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Is there any way I can get ‘Recents’ in to Finder sidebar on Sierra? Was it there on list of ticked items in Preferences for Finder. I went back from High Sierra to Sierra and don’t remember if it was there. An Apple store staff member told me that it should be there and there must be something wrong with my software. Can someone remind me if that’s true as I don’t think it was with Sierra? Thanks
MacBook Pro
In Sierra there was All My Files in your Finder> Preferences> Sidebar> Favourites, in High Sierra this was replaced with Recents,
and continues in Mojave.
There is a possible way to make a Smart Search folder for that searches for recent items.
In Finder click on File and New Smart Folder. A new Finder window will open.
Make sure This Mac is highlighted, on the right hand side click on the + button
now you can now select the criteria to narrow your search,
start with Kind is Any press the plus again add more criteria try
Last modified Date is Within Last 30 days
you can choose whatever search criteria in the fields and as as many you like.
Under Other... there are more selections you can make. Once you are satisfied
click to Save your Smart Search Folder, give it an appropriate name.
Make sure Add To Sidebar is selected. you can click the downward pointing arrow in the dialogue to expand the Save As window to show the folder structure of your Mac and select your own destination for the folder rather than the default Save Searches folder.
Experiment.
In Sierra there was All My Files in your Finder> Preferences> Sidebar> Favourites, in High Sierra this was replaced with Recents,
and continues in Mojave.
There is a possible way to make a Smart Search folder for that searches for recent items.
In Finder click on File and New Smart Folder. A new Finder window will open.
Make sure This Mac is highlighted, on the right hand side click on the + button
now you can now select the criteria to narrow your search,
start with Kind is Any press the plus again add more criteria try
Last modified Date is Within Last 30 days
you can choose whatever search criteria in the fields and as as many you like.
Under Other... there are more selections you can make. Once you are satisfied
click to Save your Smart Search Folder, give it an appropriate name.
Make sure Add To Sidebar is selected. you can click the downward pointing arrow in the dialogue to expand the Save As window to show the folder structure of your Mac and select your own destination for the folder rather than the default Save Searches folder.
Experiment.
Sierra does not have Recents it has All My Files, Recents was introduced with High Sierra and All My files was replaced with
Recents.
Other is in the bottom of the list when you press the first electable dropdown from the Smart Search dialogue
Any other options are up to you to define your Search criteria.
As I said experiment, to find out what suits your needs.
When you open your Smart Search folder you can change the order of how it displays it's contents.
Press the Arrange By button on the windows title bar.
Experiment, those buttons are there for pressing.
Thanks so much, much appreciated. Was told yesterday by Mac store staff that if my Sierra didn't have 'recent' in it there was a fault! Can't find 'Other', Also how do I stop it showing a load of folders from 'Library' and .com Apple files of which there are many. As was with older OS it was like Word Docs, Music, Jpegs and Folders only, if you know what I mean?
Now all I have to do is re index Spotlight as that isn't working properly and back as it was.
Ah, Thanks again, I've got a load of things like dozens of /Library/Containers/com.apple. etc. that are irrelevant but obviously working in the background that come up before the Files and Folders I use, That's what I was talking about getting rid of, How do I edit the new search folder now? EDIT, think I've found it now, thank you!
Any idea why it shows vcards for people who have only sent emails from Library/Metadata/,comApple and stuff like that? I've not clicked on any vcard files from them
When I said Kind> Any the search will provide you with any files that suit that search criteria.
If you want a more specific search choose Kind> Images or Documents or whatever
use the plus button to add certain criteria to narrow the Search
it is all there in front of you just decide what recent files you would like to see in your Search.
Yep, that's really helpful, thank you. And sure will help a lot of others too.
Only thing I don't get is why when I produce an document in Word, and convert to PDF, it only shows the PDF in the lists and doesn't show the Word doc to edit, Why does it ignore the doc and only show the PDF. Still trying to figure that one out. It does show a few older docs though
Yep, thank you, I will. PDF is another drop down there, but I've just got Documents ticked and it already includes all PDF anyway.
The top left Apple logo drop down does show the .doc files and pdf in the 'recent', but tend not to use that, especially as it's alphabetised for some reason, rather than last used, but for some reason this doesn't. But it's still very useful for all the other stuff, so thanks again.
Thanks, yes the order on the smart folder you instructed on is fine, it's the menu bar apple logo/recent I mentioned that is alphabetical only, but don't use that. This Smart search folder is really helpful thank you, Just need to work out why it's not showing docs/docx
One other thing that makes no sense is the vcard at the top of recents, which is showing from 5 minutes ago in recent list and I've not looked at one in contacts or the email of the relevant person's name. There was no vcard attached to their email anyway, just a normal email, but keeps showing up vcards?
If that is what you are finding then perhaps you should give Apple feed back.
Explain your situation clearly and they may take notice.
Have you checked Finder/Preferences/Sidebar/Favorites?
Hey Eric, yes, thanks, there is nothing in that list that says 'recent' on Sierra
*My mistake, interestingly, the Apple logo/Recent Items doesn't show '.doc' Word docs either, it only shows the PDF verions of the docs as well.
‘Recents’ help please
