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Saved Searches in Finder Don't Work

I tagged all my 3rd Party Applications with a tag called "Third Party" and then did a search in Finder for all applications with this Tag and saved the search. It seemed to work.


Then I noticed that some preference panes that were third party weren't included. So I removed the "Kind" search criteria and still no preference panes. I checked the Finder sidebar and there is a tag for "Third Party" and it does have the preference panes included.


I tried a new search with Kind = "macOS Preference Pane" but that returned nothing, even though I copied that from a 3rd part Preference Pane's Get Info window.


What is going on?

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on Sep 20, 2020 12:31 PM

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Posted on Oct 31, 2020 10:11 AM

I figured this out. I had to add a condition, select other and then include system files. That fixed it.

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