Sep 19, '05 09:17:00AM • Contributed by: horhey23
At the risk of submitting the obvious ... I had a hard time when first using Tiger's Smart Folders feature to just find recent items in my Freelance folder. I created a new Smart Folder, but just couldn't find any search criteria to limit things to a certain folder.
The solution? First navigate to the folder to which you want to limit the search. Hit Command-F, or in the menu, go to File -> Find. The "tab bar" at the top of the search criteria window now shows the folder you are currently in as one of the options. Select it, and then you can (as always) specify the other search criteria to your liking. Hit the Save button, and you now have a Smart Folder restricted to a specific folder (and its sub-folders).
[robg adds: You can do this directly from the New Smart Folder window, but it's quite time consuming -- click the Others... button and drag your destination folder into the list of locations, then uncheck all the others. The problem with this is that the changes you make to the Others list will remain in force -- the next time you create a Smart Folder, the Others pop-up will look just like you left it. So the above method is the best way to create a folder-specific Smart Folder. And yes, this is a fairly obvious hint, but not everyone may be aware of it. I find the behavior a bit confusing, as you have to remember to first move to the folder you wish to search, then create the Smart Folder...]
