ursbraem Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 I mostly use Alfred to navigate into project folders. Much less for file search. Since some time, the index fails to show me the folder I'm looking for, giving me files and contacts, but not my (often used!) project folder. An example: ALT SPACE myclientsproject -> I get contacts for clients that are on "myclientsproject", quotes, files, even preferences files that somehow contain that project name – but I don't get ~/Documents/myclientsproject I would like to tell Alfred to give preference to folders that match the search string. Is that possible? Or, as a workaround, can I just turn all the file searching off and have Alfred return only folders (besides contacts and apps, of course)? Link to comment
vitor Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Are you pressing the space bar before typing your search? Link to comment
ursbraem Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share Posted March 17, 2016 No, normally not. If I do, it shows more files and less folders Link to comment
Andrew Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 There is an example workflow from the + button in the workflow preferences which makes Alfred search for folders only - this may suit your needs Link to comment
ursbraem Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share Posted March 17, 2016 That's nice! Thanks Andrew! PS I just noticed I could also have simply unchecked everything except folders – but it's much better like that PPS: I have a client named "medi" and various folders named "medi" – Alfred gives me all kind of "media" folders and other stuff – but not the desired "medi". while spotlight shows the correct matches first. can I do sth there? Link to comment
Andrew Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 It surprises me that Alfred isn't showing it with higher priority if Spotlight shows it as first... is it within the search scope? If so, make sure "Touch folders after opening them" is selected in Alfred's Features > File Search > Advanced, then navigate to it in Alfred's file system navigation and open it from there. It should show up near the top in Alfred's default results after this. Link to comment
ursbraem Posted March 21, 2016 Author Share Posted March 21, 2016 "Touch folders after opening them" was already checked. But it might be that I never really use that folder, just it's children. After consciously opening it again, it appears, after the contacts. Still, for the search "medi" a contact named "Mediacenter" appears on top of the folder named "medi". The f command is perfect for me though, thanks! Link to comment
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