![]() LaunchBar 6 definitely addresses one of the issues I had with the previous version, which is that the command window is much larger, with bigger text, and is located near the middle of the screen rather than at the top under the menu bar. LaunchBar 6 was recently released, and since I apparently can’t leave well enough alone with some categories of software, I gave LaunchBar another try. When LaunchBar 5 came out, I spent a while trying it out again, but eventually went back to using Alfred 2. As I wrote about when LaunchBar 5 was released, I’ve used (at one time or another) almost every third-party launcher including Quicksilver, LaunchBar and Butler, but in recent years, I have settled in to using Alfred exclusively. Having to mouse around to launch applications or files (let alone all the other things that launchers let you accomplish) feels positively archaic once you have got used to relying on one. Here is the zip file where you can read the names of the results in the image.I know from bitter experience of using other people’s Macs that I find it very hard to use a computer without a launcher of some kind installed. Plus I can just right click and chose that I want that app to be the default for d without going elsewhere. I have purchased Lunchbar as well, alfred, spotlight, launchbar none of them seem to do this core behavior nearly as well as this free application. It had an update I updated it typed in dr and it was in the list, I launched it one more time with dr and after that it showed up in the first list with just typing in "d" that is the kind of behavior I love and makes me want to use applications like Quicksilver. I just opened Quicksilver which I haven't run for 2 or 3 months on my computer because it once about ever 3 weeks to a month opens every app when I type a search and would bring my computer to a halt. How would Alfred return results with drop of droplr using spotlight index but not with dr? Is there a different index it might be using? I will reindex and see what I get. Just curious and so I am better understanding how Alfred works, it sounds like it uses spotlight index to return results rather than creating its own. I have 26 results with Alfred and none of them are droplr even with the "dr" in the app comments. ![]() Strange Spotlight is showing droplr is showing up fine with typing dr (see attachment). This will ensure Alfred refreshes his application cache. In both instances, please type "reload" into Alfred when the indexing is completed. Launch Spotlight to its "Privacy" tab, drag Droplr in, wait a few seconds, remove it from the privacy tab, then give OS X a minute or two to reindex it. This can take up to an hour, but will refresh the full index on your Mac, or Perform a full reindex of your Mac if you find that you've encountered any other indexing issues by going to Alfred's Advanced preferences and follow the instructions when clicking the "Rebuild OS X Metadata" button. Second, if with the settings above, the app never shows in your results, it may not be indexed correctly by OS X, and is therefore not returned as a result to Alfred. Search for Droplr with "dr" Can you see it in results now? You can re-add the file types you need, but I'd recommend keeping your default results pretty clean, and using the "open" keyword (or pressing the spacebar as shortcut) to search broader file types. Start by taking a look at your Default Results and narrowing them to include these file types (or even temporarily exclude Folders if they're cluttering your results at this point) If the app appears when you type "droplr" in full or any part thereof, then the app CAN be found. I saw this post where you can make your own but I don't want to lock this in I am just doing this a bunch today and will not be what I want in a week from hinted at the two key possibilities to start from.įirst, the possibility that the app IS in your results but your results are overwhelmed with too many other results: Hopefully there is a setting I am missing still. I still have the same issue if I type drop I get droplr if I launch it several times with drop it would move up in the list to "dr" in Quicksilver but in Alfred it is no where to be found I went through the entire list it shows and it is not even listed! Doesn't seem like Alfred is quite as smart as Quicksilver in this regards. I just bought the powerpack to get this feature and it looks like it was already doing that and was checked without. Thanks for your reply, I missed the email that there was a reply and just came back searching for this. go to Alfred Preferences->Features->File Search->Navigation and activate Fuzzy matching. ![]() For Fuzzy matching like "Chrome" shows "Google Chrome" etc.
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