItemPhysicalSize = 798720 kMDItemPixelCount = 360000 kMDItemPixelHeight = 450 kMDItemPixelWidth = 800 kMDItemProfileName = "Adobe RGB (1998)" ----------------------------------------------------------- Check file is in search scope... ✅ File exists within Alfred's default search scope ----------------------------------------------------------- ✅ Troubleshooting passed Edited August 24, 2022 by SignurGian Link to comment
SignurGian Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 I finally found a solution for my problem: I withdraw full disk access from Alfred, restarted the app, and then granted full disk access, again. This somehow put something in the right place. Alfred is now showing all files within its search scope. Link to comment
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