10.4: Find emails and contacts in Smart Folders

May 17, '05 09:23:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Tiger only hintSmart folders don't return emails or contacts, even though the Spotlight menu search does. To work around this limitation, open the Smart Folder in Property List Editor (or a text editor) and edit the "RawQuery" string, removing this text:

 && (kMDItemContentType != com.apple.mail.emlx) 
 && (kMDItemContentType != public.vcard)
Note that the text is one continuous line; it's been shown here on two lines for a narrower display. You can also modify this string to build complex boolean queries that the GUI doesn't support, as has been discussed in other hints...

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