Oh very cool, Gary. I didn't understand what a Smart Folder was until I watched you very informative tutorial. Thank you very much for all the practical guidance you give all of us new and experienced Mac users. Much appreciated.
Exactly, this is a hidden gem! Seems like a well-hidden secret! I've been using Apple macOS for ages and didn't know about such an essential option! It's crazy that Apple does not educate its users with tutorials about these powerful and so-needed features!
Never used smart folders. I thought that they’d move files from folders into the smart one, which I really didn’t want to do. Now I see that they are really saved searches yielding active links. What have I been missing. Inspiring ideas as ever. Brilliantly presented. I’m off now to get started making some on my Mac ❤🎉 Thanks (again !!!) You are the best.
That would leave the Smart Folder behind, which really isn't an issue since you'd rarely look in your Saved Searches folder for it to bother you. But if you want, you can Control+click the sidebar item, use the Show In Enclosing Folder to go to the Saved Searches folder (or wherever you saved it) and then delete it there.
I didn't even know the possibility of option-clicking the „plus“ exists. This is sooo helpful, I have been looking for a way to do these more specific types of searches forever. You are amazing, thank you!
Exactly! I've been using Apple macOS for ages and didn't know about such an essential option! It's crazy that Apple does not educate its users with tutorials about these powerful and so-needed features!
@@macmost Thanks for the quick response. Actually, after writing my question, I found a way to do it. Now I have a folder on the Finder sidebar, containing 5 smart folders. Really convenient. I just copied the 5 smart folders in Saved Searches into a folder in a convenient location (probably could be anywhere but I put them in the ICloud root directory) and then dragged the folder onto the sidebar.
Very useful and detailed video. Can you help me with this? We have a shared drive from a Windows PC server, and after adding that server to my Mac, when I create Smart Folders and search pdf. It does not show any results. I believe I am not catching the correct search criteria to search from Windows Shared Server. Please help me with this 😞 .
Some great ideas, thanks! need to explore if this could be used to efficiently tag photos. Btw, the option-clicking on the plus sign is definitely discoverability problem, not sure if it's accessible either.
You can't. Smart Folders (and Finder searches) have a single location and everything under that location is searched. If the files in that subfolder have another common element you can work with that (something in the name, extension, etc) or you can apply a tag to all of those files and use that to exclude them from the Smart Folder.
Thanks! I have been wanting a recent folder shortcut. Now I have one. This video demystified Smart Folders. Now I'm shocked with how powerful it can be.
Great video. Thank you. Question. Is a Smart Folder a repository? Meaning… does it move my folder from its original location and places it in the Smart Folder?
No, not at all. Nothing is "in" a Smart Folder because it isn't a location. From the beginning of this video: "Smart Folders are a way to setup something that looks like a folder but it's actually conducting a search every time you view it. In fact these are also called Saved Searches. "
Hi Gary thanks for an useful video. Is it possible to exclude folders from searchresult, since its files i'm looking for I dont need both the file and the folder in which it reside to come up in the result
Not sure what you are asking here. When viewing search results in the Finder you will see a list of files. The folder is not shown in the list with each file.
Hi Gary! You are so easy to understand but on this one with so many steps I will have to watch it a few times before I get the hang of it. I'm a slow learner sometimes. Thanks for doing what you do! I count on you alot.
Very informative! The large files criteria will help me to keep storage low. Smart folders is one of my favorite features. I use a Smart Folder search to gather custom tags to gather my current project files. I then plop those smart folders on my dock (which is otherwise empty of all other apps & files, save for trash and open apps). I create a dummy application with automator that gets tagged and serves as the docked smart folder's cover. Took awhile to set up, but my productivity has skyrocketed since doing this last year!
I have set up a smart folder in my sidebar which I use a lot. In my documents folder search for documents created within the last 7 days, edited within the last 14 days or has the tag of Pinned. Pinned is for those I know I will have to return to but not sure when. To drop it from this folder, remove the tag.
I was never really aware of this option. Thanks - Am I missing something, or can you only search on the internal drives? I'd like to search across attached external drives. Hope I can get some guidance on this as an option.
You can search across your drives. Just make sure you start at the top level of your Mac or in the drive you want to search. But also, make sure those drives are formatted for Mac.
Do you mean change the icon? You can just do that without any app. Make your own folder graphics (or download some) and copy and paste into the Info window. th-cam.com/video/ykubMRVZofw/w-d-xo.html
I have seen most of your videos in the last few years. I am copying the chapter lists so I can tag them later. Do you have a list of all your videos with creation list? I know some things have changed over the years. I want to organize by the latest. Thanks.
@@macmost I mean the icons at the top of the finder window. I couldn’t see one when I tried to customise it, but I wondered if I could make a shortcut?
@@martinhanson3528 For creating Smart Folders? No, I guess there isn't a button for that. But you can easily do it with Command+F as the Find interface has the Save button right there.
I'm wondering what the best utility is for these smart folders, as they seem to be much better than standard folders and I think this would be a good way to organise your files and find duplicates. I am wondering though, do the smart folders actually store a copy of the files, or just a link within the smart folder. So if I used spotlight, would 3 versions show up like smart folder, folder, icloud drive?
Smart Folders seem very clever and cool, but I'm still looking for a more practical use case for them. I feel that I organize my files well from the start so there's not a lot of need for these features. I want to learn something amazing, but might have to settle for this being a Solution looking for a Problem.
I’m using smart folders for basically managing all my files on icloud , I rarely use the normal folders, I have smart folders for all my files by different criterias like Authors, publishers,subjects,priorities,Type . It’s faster than Tags . Tags sometimes will just stop working for me but smart folders get updated automatically. And I was wondering like how the hell I do more than on criteria at a time so thx Gary ur vids also hep me . One issue I have on my iphone or ipad I can’t open these smart folder , it’s just displayed as files and without the purple color and I can not open them , plz help😢.
Thank you! In my attempt to keep my files organized I've struggled to decide how to organize my graphic design files....content or application. I can do both! This will save me much time.
This is great, but you might have mentioned that the (quote) folder contains search results as "pointers", not copies of the actual files. Keep up the good work!
Should've explained the advanced raw query which enables you to search same parameters in different folders, circumventing the need to save multiple smart folders.
Since this is exactly what I would like to do... I googled "Advanced raw query on a Mac" and didn't find anything, how about a tip on how to use this feature?
Hi Gary. Not sure if you can suggest. Any reason in MacOS Sonoma, there is no any info about file resolution, or any other metadata. Even though that info was checked in the View Options. Thank you.
Without your newsy emails, I'd be less productive on my Mac! Thanks Gary! I have confused me, however. I have told my Smart Folder to search on ANY: date created, or modified or added within past 5 days, but I am getting MANY results that are months old! What have I missed? PS: My Smart Folder opens to several folders. When I click on a folder, I see many very old files, not the ones I expect to see that I've touched in the past 5 days. Maybe buried in those busy folders is a file that matches criteria? I sure don't want to go browsing to find it, though! UPDATE: My problem was related to: the 1st line of my search had the search criteria of ANY, which apparently brought in system files. I deleted the Smart Folder, re-did and the ANY doesn't appear and the search works fine. Wondering how that ANY got in there..... I can't replicate it. Is there a way to specify a slightly more complex search using OR and AND?
I just wanted to say, that I am very-very greatful to you, because I 've learned so much from you, considering all of your videos. Again, thank very-very much, ⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐
Sure. You can just include more complex boolean logic. I show some examples of that here. So you can include Pages documents, but not ones that are older than 90 days, for instance.
Storage is in blocks. Say a block is 4096 bytes. If a file has a physical size of 5000 bytes, then it needs 2 blocks of storage. So its logical size is 8192.
One frustration is that only Finder understands smart folders. For example, if I navigate to a smart folder from Photos's Import command or Microsoft Word's Open command , smart folders are grayed out. Is there a way to convince applications (besides Finder) to work with smart folders? (I understand it makes no sense to create a file in a smart folder but it makes sense to access an existing file in a smart folder.)
Not sure what you mean. If I have a Smart Folder in the sidebar and I try to do something like Import in Photos, I can select the Smart Folder in the Import dialog just fine.
@@macmost You're right - Photos recognizes Smart Folders in the sidebar but if you navigate Photos Import to the actual location of the Smart Folder, the Smart Folder is grayed out.
@@donlibes I think there is nothing in that smart-folder other than "information", refernces, pathstructure e.g. that is not visible like an alias. Is Smart Folder a folder? Servus
You've reminded me of a real macOS annoyance. Why is "Recents" in Finder broken? It is woefully out of date and inaccurate. Mine is months out of date. My 3 most recently opened files are only one a day ago, and the next two are from February. Next 2 are January then it jumps to last year. Frequently it fails to show me a file that is actually open right in from of me in an App.
I've run into this issue too on both Mac and in Files on iPhone/iPad. I long for the days when Finder was intuitive and useful. Ever since they got rid of my beloved Coverflow it feels like its been downhill. Don't get me started on how Apple defaults to hiding many search results forcing you to "show all", making it impossible to quickly track down files you know you have.
Very interesting Gary. I am trying to figure out how to incorporate smart folders with my desktop "madness". Of course desktop already has a feature, STACKS, that sorts file types into stacks of similar file types. I also try to keep stuff that I want quick reference to in folders on my desktop, but within another folder called "desktop quick" so that the desktop itself is not so cluttered with tons of folders. Of course the potential problem with doing this is using up hard disk space. I do have an external drive that I use for time machine, but that has a partition for files just like this that I have already moved from my main hard disk.
I don't find the function is not in file extension or file format. For example I what to find all files containing "beer" in the name, except the .xml one
The first line should be: name contains "beer." Then Option+click the three-dots button and add "none" of the following are true. Then under that should be name contains ".xml"
Excellent information. I use the search a lot, but I should save the results more frequently. By the way, for future reference, "criteria" is plural. Its singular is "criterion."
40 years of using Macs and never done this! As usual an excellent, content and presentation wise, video. Thanks.
So much useful information, if you own a Mac, you need to visit here often. Great work Gary, you are the best Mac resource on TH-cam.
Oh very cool, Gary. I didn't understand what a Smart Folder was until I watched you very informative tutorial. Thank you very much for all the practical guidance you give all of us new and experienced Mac users. Much appreciated.
I've been using the same feature for iTunes for years. It's so nice having a Most Played, Long Songs, Most Recent etc. playlist set up with ease.
Amazing, using Mac for decades and didn't know any of these features and combinations. Thanks for sharing!
using Macs since 2012, I had no clue these were searches, never used this before, I added saved searches folder to finder side bar
GREAT job !! Now I understand smart folders !!
the "option/click" on the plus button was just what I needed! Now my search folders are incredibly useful! Thank you.
Exactly, this is a hidden gem! Seems like a well-hidden secret! I've been using Apple macOS for ages and didn't know about such an essential option! It's crazy that Apple does not educate its users with tutorials about these powerful and so-needed features!
Most informative. Thank you.
This Saved search is a Blessing, I always have problems finding files I have been working on
You, my friend are an absolute legend 👍
Never used smart folders.
I thought that they’d move files from folders into the smart one, which I really didn’t want to do. Now I see that they are really saved searches yielding active links.
What have I been missing.
Inspiring ideas as ever.
Brilliantly presented.
I’m off now to get started making some on my Mac ❤🎉
Thanks (again !!!)
You are the best.
Hi Gary, Thanks a lot again. How can we delete a smart folder ? Removing it from side bar is good enough?
That would leave the Smart Folder behind, which really isn't an issue since you'd rarely look in your Saved Searches folder for it to bother you. But if you want, you can Control+click the sidebar item, use the Show In Enclosing Folder to go to the Saved Searches folder (or wherever you saved it) and then delete it there.
I didn't even know the possibility of option-clicking the „plus“ exists. This is sooo helpful, I have been looking for a way to do these more specific types of searches forever. You are amazing, thank you!
Exactly! I've been using Apple macOS for ages and didn't know about such an essential option! It's crazy that Apple does not educate its users with tutorials about these powerful and so-needed features!
Really useful Gary. Many thanks. If I have created several smart folders, can I group them on the sidebar in a single folder?
The Finder sidebar? No, you can't create groups like that there.
@@macmost Thanks for the quick response. Actually, after writing my question, I found a way to do it. Now I have a folder on the Finder sidebar, containing 5 smart folders. Really convenient. I just copied the 5 smart folders in Saved Searches into a folder in a convenient location (probably could be anywhere but I put them in the ICloud root directory) and then dragged the folder onto the sidebar.
Very useful and detailed video. Can you help me with this? We have a shared drive from a Windows PC server, and after adding that server to my Mac, when I create Smart Folders and search pdf. It does not show any results. I believe I am not catching the correct search criteria to search from Windows Shared Server. Please help me with this 😞 .
I don't think you'll be able to do that using a Windows server.
@@macmost thank for quick reply. Even it doesn’t show any search file in finder search bar. Pls give me a solution.
@@zubairkhan7461 I can't investigate a solution for you because I don't use a Windows server, sorry.
Okay thanks Gary @@macmost
Thanks Gary! I've been an Apple user for almost 30 years, but you still teach me new things.
For someone coming from Windows, your tutorials on how one can improve her productive are a great help, Gary. Thank you.
Some great ideas, thanks! need to explore if this could be used to efficiently tag photos. Btw, the option-clicking on the plus sign is definitely discoverability problem, not sure if it's accessible either.
I need a similar video for smart folders in Apple Mail. Have you done that one ? ....I've tried to figure it out but no dice .
Hey Gary!
Could you please explain how to exclude subfolder when creating smart folder? Thank you!
You can't. Smart Folders (and Finder searches) have a single location and everything under that location is searched. If the files in that subfolder have another common element you can work with that (something in the name, extension, etc) or you can apply a tag to all of those files and use that to exclude them from the Smart Folder.
Been using it for years. Very interesting, that you need to press alt to show more options though.
I’ve watched every Trek series and episode and this is it’s finest franchise.
As usual great stuff. I use Smart Folders but never knew about all the other options under other. Thank you!
Thanks! I have been wanting a recent folder shortcut. Now I have one.
This video demystified Smart Folders. Now I'm shocked with how powerful it can be.
Question if you are done with the Smart Folder can you just delete the Smart Folder and the contents won’t get deleted?
Right. The contents aren't IN the Smart Folder.
So useful! Amazing video as usual. Always looking forward to them as a new-ish mac user.
Great video. Thank you. Question. Is a Smart Folder a repository? Meaning… does it move my folder from its original location and places it in the Smart Folder?
No, not at all. Nothing is "in" a Smart Folder because it isn't a location. From the beginning of this video: "Smart Folders are a way to setup something that looks like a folder but it's actually conducting a search every time you view it. In fact these are also called Saved Searches. "
@@macmost Thank you. Yes, I recall hearing that... but wanted to make sure I was not going to scramble my organization.
Hi Gary thanks for an useful video. Is it possible to exclude folders from searchresult, since its files i'm looking for I dont need both the file and the folder in which it reside to come up in the result
Not sure what you are asking here. When viewing search results in the Finder you will see a list of files. The folder is not shown in the list with each file.
Hi Gary! You are so easy to understand but on this one with so many steps I will have to watch it a few times before I get the hang of it. I'm a slow learner sometimes. Thanks for doing what you do! I count on you alot.
Thank you, Gary. This was such a useful video.
aqui é minha referência, simplesmente assistirei a todos os vídeos. Thank you so much!
Very informative! The large files criteria will help me to keep storage low.
Smart folders is one of my favorite features. I use a Smart Folder search to gather custom tags to gather my current project files. I then plop those smart folders on my dock (which is otherwise empty of all other apps & files, save for trash and open apps). I create a dummy application with automator that gets tagged and serves as the docked smart folder's cover. Took awhile to set up, but my productivity has skyrocketed since doing this last year!
I have set up a smart folder in my sidebar which I use a lot. In my documents folder search for documents created within the last 7 days, edited within the last 14 days or has the tag of Pinned. Pinned is for those I know I will have to return to but not sure when. To drop it from this folder, remove the tag.
Your videos are impressive and helpful. Thank you so much.
Came here for "Smart Folders" . But learnt what is the essence of Mac OS itself !
I was never really aware of this option. Thanks - Am I missing something, or can you only search on the internal drives? I'd like to search across attached external drives. Hope I can get some guidance on this as an option.
You can search across your drives. Just make sure you start at the top level of your Mac or in the drive you want to search. But also, make sure those drives are formatted for Mac.
This is fricking amazing! Thank you!
Thanks very much, Gary, for this super useful video! The search capabilities in Finder never cease to amaze me,
Thank You very much, Gary!
The My Apps tip was genius!
Folderol app stopped working awhile ago and I am looking for a replacement app or way to color folders. Do you have any solutions?
Do you mean change the icon? You can just do that without any app. Make your own folder graphics (or download some) and copy and paste into the Info window. th-cam.com/video/ykubMRVZofw/w-d-xo.html
Really great content! thanks
Finally, I now know about smart folders. Thanks.
Thank you as always Gary! very helpful
I have seen most of your videos in the last few years. I am copying the chapter lists so I can tag them later. Do you have a list of all your videos with creation list? I know some things have changed over the years. I want to organize by the latest. Thanks.
If you go to my site, it is basically a big list of all of my videos. You can find them by date or topic. macmost.com
Really useful content. Thanks.
Epic, epic stuff here man. Thank you for this!!
Thank you, Garry.
Is there a shortcut to create a Smart Folder or a way to customize the toolbar to include a Smart Folder icon instead of going through the menu items.
Not sure what you are asking. Which Toolbar do you mean?
@@macmost I mean the icons at the top of the finder window. I couldn’t see one when I tried to customise it, but I wondered if I could make a shortcut?
@@martinhanson3528 For creating Smart Folders? No, I guess there isn't a button for that. But you can easily do it with Command+F as the Find interface has the Save button right there.
@@macmost Great, I’ll give it a try thanks.
Wonderful!! Thanks!
I'm wondering what the best utility is for these smart folders, as they seem to be much better than standard folders and I think this would be a good way to organise your files and find duplicates. I am wondering though, do the smart folders actually store a copy of the files, or just a link within the smart folder.
So if I used spotlight, would 3 versions show up like smart folder, folder, icloud drive?
Smart Folders are just "saved searches." The files aren't IN the Smart Folders. Nothing is. Only the actual file in its actual location exists.
It´s a good idea of database behind all indexing spotlight does.
Or filtering a huge Excel sheet.
Servus
Thank you.
Thanks a lot man
I loved your content but I notice something,
5:52 how come 7.4 MB file shows on larger than 10 MB filter?
Not sure, sorry. Spotlight index bug?
Excellent advice
whoa! Do many really know what a smart folder is let along how they work. Now we do. Thnx.
A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary!👏❤️
Very helpful 🙏
Mmmmm... very clever!!!! Thanks.
Excellent!
Wonderful !!
Smart Folders seem very clever and cool, but I'm still looking for a more practical use case for them. I feel that I organize my files well from the start so there's not a lot of need for these features. I want to learn something amazing, but might have to settle for this being a Solution looking for a Problem.
How to see Video Clip Dimention in finder?
File, Get Info.
Mac user since May 1984, I discover this feature 👍
You just knew where things were at all times.
Servus
very intriguing
Thanks bunches
Your videos are truly the best, Gary. Thank you so much.
Did the >10M search at around 6:20 show a 7.5M .key file in the search result?
I’m using smart folders for basically managing all my files on icloud , I rarely use the normal folders, I have smart folders for all my files by different criterias like Authors, publishers,subjects,priorities,Type . It’s faster than Tags . Tags sometimes will just stop working for me but smart folders get updated automatically. And I was wondering like how the hell I do more than on criteria at a time so thx Gary ur vids also hep me . One issue I have on my iphone or ipad I can’t open these smart folder , it’s just displayed as files and without the purple color and I can not open them , plz help😢.
Yes, Smart Folders are for Macs only.
Thank you! In my attempt to keep my files organized I've struggled to decide how to organize my graphic design files....content or application. I can do both! This will save me much time.
Excellent
Awesome!
This is great, but you might have mentioned that the (quote) folder contains search results as "pointers", not copies of the actual files. Keep up the good work!
Should've explained the advanced raw query which enables you to search same parameters in different folders, circumventing the need to save multiple smart folders.
Since this is exactly what I would like to do... I googled "Advanced raw query on a Mac" and didn't find anything, how about a tip on how to use this feature?
I’m not sure if this is what you need, but Gary had made this video some time ago : th-cam.com/video/mxUeqBJ6dtw/w-d-xo.html
@@ebutuoy6701 Thanks, I'll check it out!
Hi Gary. Not sure if you can suggest. Any reason in MacOS Sonoma, there is no any info about file resolution, or any other metadata. Even though that info was checked in the View Options. Thank you.
Not sure what you are asking. Are you trying to look at the metadata of an image file? Open it in Preview and use Tools, Show Inspector.
No. When in Finder, under preview option when file is selected. Before, all that Metadata was visible. But now, it it's not.
@@vladislavtolmachev2767 Sorry, not sure what you are dealing with there. Hard to guess what is wrong without seeing the whole situation.
th-cam.com/video/R9mvocaMFYE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ICYMfLDDGHc_42o0
Just to explain better. Link is attached. Thank you again.
Without your newsy emails, I'd be less productive on my Mac! Thanks Gary! I have confused me, however. I have told my Smart Folder to search on ANY: date created, or modified or added within past 5 days, but I am getting MANY results that are months old! What have I missed?
PS: My Smart Folder opens to several folders. When I click on a folder, I see many very old files, not the ones I expect to see that I've touched in the past 5 days. Maybe buried in those busy folders is a file that matches criteria? I sure don't want to go browsing to find it, though!
UPDATE: My problem was related to: the 1st line of my search had the search criteria of ANY, which apparently brought in system files. I deleted the Smart Folder, re-did and the ANY doesn't appear and the search works fine. Wondering how that ANY got in there..... I can't replicate it. Is there a way to specify a slightly more complex search using OR and AND?
I just wanted to say, that I am very-very greatful to you, because I 've learned so much from you, considering all of your videos. Again, thank very-very much, ⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐
I have so happy I found your videos. If I need to know something I try you first. I have learned to use more of the options on my mac❤
Thanks from a new apple user
How would I create a SMART FILE that pulls various documents/files from GOOGLE DRIVE.
Should work the same way as long as you can see those files on your Mac's drive in the Finder.
With SmartFolders it's apparently not possible to exclude files from the search, or is it?
Sure. You can just include more complex boolean logic. I show some examples of that here. So you can include Pages documents, but not ones that are older than 90 days, for instance.
Re: File size - What's the difference between physical size and logical size?
Storage is in blocks. Say a block is 4096 bytes. If a file has a physical size of 5000 bytes, then it needs 2 blocks of storage. So its logical size is 8192.
@@macmost I knew that for fifteen minutes 35 years ago!
BRAVO
One frustration is that only Finder understands smart folders. For example, if I navigate to a smart folder from Photos's Import command or Microsoft Word's Open command , smart folders are grayed out. Is there a way to convince applications (besides Finder) to work with smart folders? (I understand it makes no sense to create a file in a smart folder but it makes sense to access an existing file in a smart folder.)
Not sure what you mean. If I have a Smart Folder in the sidebar and I try to do something like Import in Photos, I can select the Smart Folder in the Import dialog just fine.
@@macmost You're right - Photos recognizes Smart Folders in the sidebar but if you navigate Photos Import to the actual location of the Smart Folder, the Smart Folder is grayed out.
@@donlibes I think there is nothing in that smart-folder other than "information", refernces, pathstructure e.g. that is not visible like an alias.
Is Smart Folder a folder?
Servus
You've reminded me of a real macOS annoyance.
Why is "Recents" in Finder broken?
It is woefully out of date and inaccurate. Mine is months out of date. My 3 most recently opened files are only one a day ago, and the next two are from February. Next 2 are January then it jumps to last year.
Frequently it fails to show me a file that is actually open right in from of me in an App.
I've run into this issue too on both Mac and in Files on iPhone/iPad. I long for the days when Finder was intuitive and useful. Ever since they got rid of my beloved Coverflow it feels like its been downhill. Don't get me started on how Apple defaults to hiding many search results forcing you to "show all", making it impossible to quickly track down files you know you have.
Thanks Gary! Will start using this feature now. Never realised Smart Folders is so useful.
Excellent video!!
Every time I watch your videos I learn something new. Thank you!!
Weird that your 7M keynote file was included in the list of files greater than 10M.
You have so much knowledge. I’m excited to look at this feature. Thank you.
Great information, as usual. Thanks, Gary. Is there a way to update old pages files? Or, does that matter.
Just open them in the current Pages.
Very interesting Gary. I am trying to figure out how to incorporate smart folders with my desktop "madness". Of course desktop already has a feature, STACKS, that sorts file types into stacks of similar file types. I also try to keep stuff that I want quick reference to in folders on my desktop, but within another folder called "desktop quick" so that the desktop itself is not so cluttered with tons of folders. Of course the potential problem with doing this is using up hard disk space. I do have an external drive that I use for time machine, but that has a partition for files just like this that I have already moved from my main hard disk.
I don't find the function is not in file extension or file format. For example I what to find all files containing "beer" in the name, except the .xml one
The first line should be: name contains "beer."
Then Option+click the three-dots button and add "none" of the following are true.
Then under that should be name contains ".xml"
Do you personally use any smart folders? Are smart folders searchable by spotlight or Alfred?
Excellent information. I use the search a lot, but I should save the results more frequently. By the way, for future reference, "criteria" is plural. Its singular is "criterion."
Excellent tutorial. Very useful information. Many thanks!
Wow.
Such a powerful tool, which I never used so far☺️
Really, really helpful, Gary! Thank you!
Cool