New Smart Folder in iPhoto

I am trying to set up a new smart folder in iPhoto to collect all my video clips. I have followed the instructions but there is no 'Movie' word for me to select in my drop down menu list of words. How do I add this word? Currently there is a random list of words contained - no idea how they have arrived in the list.

Are you using the smart rule "Photo is ...."?
It should look like this:

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Smart folder in iphoto to burn folder on desktop

Hi.
I set up a smart folder in IPHOTO (collecting all photo's taken on a vacation) and have set up a burn folder on the desktop.
I can't figure out how to get the smart folder to the burn folder. It won't move from within Iphoto or via the finder.
Is what I want to do possible in Tiger and Iphoto?
I have a new Macbook.
thanks in advance.

If by :burn to the desktop: you mean copy, then no. You have to either select all and drag to a folder on the desktop or use the File->Export->File Export menu route.
If you want to burn directly to a disk with those images then click on the smart album and use the File->Export->File Export menu route but this time selecting the blank mounted disk on the desktop as the final destination.
Do you Twango?

If I create a smart folder in iPhoto, and then delete it, are the pictures gone?

I am still trying to figure iPhoto out. I just created a "Smart Folder" and it imported some of my photos. I decided to delete that folder. Did that delete the pictures or are they still somewhere else in iPhoto or on my computer? Thanks!

several issues with your question
1 - there is no such thing as a smart folder in iPhoto
2 - folders in iPhoto can not hold photos and it is not possile to import photos into them
3 - there are smart albums - deleting a smart album has no effect on the photos - the "contents" of the smart album are simply pointers to the photos in your library that meet the criteria - deleting the album has no effect on the photos themselves
4 - as the contents of a smart album is the photos that meets the criteria it is no possible to import photo into a smart album
5 - it is helpful to know what version of iPhoto you have
So please ask with correct terms since we can not see you or your computer and can only help based on wha tyou tell us
LN

Smart Folder Bug: Iphoto fails to match using 'filename' filter

Hi, this issue has popped up here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6008267
and here:
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22401
though I've yet to find an answer.
Briefly, the problem:
When using a smart album with a 'filename' filter, iphoto fails to produce a match when it should. Interestingly, I have some of my photo's included from their current location (simply a folder structure on my mac) and others imported directly into iphoto, so are directly in the library. Now, those photo's that are included from their current location are correctly indexed, and the smart folder provides correct matches (e.g. all filenames that contain '.jpg'). However, none of the photo's that reside in iphoto's own library are present with the example filter above.
I'm not sure how much this topic has been bashed, but this is definitely an iphoto issue, and an irritating one! (Yep, I've rebuilt the library too)
Thoughts?

Tom
Thoughts?
Here's one:
I have some of my photo's included from their current location (simply a folder structure on my mac) and others imported directly into iphoto, so are directly in the library.
Running a mixed library, where iPhoto is managing some of the files and you are managing the others, is a recipe for data loss. When there's complexity in managing the data, mistakes will occur.
That said: this could be a damaged db file.
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

I created a new smart folder within my mail box.

Now, how do I move messages from the in box to this new folder?

When you created the "Smart Folder" you must have put in some kind of search criteria, like the sender is part of a particular group in your addressbook, or the subject of an email contains a certain word.
Name the Smart Folder for it's purpose and let it do it's job of finding incoming emails with the proper conditions.

Enhancement request; Address book unfiled Smart folder, like iPhoto

I could not seem to create a Smart Folder to contain any address cards not filed in another folder, just like iPhoto.
Can this be done? If not, please consider this an enhancement request for the Leapord Address book. It should be an easy addition.
Thank you!

Just for clarity, this is a user-to-user forum, so there is no point in asking Apple for anything here. If you want to make suggestions to Apple use OS X Feedback.
I don't use iPhoto, so can't comment on the comparison, but in Address Book all contacts are stored in the AddressBook.data file. For convenience you can put contacts into groups (which I think is what you mean by folders) but it doesn't in any way change where (or how) the contact is stored. Indeed, a single contact can be a member of many groups - you can see which groups a contact is assigned to by selecting it and pressing the alt key.
To come to your particular issue, there is no handy way of in Address book of seeing which contacts are not assigned to groups, but it can be easily done with Applescript - there is one posted in this thread.
AK

Creating unnamed faces smart folder

Since updating the photos app on my Mac I've lost the ability to create a smart folder for faces that are unnamed.
I've tried Faces>is >
I've tried Faces>is> unnamed
Ive tried Faces > includes > unnamed
I've tried Faces > includes >
Nothing seems to work with the new version of iPhoto ( it did on the old version)
Has anyone got a solution ?

Spotlight can search for a color label but you must make that an active search criterion. Open a new Smart Folder in the Finder. Click on the + button to the right of the Save button. From the drop down menu that displays "Kind" select Other. Scroll down the list until you find the "File label" entry and then check the box to the right of the item. Click Close button. Now you should see the drop down menu has the "File label" selection followed by the color options. Select the "Green" color.
Now, Spotlight will find files with a green label, but it may not display folders with the green label. I've not tested that. If it does not locate folders with a green label, then you will need to set the color of the files in the green labeled folders to the green label.

Smart folder sorting?

I have long relied on smart folders to help me find the largest files on my hard drive, letting me save space when necessary... however, I can't seem to find any size-sorting option on Smart Folders this time around (when it was really easy to find in OS X 10.4). I can sort in regular folders by size, but not in Smart Folders... anyone figure this out?

Two options:
1) Click Cmd+F. This will create a search. With the little drop down menu on the left (might start with "Kind") select "Other". A window pops up and you can select "Size" (if you use this a lot, select the tick box on the right that says "In Menu"). Then set your size and Spotlight will find it for you. Then, once the search is running/ran, click on the "Save" button, and it will save to your Saved Searches in your sidebar (which I think is a cool addition)
2) Similar to the first... Press OptCmdN (or select New Smart Folder from the File menu) just like before. In the toolbar, there should be a little gear (if not, add it to the toolbar by going to the View menu and selecting Customize Toolbar). Click on the gear and then on the option "Show Search Criteria". Repeat the second half of option 1 above and TA-DA!, you have yourself a new smart folder.

Populating Smart Folder - Bug?

There seems to have been a change in the way smart folders are populated in Snow Leopard. I like to keep a smart folder called "All Today". It is a great troubleshooting tool. For example, there is currently a Snow Leopard bug in using your mouse to select Expose "Show Desktop". With this smart folder, I can change the Expose settings and quickly see that com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist is the possible problem file.
Unfortunately, Snow Leopard is not populating an realtime smart folder very elegantly. One has to open the smart folder, show search criteria, and toggle search locations to properly populate the folder.
For example, here is an "All Today" search criteria:
Create a new Smart Folder w/ search conditions as follows:
Kind = Any
System Files = Are Included
(Option+) ANY of the following are TRUE
- Last Opened Date = Today
- Last Modified Date = Today
Save the folder
Close finder and open the folder. You will see that the folder is not properly populated. Now, open "Show Search Criteria" and toggle Search location at the top. Now correctly populated. It is a nuisance to have to drop down the menu to show the search criteria and then toggle. This was not the case in Leopard.
Can anyone think of a work around?

Hi all,
I've a similar issue. If you create a smart folder with time based criteria it won't get populated correctly.
Say you have a criteria "last opened" in "one week"
It works as soon as you create the folder but if you open a file after the smart folder was created the new file won't be seen in the smart folder.
Cheers,
Marco

How to create smart folder in Lion

Hi,
I was using Smart folders a lot in Snow Leopard. For example I have Movie folder and lot of movies in it. The movie I haven't seen yet are labeled as red and there is smart folder, which shows me just the red (unseen) folders.
However the smart folder doesn't work in Lion. So I deleted them and wanted to create new one. However when I create new Smart folder it can search just "This Mac" or "jakudo" (my account) or "Shared", I cannot set the "Movie" folder. How should I do that? Or is there some new way how to do that in Lion?

Smart Folders seem to be getting smarter Something like this maybe?
Select 'Kind is Folder' first, then narrow it down to Movie in the Search box to add a smart tag. Next Hit the + sign and set further filters as required.
I've only played with this briefly but it might be what you're looking for?
Regards,
Colin R.

Smart folder doesn't include all the files it should

I'm trying to set up a smart folder to show all .graffle (OmniGraffle) documents on my Mac modified within the last 7 days, but no matter what I do, there are many that don't show up.
Even if I just set up a simple query to show all .graffle files, it only shows me a few. There are whole directories it seems to overlook, but these directories aren't special in any way that I can think of. They just exist alongside the directories that ARE being indexed.
If I move the files into the other directory, they show up.
Any ideas?

The simple query I'm working with is just to search "This Mac" for the string "graffle" appearing in the File Name
It just seems to be certain OmniGraffle files that don't show up, Lots of older graffle files do show up; these are all in a particular directory. The ones that I've attached to email messages show up (as being in my "mail" directory). It's just the ones I've created in the last 6 months or so - all for one particular project and located in the same directory - that don't show up.
Just now I did a test where I created 2 new files and saved them to different places. One in the problem directory and one in a different directory, and I couldn't duplicate the issue. I made a new smart folder, and both files showed up. This leads me to believe it's an issue with specific files, not a directory.
So I did a test where I opened one of the problem docs. I made one minor edit and closed the doc. Then I made a new smart folder, and it showed up.
Finally, I did a test where I opened up one of the problem docs and immediately closed it. Then I made a new smart folder, and it still did not show up.
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Spotlight comments search and smart folder fails

Spotlight search of the "Spotlight Comments" field fails after a file is saved in TextEdit or iWork programs.
I reproduced this failure, 100% of the time, in OS X 10.8 and 10.8.1 (with iCloud enabled or with it iCloud disabled) and can not reproduce this failure in Mac OS X 10.7.x
The steps to reproduce are simple and quick:
Create a new test file in TextEdit and Save it on the Mac (saved as, for example, test.rtf)
Quit TextEdit
In the Get Info panel for the test.rtf file and enter some unique text in the Spotlight Comments: field, for example XYZZY:
In Finder create a new Smart Folder (File > New Smart Folder)
Create a search criteria in the Spotlight comment field for the unique text from step 3 (XYZZY in this example) and hit Save and name the Smart FolderNote, the test.rtf file immediately appears in the smart folder
Open the test.rtf with TextEdit and change the text and Save the file.
Note, as soon as you hit Save in TextEdit the test.rtf file disapears from the SmartFolder. This is the error. Also note, the Spotlight Comment value (in this example, the text XYZZY) is unchanged, it still exists.
See attached screen shot after step 7 that shows the smart folder no longer shows the text.rtf file even though the search criteria is met.
I have reproduced this error with TextEdit and Pages and Numbers but not with other applications that are not iCloud enabled.

Clendenen02 wrote:
where should I run the code? in the terminal, or an applescript, or should put it in xcode and run it from there or the terminal.
What MrHoffman said.
But if it's easier, you can wrap it in Automator and have Automator ask for the Folders: (Test on a sample of your files before running on all 700 files)
(do you really own 700 movies??)
The Workflow is:
Put this in the Run Shell Script Action (and pass input as arguments":
PicDir=$1
MovDir=$2
for f in $PicDir/*
do
     if [ ! -d "$f" -a "${f##*.}" = "jpeg" ]; then
          comment=$(mdls -raw -name kMDItemFinderComment "$f")
          if [[ $comment != "(null)" ]]; then
               picname=${f##*/}
               movname=${picname%.*}.m4v
               if [[ -e "$MovDir"/$movname ]]; then
osascript <<-EOF
tell application "Finder"
set comment of file (POSIX file "$MovDir/$movname") to "$comment"
end tell
EOF
               fi
          fi
     fi
done
(BTW, I know that this is a bit of sloppy scripting (wraping an osascript in a Bash Script wrapped in Automator, but it does what you need)

Smart Folder that shows the biggest folders?

Hi all,
I want to know which folders on my harddrive are the biggest in size.
Thus, I made a new smart folder with the criteria
Kind = Folders and
Size Greater than 200 MB
The result is empty.
There are, however, folders that contain 200 MB and more on my harddisk which can be proven easily by activating the "Calculate all size" option in the View options (Command-J).
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Stefan.

The problem is that when you select the Size option, what is REALLY being used is a metadata attribute called "kMDItemFSSize"--which seems to refer to File Size, an attribute of files, but not a metadata attribute that is listed for folders. There is no clue that it doesn't apply to folders, but it doesn't. You could probably make an Automator action to do what you want, but WhatSize probably does it better any way.
Francine
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Smart Folder search options

When I create a new Smart Folder, the only search options available are "This Mac" & "Documents" (no option for the "Home" folder as described in Help).
This may be OK, except that the smart folders I have created are to find the most recently accessed spreadsheets, Word documents, powerpoints by type (one folder for each). When I set up the Smart Folder they work well if i specify "This Mac" (as not all the relevant docs are in the directory structure, I may have some on my desktop for example).
But, when I reopen the Smart Folder later, I do not see all my recently accessed files, I see some other selection.
So I have to open 'search options'. The options have changed to "This Mac" & "Recent WORD.saved search" (the name I have given the smart folder), with the latter selected. I then have to click on "This Mac" and the search refreshes correctly. Even though i subsequently save again with "This Mac" selected, it reverts to "Recent Word.saved search" when I look the next time.
This used to work the way I wanted and displayed the files I wanted when first opened. The change may be either a) because of changes in Snow Leopard; or b) because I now have shared computers and drives sometimes available and I wonder if these cause the saved search not to like "This Mac" option in case some of the directories are not available...just a thought.
Any ideas if I am doing something wrong or is there a bug?

Phew. I just figured this out. I had the opposite problem that you have. All my searches were restricted to my home folder. The answer is that the default search location when you select "New Smart Folder" is set by the default location for a new Finder window. Yours must be set to "Documents".
You don't have to select "New Smart Folder", though. You can open the folder or drive you want to search and then start typing in the search criteria field in the upper right to start a search restricted to that folder or drive.
Confusing behavior. That top bar for the location of the search should be editable.

Smart Folder - date calculation

Hi,
I was hoping to create a smart folder search to find all podcasts that are older than 2months old (so that I can copy them to an external HD)
The finder interface does not allow me to set a rule such as creation date > 2 months ago. Instead I have to hard code the date.
What is the best way to achieve this?
Cheers,
BM

I played with this a little. You could try the "intuitive" method of setting up a line like this,
creation date is within last 2 months
but I think that would probably "hard-code" the interval starting with the date that the smart folder was created.
If that doesn't create a look-back interval that always starts with the current date, then try the following instead:
From a command-F search window (or an option-command-N "New Smart Folder" window), click the little "plus" circle on the far right to set up a new search criteria. Click on the new line's left popup button to change it, and choose "Other..". In the list that follows, choose "Raw Query" and click OK. In the blank entry field for Raw Query, copy-paste the following line:
kMDItemContentCreationDate > $time.today(-62)
The "62" represents the number of days to look back, starting from the current day.
Use the plus button to add new lines for any other search criteria that you might want, and then finally click "save" to save the search.
Edit:
Ah - I had misread your post, and now see you wanted to find items older than 2 months ago. To do this, use the following line instead of the one above:
kMDItemContentCreationDate < $time.today(-62)
Message was edited by: jsd2

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