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  • How to get Smart Folders / Saved Searches to show up in FinderSidebar again? OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra

    From Dudley Brooks@dbrooks@runforyourlife.org to comp.sys.mac.misc on Tue Jul 4 13:33:09 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.misc

    I created several Smart Folders and they were displayed as individual
    Saved Searches in the Sidebar, and there was a link called Saved
    Searches that showed all of them in a folder when clicked on.

    After creating a couple more today, suddenly the individual ones are no
    longer in the Sidebar nor is the Saved Searches link.

    I can't find any info on how to get them to reappear.

    (And a minor irritation: Why are they called Smart Folders when you
    create them but Saved Searches when they are listed and you view them???)
    --
    Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director
    Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company!
    San Francisco
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  • From Dudley Brooks@dbrooks@runforyourlife.org to comp.sys.mac.misc on Wed Jul 5 21:31:08 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.misc

    I simply found the Saved Searches folder in Library and dragged it into
    the Sidebar.

    I put the question mark after "SOLVED" because I'm not 100% sure I
    restored it to the original way. It currently shows as a regular
    folder, and I *think* I remember it as a "special" folder. But I might
    be mis-remembering ... and anyway it does work.

    (I had previously found the Saved Searches folder in Library and dragged
    it to the Sidebar, but when I clicked on it, it showed nonsense. That
    turned out to be because I had found a *different* Saved Searches
    folder, for some *program*.)

    On 7/4/23 1:33 PM, Dudley Brooks wrote:

    I created several Smart Folders and they were displayed as individual
    Saved Searches in the Sidebar, and there was a link called Saved
    Searches that showed all of them in a folder when clicked on.

    After creating a couple more today, suddenly the individual ones are no longer in the Sidebar nor is the Saved Searches link.

    I can't find any info on how to get them to reappear.

    (And a minor irritation:  Why are they called Smart Folders when you
    create them but Saved Searches when they are listed and you view them???)

    --
    Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director
    Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company!
    San Francisco
    --- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.114