benjamin74 Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Hello guys, I recently upgraded to Yosemite and for some reason I didn't have this issue with Moutain Lion. Anyway here is the issue. I have excluded from SpotLight (using the Confidentiality tab) my VMWare Virtual Machines, but when I use alfred to search/launch "monitor" (to launch the activity monitor)... I still get lots of entries of programs hosted inside the Virtual Machines... http://screencast.com/t/fLwFpwoKf2Ed Any idea why is Alfred still showing this ? Isn't Alfred using Spotlight ? Cheers, Link to comment
Vero Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Hello guys, I recently upgraded to Yosemite and for some reason I didn't have this issue with Moutain Lion. Anyway here is the issue. I have excluded from SpotLight (using the Confidentiality tab) my VMWare Virtual Machines, but when I use alfred to search/launch "monitor" (to launch the activity monitor)... I still get lots of entries of programs hosted inside the Virtual Machines... http://screencast.com/t/fLwFpwoKf2Ed Any idea why is Alfred still showing this ? Isn't Alfred using Spotlight ? Cheers, Have you typed "reload" into Alfred? This will refresh the application cache, rather than wait for it to refresh by itself. Applications, unlike other file types, are cached to make search even faster. Let me know how you get on Link to comment
benjamin74 Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 Hi, I just did a "reload" (I didn't restart Alfred) but it stills display the Virtual Machines apps... Do you have another idea ? Cheers, Link to comment
Andrew Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Hi, I just did a "reload" (I didn't restart Alfred) but it stills display the Virtual Machines apps... Do you have another idea ? Cheers, If you could drag one of the VM apps into this tool and let me know the output: http://cachefly.alfredapp.com/tools/AlfredMetadataTool_v1.1.zip Cheers, Andrew Link to comment
benjamin74 Posted April 4, 2015 Author Share Posted April 4, 2015 Hi Andrew, Here is the output : /Users/BenjaminMini/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/WinXP2014.vmwarevmInternal File Metadata====================== Display Name: WinXP2014.vmwarevm Alt Names: File Type: com.vmware.vm-package Comments: Keywords: Last Used: 2015-03-29 14:18:27 +0000Raw mdls File Metadata======================kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2015-03-29 14:18:27 +0000kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2012-10-31 21:52:55 +0000kMDItemFSCreatorCode = ""kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = 0kMDItemFSInvisible = 0kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0kMDItemFSIsStationery = 0kMDItemFSLabel = 0kMDItemFSName = "WinXP2014.vmwarevm"kMDItemFSNodeCount = 37kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501kMDItemFSSize = 37kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" And as you can see it is still displayed when using Alfred when accessing the "Monitor" (activity monitor) : http://screencast.com/t/E1wyKfSDXo1 Cheers, Link to comment
Andrew Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Hi Andrew, Here is the output : /Users/BenjaminMini/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/WinXP2014.vmwarevm Internal File Metadata ====================== Display Name: WinXP2014.vmwarevm Alt Names: File Type: com.vmware.vm-package Comments: Keywords: Last Used: 2015-03-29 14:18:27 +0000 Raw mdls File Metadata ====================== kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2015-03-29 14:18:27 +0000 kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2012-10-31 21:52:55 +0000 kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0 kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = 0 kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0 kMDItemFSIsStationery = 0 kMDItemFSLabel = 0 kMDItemFSName = "WinXP2014.vmwarevm" kMDItemFSNodeCount = 37 kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 kMDItemFSSize = 37 kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" And as you can see it is still displayed when using Alfred when accessing the "Monitor" (activity monitor) : http://screencast.com/t/E1wyKfSDXo1 Cheers, Alfred shouldn't be listing com.vmware.vm-package in the default results... how do you have Alfred's default results setup under Features > Default Results for file types. Also, could I get a screenshot of the Spotlight Privacy prefs? Link to comment
benjamin74 Posted April 4, 2015 Author Share Posted April 4, 2015 Alfred Features > Default hasn't been modified I think (I just reinstalled it on Yosemite but I use my Moutain Lion Alfredapp settings as I didn't want to lose all my snippets) : http://screencast.com/t/RzkU3kNB7 Spotlight Pref panel shows "Machines Virtuelles" which is OSX automatic translation of the Virtual Machine's folder... http://screencast.com/t/z1vaJF9MrfzH Link to comment
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