Organize Safari Download Folder (Smart Folders)
Alright, I have been organizing my computer and I was wondering if there was a way to organize my download folder with smart folders. If a song I download or place into my download folder, I want to be automatically organized into this smart folder labeled, "Music." Is this possible? But I don't want to include all my music located on my hard drive. Just the music located in my Download Folder.
Open the downloads folder in Finder
choose File-Find (Command F)
where it says 'search' at the top, select 'downloads' rather than 'this mac'
Set the 'kind' to 'music'
hit the save button & save it inside the downloads folder (or anywhere), with whatever name you choose.
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set downloadsPath to "/POSIX/path/of/destination/folder"
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I will go back to ver. 4
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