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smart mailbox email sent only to me
I am kind of surprised that I couldn't find anything by general search. Like many of us I receive ton of emails everyday. I have several smart mailboxes on my mac to get to the ones I need to fast.
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Aperture: Import content of smart folder
Is there any way to import the content of Smart Folder into Aperture library?
Or may be choose any criteria during importing, like file kind, date etc.
BTW: Can I see a size of all checked files?
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Size of Smart Folder
May be I miss something obvious but could you please give a hint how to check the size of all content of Smart Folder?
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How can I automaticly move every file on desktop to specific folder based on extension?
I'm looking for something, probably some kind of action script, that will at any time move everything that's on my desktop directly to a specific folder on my desktop, based on the extension. Just to ...
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How do a create an iPhoto Smart Album of ANY of the names X, Y or Z but only for the year 2013
I'm trying to create a smart album that has "face is" with each member of my family the date range is a given year. In other words I'm trying to create a "yearly" smart album of just my immediate ...
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Smart Mailbox Folder not displaying mail
I've got two smart mailboxes named NEW eric@ and NEW ericgorr@ which contain only new message for corresponding email accounts. I have placed these two smart mailboxes into a smart mailbox folder ...
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Smart Folder: what is the URL?
I added the criteria: all files whose URL contains /. I would have thought that this just matches all my files. But it doesn't list any. Why?
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Smart Folder: how to create listing of all files in a folder?
I want to create a Smart Folder which just lists all files of my ~/Music directory - i.e. just a flattened version of that folder.
How can I do this?
(I tried to type * in the search field, but that ...
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Smart Folders: What is the difference between “This Mac” and “All My Files”?
What is the difference between "This Mac" and "All My Files"?
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Smart Folder: are placemarkers allowed? what is allowed?
What is allowed in the text field of Smart Folder criteria, such when I select that the Name should match something? Can I use * to match any text? What about ?? What about regular expressions?
Where ...
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Smart Folder: what files are considered as music?
What files are considered as music? How can I edit that list?
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Smart mailbox for senders who are not members of a group
I want to set up a smart mailbox in Mail that contains messages from any sender who is not a member of a particular group in my address book.
There's an option in the smart mailbox rules for "sender ...
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messages disappeared from some mailboxes and smart mailboxes following removal of an account from Mail
I upgraded to Mountain Lion recently. My email changed as well. I used to have my 40K emails in different mailboxes and now I realize that the new way to do so is with 'smart mailboxes' (I actually ...
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How to make Smart folder like physical folder with the combined contents of two folders
I have an application which looks for its data (*.txt) files in a folder. I have two folders containing text data that I need to keep separate, but it would be useful to have the application see the ...
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Copy contents of a smart folder to a new folder in Mountain Lion
I admit that my music collection is a royal mess. This is the result of merging many sources of music (external drive, old iPod sync, iTunes purchases, etc) into my iTunes account. iTunes Match has ...
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Smart Folder containing AACs that aren't Apple Lossless
My iTunes library has well over 25,000 tracks in it, and so I have to use this workaround in order to use iTunes Match. sigh Fine. So I've created the dummy library, and now I have to populate it with ...
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How to get (Mountain Lion?) Finder to display ALL files?
I'm trying to display ALL files, and it doesn't work as I would expect. What am I doing wrong?! Thanks for the help...
Open a Finder window
Select your 'home' - click on your username
Select File > ...
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Smart “Applications” folder
How to create a "smart" Applications folder that unifies the content of other three folders?
In my machine I have three versions of OS X installed (for testing purposes) in different partitions, each ...
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Turn off Smart Folders display “.savedSearch” extension in Finder sidebar
I held off upgrading my Mac Pro from Snow Leopard to Lion until I had replaced all the important apps that would no longer run.
So far it's OK, but one thing has me baffled is that my Smart Searches ...
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What determines the search attributes available when creating a smart folder?
In other words, if I go to Smart Folder > Other... there's a list of search attributes that varies by system, but where do they come from?
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Is it possible to display a Smart Folder as a stack in the Dock?
I'd like to have my recent files at hand from my dock, preferably via a 'stack'.
I have already created a Smart Folder containing all my files that have been opened in the last 3 days and added it to ...
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What does “More…” mean in the Finder's “All my Files” view?
In the Finder's view "All My Files", I can see a button "More…"... what does this button mean? Why is it there in the first place?
Edit: The button is not always there. If I click on it, the ...
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Is there a Mac equivalent to Windows 7's library feature?
Having several related files in different folders, I was looking for a way to combine them in the same view, like the "Libraries" of Windows Explorer in Win7.
While Finder has great smart folder ...
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Can you get SL “Today” folder behavior in Lion?
Snow Leopard had a default smart folder called "Today". This folder was awesome! All "Open" dialog boxes could easily display all of the files you've worked on "Today" (which are probably the ones you ...
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Is there a way to search for locked files in the finder?
The title pretty much says it all. Using the File Inspector I can see if a given file is locked or not, but I would like to be able to create a smart folder containing all the files in a given folder ...
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How do I fix this Smart Folder problem? It keeps switching off of “This Mac”
I created a Smart Folder in the finder called "TV" which searches for files of type movie created in the last 7 days. When I created the search in the first place, I clicked on "Search This Mac" to ...
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Can I get the Media browsers from the File Open dialog in the Finder sidebar?
The File Open dialog has three very useful Media entries in the sidebar (Photos, Movies, Music). They are backed by the various iLife applications, so that you can select, for example, from your ...
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Smartfolders- Can I narrow the query?
When using Smartfolders in Mac OS 10.6.5, is it possible to choose where to search beyond the 2 button choices? One button is usually "This Mac' (too broad) and the other one is a folder that has ...
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Mail: Smart Mailbox Filters
How can I get the smart mailbox to filter email correctly? I have the following set:
Contains messages that match ANY:
Subject Contains criteria one
Entire Message Contains criteria two
Entire ...
