TAILIEUCHUNG - Smart Folders

. Smart Folders You may remember from Chapter 1 (or from staring at your own computer) that the Sidebar at the left side of every Leopard desktop window contains a set of little folders under the Searches heading | . Smart Folders You may remember from Chapter 1 or from staring at your own computer that the Sidebar at the left side of every Leopard desktop window contains a set of little folders under the Searches heading. Each is actually a smart folder a self-updating folder that in essence performs a continual 24 7 search for the criteria you specify. Smart folders are a lot like smart albums in iPhoto and iTunes smart mailboxes in Mail and so on. Note In truth the smart folder performs a search for the specified criteria at the moment you open it. But because it s so fast and because it s always up to date it feels as though it s been quietly searching all along. As it turns out the ones installed there by Apple are meant to serve as inspiration for you to create your own smart folders. The key as it turns out is the little Save button in the upper-right corner of the Spotlight window. Here s a common example of how you might use it. It s an example by the way that you can t replicate in any other operating system. You choose File Find. You set up the pop-up menus to say last opened date and this week. You click Save. You name the smart folder something like Current Crises and you turn on Add to Sidebar Figure 38 . Tip Behind the scenes smart folders that you create are actually special files that are stored in your Home Library Saved Searches folder. Figure 3-8. Mac OS X can preserve your search as a smart folder listed in the Sidebar lower left at least it does as long as Add To Sidebar is turned on. You can stash a smart folder in your Dock too although it doesn t display a stack of its contents as normal folders do. From now on whenever you click that smart folder it reveals all of the files you ve worked on in the last week or so. The great part is that these items real locations may be all over the map scattered in folders all over your Mac and your network. But through the magic of the smart folder they appear as though they re all in one neat folder. Tip If you

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