Finder Smart Folders on Mac is a feature that allows us to create folders that automatically organize content according to certain criteria such as date modified, tags or file type. A very comfortable way to organize information and be able to quickly find exactly what we are looking for.
We can create a smart folder that automatically collects all images from a certain year or all text documents with a specific label, for example. This allows us to find and organize our files much easier and more so when any changes made to the files will be automatically updated.
They may disappear, but not completely
We create Smart Folders from searches. From there, we can establish the file selection rules and start locating what we’re looking for. In some cases, when said folders have more elaborate rules than normal, it’s a good idea that we can save them and add them to the Finder sidebar.
They seem safe there, but, on the one hand, we might forget to check the add option before saving it, and on the other hand, it wouldn’t be the first time we dragged inadvertently a sidebar element outside of it and it disappears. In the case of a specific folder, we can drag it backwards, but, in the case of a saved search Where can we find it?
In its own dedicated folder, of course. All we have to do to recover it is open a Finder window and in the menu And Choose go to file. Then we paste “~/Library/Saved Searches”, without the quotes, and press Enter. we’ll see all saved searches appearwhich we call smart folders —which are also available in Notes—, which we have created and saved at any time.
From there, adding any of them to the sidebar is as simple as selecting it, going to the menu Searcher and touch Add to sidebar. As simple as that. we’ll see appear in the Favorites section of the bar and that we can drag them to the position that suits us best once there.
According to smart folders, it is easier to return to the search field than anything else, but some with several rules and carefully adjusted we prefer that they are not lost. If we do, at least on the surface, we can easily get them back. Alone you have to know where to look.
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