How to search in Finder for date created = a specified day of the week

Question

Is it possible to use a Finder search to display all files created on a Monday, or on a Tuesday, etc.?

Answer 1

If you have Python 3 installed, this kind of thing may help:

• Substitute a folder path with a string literal instead of os.path.dirname(__file__)

  • e.g. '/'. It will traverse the hierarchy of folders. Hasn't been tested for things like read rights - you may have some system folders it wouldn't let you traverse.
  • But try some place like Documents folder. It has to be an absolute path. So '/Users/<profile>/Documents'

• and a day of week eg 'SUN' instead of 'MON' etc.

The script could be easily modified to add command line arguments (see sys.argv).

But it's enough to get you started.

__author__ = 'Jeremy Gordon Flowers'

from typing import List

def cls() -> None:
    from os import system, name
    clr = 'cls' if name == 'nt' else 'clear'
    system(clr)

def get_files_for_dow(dir_path:str, dow:str) -> List[str]:
    #https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.weekday
    # 0 = MON, 6 = SUN
    DOW = ['MON','TUE','WED','THU','FRI','SAT','SUN']
    weekday = DOW.index(dow)
    results = []
    import os
    import datetime
    from pathlib import Path
    for (dir_path, dir_names, file_names) in os.walk(dir_path):
        for f in file_names:
            fn = os.path.join(dir_path,f)
            #https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.getctime
            fd = os.path.getctime(fn)
            d = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(fd)
            if d.weekday() == weekday:
                results.append(fn) 
    return results

def main() -> None:
    cls()
    import os
    for f in get_files_for_dow(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'MON'):
        print(f)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Answer 2

1. Search something in Finder
2. Click on the circle with three dots.
3. In the drop-down menu that appears, select Show Search Criteria
4. A bar will appear with three drop-down buttons.
5. Click the first drop-down button and select Created Date.
6. Click the second drop-down button and select exactly.
7. Click the third drop-down button and select your desired date.
8. Replace your "something" from Step 1 with what you actually want to search.