"Show Note Error -1743: Not authorized to send Apple events to Notes

[Jimmbo]

Downloaded v3.6.2 and installed (for use with Alfred v5.5 in MacOS 14.5).

I was not asked to authorize. I initiated this Alfred search: n aviadores

I got spinning cursor (but with good results). I canceled the operation, and was shown the system pop-up below:

Manually checking authorizations, Alfred was ok for Full Disk Access and Accessibility. In Automation, Notes was toggled off for Alfred. I toggled it on, repeated my operation with Alfred Search Notes, and got the same error. Returned to the pref pane and found that Notes had toggled off! So I toggled it on again, claused/re-opened sys prefs, confirmed it was still toggled on, repeated my operation with Alfred Search Notes, got the same error, and discovered that Notes had once again toggled off.

[sballin]

Weird! Have you tried restarting your computer?

[Jimmbo]

Ha, yes.

[sballin]

hmm, I can't think of anything short of creating a new user and seeing if it goes away :/

[Jimmbo]

Can you please tell me how to do a thorough uninstall so I can try a reinstall?

[sballin]

Should be completely removed when you delete it from Alfred

[Jimmbo]

Just fwiw....I uninstalled, rebooted, checked and double checked toggle of Privacy & Security>Automation>Alfred 5>Notes, and it was toggled on. I installed the plug in, tried to search, and got the following pop-up (my toggling before installation seemed to eliminate the previous, simpler pop-up).

Returning to prefs, Alfred>Notes has untoggled.

Like last time, the plug-in is searching correctly; the only problem is when I try to open the Notes page

(update: I just tried another Notes search, and after getting and retiring the pop-up, the Alfred search box hung. Could not even edit the entered search term.

[sballin]

do you have some anti-virus type apps running?

you could try testing the note showing function in Script Editor:

tell application "Notes"
    set noteid to id of third note in default account
    show note id noteid
end tell

[Jimmbo]

No anti-virus apps.

Testing your script:

1. First trial with Privacy&Security>Automation>Alfred>Notes toggled off. Result showed a Notes panel without content
2. Second trial, with the pref toggled on. It worked correctly, and the pref did not automatically toggle off. I did however get this in Script Editor: note id "x-coredata://99CD7EA2-EFBF-4ED5-800E-F05DB72E13BB/ICNote/p75926" of application "Notes"

Should I create a new user account and try again?

[sballin]

You could try changing the third line to show note id noteid in default account, does that make it work?

Do you have a very large number of notes? Are you using iCloud/local notes or do you have something like Gmail notes as well?

[Jimmbo]

It worked (but so did previous), and reported the following in Script Editor:

note id "x-coredata://99CD7EA2-EFBF-4ED5-800E-F05DB72E13BB/ICNote/p75926" of application "Notes"

Do you have a very large number of notes?

Nope

Are you using iCloud/local notes or do you have something like Gmail notes as well?

iCloud/local, yes. Gmail, no. Nothing else weird with Notes that I can think of.

[sballin]

Hmm ok, I'm out of ideas other than trying it with a new account

[Jimmbo]

Add to the annals of "try unplugging it and plugging it in again": I created new user, the plugin tested fine. Logged back in as my normal user, and now it's working here, as well.

I got a pop-up asking for permission, which I don't remember seeing previously. But now I can use plug-in without getting that pop-up (or error pop-ups).

If only cold fusion could be this easy....

[sballin]

ha, works every time! Funny that it fixed it on the normal user too.