politicus Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 (edited) When browsing files in Alfred, sometimes you end up in a situation like this: It became hard to select the right TextExpander backup file If Alfred could autoresize or do anything that would let me read my file names, that would be great. Edited November 8, 2016 by politicus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitor Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 A possible solution would be to behave like the Finder. While Alfred in this case is outright truncating the end, the Finder truncates the middle. The … stays somewhere between the visible start and end of the filename. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 I added the footer text some time back to cover this exact scenario. The issue is, some situations are better truncating the middle, some the end. Alfred shows both, truncated in the middle in the footer text: Cheers, Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
politicus Posted November 9, 2016 Author Share Posted November 9, 2016 @Andrew Nice! Plus, Quicklook (Cmd+Y) is a good solution to check the name of the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joonas Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 (edited) 22 hours ago, Andrew said: I added the footer text some time back to cover this exact scenario. The issue is, some situations are better truncating the middle, some the end. Alfred shows both, truncated in the middle in the footer text: Cheers, Andrew You can't see it when you're searching for files though... or at least I don't. This actually kind of ties in with my suggestion in a way. I was thinking about it and I realized that when you're searching for files, you can't see the preview.... or any of that info. If that were a thing, the problem I have described in my suggestion actually wouldn't be much of an issue ( in most cases ). Edited November 10, 2016 by joonas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FroZen_X Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 On 09/11/2016 at 6:20 PM, politicus said: @Andrew Nice! Plus, Quicklook (Cmd+Y) is a good solution to check the name of the file. Quicklook is only a good option if the files you wanna check are not huge as in layouts etc from stations. To see which file you actually search for you have to navigate through all the files when they have similar names to find the right one instead of seeing the one directly and then navigate quicker. My way of dealing with this is usually that i know some unique phrase to the filename and type "*phrase" so that i get the file i want. However i can't do this when i work with structures i haven't seen before or don't know :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikivi Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 (edited) Maybe it is best to start another topic for this, but I would really appreciate if the user could change cmd + Y hotkey for previewing items, I would really love to move it to cmd + k or cmd + l as they much more comfortably placed for me than cmd + y. Hope I am not alone in thinking this. Edited November 11, 2016 by nikivi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FroZen_X Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 20 hours ago, nikivi said: Maybe it is best to start another topic for this, but I would really appreciate if the user could change cmd + Y hotkey for previewing items, I would really love to move it to cmd + k or cmd + l as they much more comfortably placed for me than cmd + y. Hope I am not alone in thinking this. I preview items via "Shift". I use that all the times tho, pretty easy and got really used to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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