I wanted to adjust a trigger that I use in Preview. When I looked in BTT, Preview was not in the sidebar and the trigger was not listed under All Apps either.
I opened an export of my profile in a notepad and could see the trigger that I was using was supposed to be under the Preview App only and so I added the Preview app back and the trigger appeared.
My thought is there should be something that prevents you from removing an app or makes it so the app reappears if there are any triggers in the configuration file that require or are applied specifically to that app only.
That way you don't end up with orphaned triggers.
This one was easy to figure out because I use the heads up display when it is triggered so I searched the text file for the message that appears on my screen and also searched for Preview and could find this but if someone has a more obscure trigger that might not even be as clear what is triggering it and what it is doing and it doesn't show up in the list it could create problems.
BTW I included a piece of the config to show how it shows as being under the Preview app:
"BTTAppBundleIdentifier" : "com.apple.Preview",
"BTTAppName" : "Preview",
"BTTAppAutoInvertIcon" : 1,
"BTTAppProcessMatchMode" : 2,
"BTTAppProcessName" : "Preview",
"BTTTriggers" : [
{
"BTTActionCategory" : 0,
"BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1751473659.494904,
"BTTTriggerType" : 0,
"BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeKeyboardShortcut",
"BTTUUID" : "B40FDA1E-06D4-4E4A-8523-1F0CB341606F",
"BTTPredefinedActionType" : 124,
"BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Trigger Menu Bar Menu-Item",
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