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Daily Trick 29. Smart Folder

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One of our readers, Mahdi Hosseini, stumbled on the Smart Folder trick and he is eager to share with us.

Smart Folder Trick

I came across a cool thing buried inside Finder.app.

If you like the current Canned Searches that could be used to search for certain files, such as All Documents, All Images, etc, and wish to have more search categories, worry not.

You can follow these steps to browse for more:

  1. Open your Finder and hit Cmd-Shift-G for opening Quick Address Jump
  2. Copy this address into the popped-down box: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/CannedSearches/
  3. You will find many Canned Search/Smart Folders inside with different search categories, you can drop some to your sidebar
  4. Everytime you want to do the searching, just click on the folder

For example, by using the Smart Folder: All PDF Documents, you don't need to search all over the place to find your PDFs, single click on this Smart Folder will do the job.

End of the Trick

Many thanks to Mahdi for this little useful trick.

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Brandon

Excellent find, just one question before I will use this.  Can I add these searches with the other predetermined ones under "Search For"?  Or can I only drag them onto "Places"?  Those are great predetermined searches, but I don't want to clutter up my "Places" area.  I usually have "Search For" minimized unless I am using it.

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Glad to see everyone liked this tiny tip. Thank you UsingMac! :)

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