{"id":3132,"date":"2016-10-03T18:50:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T15:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/apple\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2017-10-11T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T20:33:00","slug":"mac-smart-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/apple\/mac-smart-folders","title":{"rendered":"Apple Mac: How to Work With Smart Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">You can identify <em>Smart folders<\/em> by their purple color and cog icon. Otherwise, Smart folders look just like regular folders on your Mac, but instead of files and other items, they display Spotlight search results. So if you open a<em> Smart folder<\/em>, you won&#8217;t be able to see the contents inside the folder. You&#8217;ll view items elsewhere in the directory structure, instead. Even if you try, you can&#8217;t add items to <em>Smart Folders<\/em>. You use them to search for items elsewhere on you system.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"toc_container\" class=\"no_bullets\"><p class=\"toc_title\">Contents<\/p><ul class=\"toc_list\"><li><a href=\"#Apple_Mac_How_to_Work_With_Smart_Folders\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">1<\/span> Apple Mac: How to Work With Smart Folders<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#How_to_Make_Smart_Folders\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">1.1<\/span> How to Make Smart Folders<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Some_Smart_Folders_You_May_Need\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">1.2<\/span> Some Smart Folders You May Need<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#Links\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">2<\/span> Links<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span id=\"Apple_Mac_How_to_Work_With_Smart_Folders\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong>Apple Mac: How to Work With Smart Folders<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Working with <em>Smart Folders<\/em> and using the <em>Spotlight<\/em> search box, you can narrow <em>Spotlight<\/em> searches even further. This technology exists within <em>Finder<\/em> and in some Mac OS apps, although they can be named differently, as<em> Smart Mailboxes, Smart Playlists<\/em>, and so on.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span id=\"How_to_Make_Smart_Folders\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>How to Make Smart Folders<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Making <em>Smart Folders<\/em> is easy. Besides, the Mac OS comes with pre-loaded with a few Smart Folders. To access to these folders, open a new <em>Finder<\/em> window. Then look in the sidebar for the new <em>Search For<\/em> area. You&#8217;ll see <em>Today, Yesterday, Past Week, All Images, All Movies, All Documents<\/em>. All these elements are <em>Smart Folders<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you want to create a new <em>Smart Folder<\/em>, choose <em>File \u2013 New Smart Folder<\/em> from the<em> Finder<\/em> menu bar. Use the first drop-down menu option to choose a category, such as <em>Kind, Last Opened, Created Date<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When you create a <em>Smart Folder<\/em>, look also at the <em>Other<\/em> option. This menu opens a list of options that can be added to the drop-down menu. It&#8217;s worth taking time to investigate offerings to add, as there are many of them, from aperture values to video bit rates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Use the <em>Add (+)<\/em> button to add multiple search terms to narrow the results. For example, you can create a Smart folder that contains files about the secondhand electronics you have purchased the last month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When you are finished, save the <em>Smart Folder<\/em> and access it in <em>Finder<\/em>. To save the newly created folder, click <em>Save<\/em> button on the right side of the <em>New Smart Folder Window<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To add the <em>Smart Folder<\/em> to the <em>Search For area<\/em> in the<em> Finder<\/em>&#8216;s window setbar, select the Add to Sidebar check box in the Save dialog box.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Altogether, you can create multiple<em> Smart Folders<\/em> which search for Microsoft documents, PDF files, large or small images, documents you&#8217;ve worked this week, search for photographs taken with certain cameras. In fact, by looking through the Other folder, you&#8217;ll find lots of inspiration for many <em>Smart Folders<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span id=\"Some_Smart_Folders_You_May_Need\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Some Smart Folders You May Need<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Among the most popular smart folder many users create and use are the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">A smart folder where all the huge files are. You can select and place there files that are larger than 1 G or 700MB, or just 500MB and so on. Of course, you can change the value to whatever you want.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">A smart folder which helps find and delete .DMG Installers. These files\u00a0tend to stack up a bit. So if you find your downloads folder is constantly clogged up, you should start taking the trash out automatically by creating a special smart folder for these installers.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">You can create a smart folder where all the Apps you haven\u2019t opened in a while will show. You may define and specify your own time period as the folder has\u00a0multiple time periods. Thus this folder will help you do a bit of cleaning by seeing at a glance what programs you haven\u2019t used for a long-long time.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">A nice suggestion found in the net: See All .MOV files But Exclude .MP4 Files. The second part of this filter can be achieved by holding down the <em>Option<\/em> key while pressing the \u201c<em>+<\/em>\u201d button. The \u201c<em>+<\/em>\u201d then becomes three little dots. Click on that, and you will get what you see above. Note that this just an example, as you can use this approach for any media or filetype, such as .JPEGs instead of .PNGs, .DOCX instead of .RTF and so on.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Another very useful smart folder suggested by a Mac guru: Filter by (multiple) tags. If you right-click on a file, and choose <em>Get Info<\/em>, you are able to tag the file with keywords. If you prefer to filter a smart folder by only certain tags (like photos you want printed in one go or unfinished work you want to get back to) then you can create a filter to do so.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Fine-Tune recently created documents list: If you work a lot, it may be useful for you to see all of your recent work in one folder. You can create a smart folder and specify there a custom time period and make it more specific to your needs by focusing on certain file types (like .XLS spreadsheets) while ignoring everything else.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">A smart folder that helps find iPhone photos in OS X Photos. Like iTunes, OS X new Photos app also employs smart folders as smart albums. These work in an identical manner, allowing the user to run a custom query for specific attributes. One handy smart album filters by camera type in order to show the user only your smartphone images.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span id=\"Links\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong>Links<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">The most efficient way to recycle the Apple computer you don&#8217;t need anymore\u00a0: <a href=\"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sell your used computer to iGotOffer<\/a> for the best price on online market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>How to Turn Folder On Your Mac Into Smart Folder. \u00a0Mac OS X Tutorials and App reviews from HowTech <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Mac OS X Tutorials and App reviews from HowTech. 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