Why no size in smart folders?

Why is size grayed out on a CMD-J in Smart Folders? I'd like to be able to sort by size.

ok, so i'm looking at the spotlight index. but if i choose to search for files over a particular size, it is getting the size info when it retrieves information about the file. and finder is built to have this information. why can't this be used?
(ok, ok, i'm basically asking the developer of the item a question … i agree with the last answer of Suds&Hops!)

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Why no support for Smart Folders on the iPod Touch?

I've been told that any folders you create in iTunes show up fine on the iPhone, iPod Nano and Classic. But they DO not show up on the iPod Touch. Can someone help me understand why this is the case?
Thanks!

because apple have not made the feature available (only they know why)
feature requests: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodtouch.html

How can I sort by file size in smart folders?

The Apple info says use pop-up menus to select search criteria, but where is that? I wish to have the folder show all documents bigger than a certain size (ie. video) appear in the folder. My next question, is can I then drag to the Trash from that folder and know that they're deleted from their original location. I assume appearing in a smart folder is like an alias, its not reall copied to this new location.
Thanks!

joey1000000000 wrote:
The Apple info says use pop-up menus to select search criteria, but where is that?
From <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8923.html>
To change the criteria for a Smart Folder:
Open the Smart Folder.
Either begin typing in the Smart Folder’s search field, or open the Action pop-up menu (looks like a gear) and choose Show Search Criteria.
(My stress.)
I wish to have the folder show all documents bigger than a certain size (ie. video) appear in the folder.
Use size as a search criterion.
can I then drag to the Trash from that folder and know that they're deleted from their original location.
Yes.
I assume appearing in a smart folder is like an alias, its not reall copied to this new location.
Correct, but certain actions (such as trashing) are applied to the actual file.

Can I add/show a size column for smart folders?

I've created a set of smart folders to filter the files on my system by size (e.g. <10megs, 10-499megs, 500-999megs and >1Gig.
What I'd like to do is sort the files by size, so having the folder show a size column would be great... however it doesn't seem to be possible (or the how is not publicized). It just shows name, kind and last opened. If I change the view to ICON, I can get the size for some files, but others, like movies or music, show their duration, not size.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Gary

If you want to report this to Apple, send a bug report (or enhancement request) via its Bug Reporter system. Join the Apple Developer Connection (ADC)—it's free and available for all Mac users and gets you a look at some development software. Since you already have an Apple username/ID, use that. Once a member, go to Apple BugReporter and file your bug report/enhancement request. You'll get a get a Bug or ER ID number; thus, starting a dialog directly with engineering.

Why my smart folders dissapear in mail when i close mail application in mountain lion?

Why my smart folders dissapear in mail when i close mail application in mountain lion?
Please help!

My results jumped up from around 1000 to 10,000 when I did that.
I think this may have to do with having x11 and xcode installed.
In case anyone is interested, these are the folders I've had to exclude:
User\Library\Developer
System\Library\Frameworks
opt in the root folder of the HD (this is x11. You may have to Finder's 'go to folder' option to get to it.)
There was also Office stuff coming up which looks like it's from the system when you see it (the identities folder and the subfolder within the Office 2011 folder in Applications)
The combination of this stuff seemed to create the impression of more files from the System and Library folders were coming up than actually were.
In case anyone is still reading, the stuff *still* being thrown up that I'm aware of is
Mountain Lion screensavers from the System and Library folders.
PreferencePanes - System, PreferencePanes - User and PreferencePanes - Library folders, which each show up as individual results.
But, as you say, bispymusic, perhaps Apple has deigned that those folders appear in results. Thanks a lot for your help! Have a good one.

Why can't I use smart folders/searches on ANY random folder?

I am trying to do what I thought was a simple operation with Smart Folders, but it turns out it isn't.
I want to use a smart folder on ANY folder, and not just one specific folder.
For instance, let's say I want to find out which files in any folder I happen to choose consists of audio files that are either mono or stereo. This is easy to do if I just set the smart folder to search the entire disk, or one, specfic folder, but for some reason I can't just use the smart folder on ANY random folder I happen to choose.
Is there any workaround? Or any other way to do this?

Non authoritative answer: Only IE and Bing Toolbar versions are available. Did Microsoft decide to fund development strictly for their browsers?

Why the mail smart folders don't show the email?

Suddenly (as it looks to me) any smart folders of Mail show their email; someone does have anything to suggest?

Go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts and use the minus sign "-" at the bottom to remove any and all accounts that you don't want in Mail.

Why do my Mac Mail smart folders keep disappearing

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Smart Folders - different view types

Why is it that some Smart Folders I create, look like a normal folder (can be sorted by Name, Date Modified, Kind, etc) and other Smart Folders look like the windows in Spotlight, which do not contain separate sortable headings for Name, Date Modified, etc.?
I tried to change the "view" but there appears to be no option to do so.

There are three View options available (in the "normal" window toolbar, which is above the "find" toolbar, if you have the toolbar enabled) in a Find window: as Icons, as List, as Groups. I have my search window set to a default of List view. The Groups is the usual default. You have to edit a system file if you want to change the default behavior. But if you open a Find window, set the View to list, enter your search criteria and save as a smart folder, then it should open in the same state it was when you saved it. Anyway, mine always do.
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Smart folders not working...

I've got some smart folders that just stopped working... I haven't changed the definitions and they were working fine, but all of a sudden they are not.
The one that is not working is defined with 3 things, one of them is another smart filter. This has always worked in the past.
I booted the machine, and inso doing went in and out of mail. Is there anything to reset?
thanks...

I found a work around... but I'm still curious why this stopped working...
The original logic was to have a sort of pre-filter Smart Mailbox with tons of conditions with "Any" selected. Then the second folder had "All" selected with "In the pre-filter mailbox" and "in the inbox selected". This stopped working and I had to then change it to "In the pre-filter mailbox" and "not in the specific folder I later sort into" This isn't quite as useful since sometimes I sort into different folders, but it did work.
I'm on 10.4.10 on a PPC iMac G5 1GB DDR2 SDRAM... I've done all the updates Apple can put out here except the iPod stuff since I'm not in that world... yet.

Smart Folders and Filtering based on Focal Length

Can we please be given the ability to create Smart Folders and be able to Filter images based on focal length?
Doing so based on Lens alone does not take into account that more and more people rely on zoom lenses. When you have 16-35, 27-70, 35-135 and 70-200 lenses, one could benefit from having the ability to search for images created in wide-angle, normal, zoom and tele-zoom ranges.
Providing this feature would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, JML

Thanks Colin, I will try it.
Sounds like it may work - however bit awkward solution in otherwise ergonomic LR environment :-(
I really do not understand why this value is not among the filtering metadata when LR recognizes it and shows it on every corner. Especially considering the fact LR is supposed to be full WF solution and certain development settings cannot be effectively applied without selecting images only with certain focal length values.
The very last feature I am missing on this SW designed to cover entire WF (since LR1) is the distortion/perspective control and ability to apply corrections based on lens/focal length used.
b Does anyone have an idea if Adobe plans to eventually implement this feature?
I do not want to be forced to use DxO which always means interruption of the WF and inevitably generated new files on disk.

How do I get smart folders to stick on search?

I am organising my graphics on my iMac.
I started setting up smart folders to find all my material.
The first searching on ".pdf" did what it was supposed to and retained its search.
All the subsequent ones for ".eps", ".tiff", "Lists" etc initially find what they are supposed to then after saving & adding to the control bar they find nothing but the first search: ".pdf"
What am I doing wrong, if anything?

On looking at the parameters of the search I find they are cumulative.
After I searched on one, it added the subsequent search to the terms of the previous search.
Now why would that be a good idea?
For a start I have to go back and redit the searches every time I do a new one, instead of it just doing the obvious and retaining the parameters of that single search when I add it to the control bar.
It appears to be doing the expected at the time of the search, not when saved.

Smart Folders and Spotlight

Previous discussions on this forum regarding Spotlight's inconsistent ability to find files caused me to disable Spotlight (using Spotless) and use Easy Find to find things.
No one warned me that disabling Spotlight would interfere with smart folders. I use smart folders in Mail, iTunes and elsewhwere. At first I couldn't figure out why they weren't working right.
It is not intuitively obvious that smart folders are basically saved Spotlight searches. Participants on this forum should know.
I've re-enabled Spotlight, I force a re-index now and then, and have Easy Find ready for backup use, if Spotlight can't find something.
That way, most of the time, smart folders are correct, or nearly so.
Just my .00000002 cents worth.
Tim
533 mhz dual CPU G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I have never had any need to "save my searches". Why on earth would I want to do that?
Consider the fllowing scenario: a disabled person to be cared for, rich and varied sources of information via articles, emails and even images. Literally thousands of documents. Few are about a single subject, such as, say a particular medication, but many refer and discuss the medication inter alia. Do a search based on the name of the medicine. Save it. Everytime the medicine is mentioned in a new article or email, that gets added to that folder. Now search for Physiotherapy. Many of the same articles and emails, but in a different folder.
That's why on earth I would want to save a search. And have many such. Invaluable.
I realise that Spotlight is not for you, but for some of us it's a boon.
Regards
TD

Smart folders and .doc files

Problem: Smart folders do not show Microsoft .doc files. I have created a smart folder to show all documents I worked on recently. The search criteria in the smart folder are
kind -> document
last opened -> within last 14 days
The folder shows now all documents I opened during the previous 14 days, EXCEPT .doc files. Any solution?

Axxelerator wrote:
Somewhere must be a setting that tells spotlight which file is a document which one is not...
Actually, that information is a part of the metadata for the file. As I mentioned above, the actuall criteria used when you select Documents is the nearly all-inclusive
kMDItemContentTypeTree = public.content
You can read the metadata for any file using the Terminal. Launch Terminal, then type:
mdls
a space, then drag and drop a file into the Terminal window and hit the Return key. You'll see something like this:
NoobiX:~ francine$ mdls /Users/francine/Documents/wordocs/MyFamily.doc
kMDItemAuthors = (
"Francine Schwieder"
kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2008-08-31 12:49:48 -0700
kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2008-08-31 12:49:48 -0700
kMDItemContentType = "com.microsoft.word.doc"
kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
"com.microsoft.word.doc",
"public.data",
"public.item",
"public.composite-content",
"public.content"
kMDItemDisplayName = "MyFamily.doc"
And so on, with all the rest of the metadata displayed. The relevant entry in this case is "public.content" statement in the kMDItemContentTypeTree.
I can't imagine that that entry is changed by saving something as .doc rather than .docx, which is why the only thing I can think of that would cause the behavior you are seeing is a Spotlight plist that is somehow messed up and excluding the extension doc. But I can't imagine how THAT would happen either.
As for AND searches: you already have that setup when you click the + button to add something. Thus, in the example above, the search is for files that are Documents AND were modified in the last 3 days, but are NOT jpegs, etc.
I have difficulty with correctly setting up the OR function, I always think that an option click on the + button, then selecting "Any" and adding a criterion ought to do it, but that doesn't seem to work as expected (or at least as I expect it to!). Anyway, one OR method that would yield approximately the same results as the example search above would be to select Kind is Other and then put this into the blank space after Other:
HTML OR text OR PDF OR RTF OR archive
Trouble is that if there WERE some doc or docx files, or some other sort of text based item, it wouldn't show up. I find it easier to just exclude things I know I don't want.
Francine
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Smart folders icon preview

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