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10.4: Group and sort Finder Spotlight search results
Authored by: billclinton on Jun 29, '06 02:07:36PM

This is all very handy. But can someone figure out how to get "Group by Date" to use the modification date rather than the last-opened date? As soon as you open any file with this search result open, and you have selected "Group by Date," that file pops right up to the top of the list. I don't find this to be useful default behavior.



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10.4: Group and sort Finder Spotlight search results
Authored by: ephramz on Aug 09, '06 02:54:04PM

I just wanted to do the same thing- a find by content, sorted by creation date instead of "last viewed date" (which is the default date sorting method, and I agree, not very useful defauly behavior)- so I did a find in the Finder window, then switched to list view (command-2), then view-options (command-J), then make sure "creation date" is checked. Now "creation date" shows up as a column and I can click on the column header to sort by that instead of "view date".

It's pretty annoying that each time I want to do a search this way, I have to redo all these steps as Finder reverts back to not showing the creation date every time I do a new search. Perhaps if you save it as a search... yeah, that seems to work, and added to my sidebar it's just a click away, but how can I make it have a keyboard shortcut? I guess you could use Launchbar, Butler, or Quicksilver. But then when it pops up you still have to hit the Edit button, so doesn't really save time or keyboard strokes. Hmm... Maybe in Leopard 10.5?



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10.4: Group and sort Finder Spotlight search results
Authored by: Coumerelli on Apr 12, '07 05:38:59AM

This works great! and as expected. except it doesn't work on SMB shares. I don't know about AFP, but I CAN use spotlight on SMB shares and use Apple-2 and sort by date modified - it's just that when I add the date created column they are all "---" - so, nothing.

An otherwise great thread of hints within hints!

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