solved Beginner: Alfred only searches Contacts, although Full Disk Access granted (M2, Monterey)

[Freda]

As it says in the title, Alfred 5 doesn't find any files on my Mac. The only hits it returns are from Contacts.

 

Apparently I have not set up permissions correctly.

 

I've tried to follow the instructions on this page:

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/getting-started/permissions/

 

When I rebooted my Mac for the third or fourth time, it even prompted me to explicitly grant permissions to Alfred for various directories.

 

What am I missing?

 

[Freda]

Okay ... I will follow this tutorial and see what happens:

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/indexing/monterey/

 

Meanwhile, I guess Spotlight will live on a little while longer.

[Freda]

I upgraded from Monterey 12.5 to 12.6, and that fixed the problem. Alfred finds files now! 😀