Simple smart folder question

So this is what I want to do...
Every time a imagine (png, jpg, gif, whatever) gets placed on my desktop i want it to instead go to a smart folder on my desktop called "random images" or whatever. for the life of me i can't seem to figure out how to do this relatively simple thing. any help would be appreciated.

I have all my Internet applications set so that the things they download all go to the same folder, called Downloads, at the root level of my drive. Just as in Safari they all have preferences you can set about where you want their downloaded items to go. If you want to further sort things you'll need to investigate Applesript, write a folder action script that automatically puts downloaded images into a sub-folder, and then attach the folder action to the Downloads folder. Of course this might not work that great for a mail application....it could result in not seeing any attached images in the body of the email.
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Hello People,
I am trying to do something fairly basic with a Smart Folder but it's not working and I must be doing something wrong, here's the deal:
I have an email account called [email protected], where our software sends us error reports when the users says "report to developer". So I've got lots of error reports. (Well not that many, but I've got quite a lot)
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IS IN MAILBOX "XXXXX"
AND
ENTIRE MESSAGE -> DOES NOT CONTAIN "a string i'd like to place like this one".
In theory this seems easy, but in practice is not working. I seems as if the "Contains, Does Not Contain, Begins with, etc." is always behaving like "Contains".
I've placed a screnshot that shows exactly that. If you take a look at it, the message shown has exactly that string on the first line "while establishing a connection".
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/9180/errormailgk9.th.jpg
Could it be possible that "Entire Message" doesn't search message text?
Thanks

Austin Kinsella1 wrote:
Well, it is not just you - I have just tried a couple of smart mailboxes, and "does not contain" produces the same results as "contains". As far as I can see contains produces correct results.
Hhmmmm is this a bug or something we're not doing "right"?
By the way, thank you for trying

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Just a simple question: why don't smart folders work in Logic? Is there a workaround about that?
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Sorry guys, I just needed to wait longer to get the files. I'm on a dual 2.5Ghz with 8GB of ram and Spotlight is still pretty slow... but anyway, that answers my question!

If i delete a file from a smart folder is it deleted from the hard drive?

I've got a late 2011 17" MacBook Pro with a 750 GB harddrive. I'm trying to free up space by deleting movie files. I spoke with tech support about this, and they suggested creating a smart folder of all my movie files in order to find them and delte them. I did this and deleted many files, but when I open system information to check on the amount of hard drive space, I'm still seeing the same amount of hard drive space dedicated to movies.
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What files are stored automatically by Time Machine? I thought Time Machine pretty much saved everything on my hard drive to my external hard drive. If that is the case, wouldn't my music files and picture files be on Time Machine (via my external hard drive)?
Time Machine does backup almost all files on your hard drive, unless you have chosen to exclude them. There are a few exceptions, but nothing you should worry about. Your music and photos should be there, but Time Machine will not backup your iPhoto library if iPhoto is open.
Also, are the photos from iPhoto automatically stored on my external hard drive via Time Machine? If so, can I delete the pictures from iPhoto without deleting them from the external hard drive?
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I notice that it takes iPhoto quite a while to load, and if deleting those photos would allow it to load quicker I would delete them (providing they would remain on the external hard drive.
I only have a few pictures in iPhoto, compared to my wife's 3,500+, and my iPhoto doesn't load appreciably faster that her's does even though I have a faster computer. In my opinion, it isn't worth the effort it would take to delete them for such a small gain.
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several issues with your question
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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
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5 - it is helpful to know what version of iPhoto you have
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Hi
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thanks neil.
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Smart folder view options

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http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/MDImporters/index.htm l#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001267
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