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How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra)
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Dudley Brooks
Jun 8, 2023, 1:12:16 PM6/8/23
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I haven't created any new Smart Folders in a long time, and have
forgotten the details of the process.
I tried to create a new one today and, after wasting time trying to
figure out how to include "OR" in the search field, I realized that I
should just do "Show Search Criteria" on a previous Smart Folder. Duh!
I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are true".
But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far, I
haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it mentioned on
any online help page or in Mac Help.
--
Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director
Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company!
San Francisco
forgotten the details of the process.
I tried to create a new one today and, after wasting time trying to
figure out how to include "OR" in the search field, I realized that I
should just do "Show Search Criteria" on a previous Smart Folder. Duh!
I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are true".
But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far, I
haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it mentioned on
any online help page or in Mac Help.
--
Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director
Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company!
San Francisco
Jolly Roger
Jun 8, 2023, 8:46:10 PM6/8/23
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On 2023-06-09, Doc O'Leary <drolear...@2023.impossiblystupid.com> wrote:
> For your reference, records indicate that
> each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
> you're looking for.
BTW, you can find this in the Finder's built-in help. Choose Help >
macOS help from the Finder menu bar, then search for "finder search" and
click the "Narrow your search results on Mac" topic. Under "Add criteria
to a search", it's step 6. 😉
--
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.
JR
> For your reference, records indicate that
> Dudley Brooks <dbr...@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>
>> I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are
>> true".
>>
>> But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far, I
>> haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it mentioned on
>> any online help page or in Mac Help.
>
> With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+” for
>
>> I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are
>> true".
>>
>> But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far, I
>> haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it mentioned on
>> any online help page or in Mac Help.
>
> each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
> you're looking for.
BTW, you can find this in the Finder's built-in help. Choose Help >
macOS help from the Finder menu bar, then search for "finder search" and
click the "Narrow your search results on Mac" topic. Under "Add criteria
to a search", it's step 6. 😉
--
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.
JR
Dudley Brooks
Jun 8, 2023, 9:35:06 PM6/8/23
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On 6/8/23 5:05 PM, Doc O'Leary wrote:
> For your reference, records indicate that
> Dudley Brooks <dbr...@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>
> For your reference, records indicate that
> Dudley Brooks <dbr...@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>
>> I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are true".
>>
>> But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far, I
>> haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it mentioned on
>> any online help page or in Mac Help.
>
>>
>> But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far, I
>> haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it mentioned on
>> any online help page or in Mac Help.
>
> With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+” for
> each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
> you're looking for.
Fantastic! I never knew you could do *nested* Booleans. I've been
> each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
> you're looking for.
wishing for that for years ... and it was there all the time! (Or at
least since whenever it was introduced.) Now I won't have to do even
the very few elaborate workarounds I successfully came up with!
Thanks!
Dudley Brooks
Jun 8, 2023, 9:36:54 PM6/8/23
to
On 6/8/23 5:46 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2023-06-09, Doc O'Leary <drolear...@2023.impossiblystupid.com> wrote:
>> For your reference, records indicate that
>> Dudley Brooks <dbr...@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are
>>> true".
>>>
>>> But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far, I
>>> haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it mentioned on
>>> any online help page or in Mac Help.
>>
>> With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+” for
>> each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
>> you're looking for.
>
> BTW, you can find this in the Finder's built-in help. Choose Help >
> macOS help from the Finder menu bar, then search for "finder search" and
> click the "Narrow your search results on Mac" topic. Under "Add criteria
> to a search", it's step 6. 😉
Yeah. The trouble, as always, is that you have to know *what* to search
> On 2023-06-09, Doc O'Leary <drolear...@2023.impossiblystupid.com> wrote:
>> For your reference, records indicate that
>> Dudley Brooks <dbr...@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are
>>> true".
>>>
>>> But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far, I
>>> haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it mentioned on
>>> any online help page or in Mac Help.
>>
>> With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+” for
>> each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
>> you're looking for.
>
> BTW, you can find this in the Finder's built-in help. Choose Help >
> macOS help from the Finder menu bar, then search for "finder search" and
> click the "Narrow your search results on Mac" topic. Under "Add criteria
> to a search", it's step 6. 😉
for. Since I'd been doing this by clicking New Smart Folder, I didn't
think to look for Saved Searches.
Thanks!
Jolly Roger
Jun 8, 2023, 9:59:48 PM6/8/23
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used to do it, and after bumbling around in the UI, threw my hands up in
frustration. It wasn't until Doc answered that it occurred to me to
search for it in the help system. 🤣
I *hate* it when features like this are so hidden that you have a hard
time figuring out how to do them without prior knowledge (and even with
it, if it's been long enough that you've forgotten)!
Jolly Roger
Jun 8, 2023, 10:00:23 PM6/8/23
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On 2023-06-09, Dudley Brooks <dbr...@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
> On 6/8/23 5:05 PM, Doc O'Leary wrote:
>
>> For your reference, records indicate that
>> Dudley Brooks <dbr...@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are true".
>>>
>>> But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far, I
>>> haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it mentioned on
>>> any online help page or in Mac Help.
>>
>> With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+” for
>> each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
>> you're looking for.
>
> Fantastic! I never knew you could do *nested* Booleans. I've been
> wishing for that for years ... and it was there all the time! (Or at
> least since whenever it was introduced.) Now I won't have to do even
> the very few elaborate workarounds I successfully came up with!
>
> Thanks!
+1 Thanks, Doc.
>
>> For your reference, records indicate that
>> Dudley Brooks <dbr...@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are true".
>>>
>>> But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far, I
>>> haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it mentioned on
>>> any online help page or in Mac Help.
>>
>> With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+” for
>> each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
>> you're looking for.
>
> Fantastic! I never knew you could do *nested* Booleans. I've been
> wishing for that for years ... and it was there all the time! (Or at
> least since whenever it was introduced.) Now I won't have to do even
> the very few elaborate workarounds I successfully came up with!
>
> Thanks!
Dudley Brooks
Jun 8, 2023, 10:30:06 PM6/8/23
to
naive user. But if even sophisticated users have trouble when starting
from quasi-scratch ... I really wonder how true that reputation is.
Dudley Brooks
Jun 8, 2023, 10:34:20 PM6/8/23
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On 6/8/23 7:00 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2023-06-09, Dudley Brooks <dbr...@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>> On 6/8/23 5:05 PM, Doc O'Leary wrote:
>>
>>> For your reference, records indicate that
>>> Dudley Brooks <dbr...@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are true".
>>>>
>>>> But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far, I
>>>> haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it mentioned on
>>>> any online help page or in Mac Help.
>>>
>>> With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+” for
>>> each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
>>> you're looking for.
>>
>> Fantastic! I never knew you could do *nested* Booleans. I've been
>> wishing for that for years ... and it was there all the time! (Or at
>> least since whenever it was introduced.) Now I won't have to do even
>> the very few elaborate workarounds I successfully came up with!
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> +1 Thanks, Doc.
My new entry has so many rows (it's for someone who has *many* names and
> On 2023-06-09, Dudley Brooks <dbr...@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>> On 6/8/23 5:05 PM, Doc O'Leary wrote:
>>
>>> For your reference, records indicate that
>>> Dudley Brooks <dbr...@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are true".
>>>>
>>>> But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far, I
>>>> haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it mentioned on
>>>> any online help page or in Mac Help.
>>>
>>> With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+” for
>>> each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
>>> you're looking for.
>>
>> Fantastic! I never knew you could do *nested* Booleans. I've been
>> wishing for that for years ... and it was there all the time! (Or at
>> least since whenever it was introduced.) Now I won't have to do even
>> the very few elaborate workarounds I successfully came up with!
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> +1 Thanks, Doc.
stage names and pseudonyms) that I can't see the top frame with the Save
button ... and there's no scrollbar for the top window with all the
search criteria. (There's only a scrollbar for the displayed results.)
Dudley Brooks
Jun 8, 2023, 10:36:35 PM6/8/23
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message "Do you want to save this search". But now even that is not
happening.
Jolly Roger
Jun 8, 2023, 11:11:02 PM6/8/23
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