"All My Files" Not showing all my flies

I have the same problem with "All My Files" Feature, only display my Spreadsheets, Dev Files and some Documents:

Any Solution ?

This was the one thing that frightened me when I first opened Finder after I downloaded Lion.

I had everything in my Home Finder window and there it was.

Hope everyone else finds an easy solution.

try to press: cmd + space

my MBP sayed that it had to index and then came with a time that was left before it was finish. hope it helped.

I think part of my problem may be that my User folder isn't on my startup volume (I have two hard drives in my MacBook Pro - an SSD that holds the operating system and all of my applications, and a conventional hard drive that has my User folder.) This may be confusing the pre-built "All My Files" search.

AMF picks up most of my files that are on the User hard drive, so I think it looks in the User folder by default. But I've noticed that if I make a new "Smart Folder" in Finder, set the search space to "All My Files" and set "kind" to "PDF", it will only return results that are on my boot drive (the SSD). So the only PDFs that show up in the Smart Folder are the ones that are in my application folder, not the ones in my User folder.

Re-indexing Spotlight didn't improve matters for me.

I solve my problem with a Simple Reboot of the OS

Hi, it seems Spotlight takes sometime before it has fully indexed the computer. Lets see after 15 hours if I still have the same problem (i don't seen any of todays files in "All my files"...).

Bumping this, hoping someone has a solution.

I only have two files in "all my files". All my categories are checked in Spotlight's preferences.

iTunes music and iPhoto photos won't show up, because they are not "documents" in the regular sense. They are managed in shoebox applications, and don't adhere to the document model. For the user Mac OS X shows only the iTunes library and the iPhoto library as two huge "files".

Of course, in reality they both are ("special") folders, and Mac OS X only hides that from the user. So, to follow this simplification, you won't see your iPhoto pictures in the AMF list, because you are not to be concerned about the individual files that represent your photos. (Of which there may be more than one per photo, since iPhoto stores original files and edited files alongside, as well as thumbnail pictures, and metadata etc.) This way you can't accidentally mess with the underlying files of your media libraries (like deleting, moving, renaming them) and corrupt the integrity of said libraries.

Hi WaterGlobe, indexing took 14 hours for me (cmd + space) and still the files didn't show up. After a reboot the screenshots files did show up in finder again (which means they where there in the first place). Hence they should have shown up, hence this is a bug in Lion AMF / Finder.

Does anybody have experience in reporting a bug?

I installed Lion on friday, but i deleted my private folder and had to do lots of backing up and another install of Lion. In my first install AMF showed everything in its right place. After second install now everthing shows as a document, not just my iphoto/booth documents but also tiffs and psds in folders on my account. I have tried to reindex, that has not worked either, for now I am going to use sort application as this is the the best sort system for me. I also have a problem with the reading list not showing in my safari bookmark bar, another reason why I think it's an install problem. I am going to do a clean reinstall and hope this sorts the problem out.

I too am not seeing images from my iPhoto library or music from my iTunes library in All My Files, but in my case something rather odder happened. After I first installed Lion, I opened a Finder window and saw AMF... with the images from iPhoto in there (but not the music from iTunes - just one music file that's not in the library). I was happily flicking left and right through them when suddenly - whoosh! - about half of them disappeared... and a moment later most of the rest went, leaving just one. All highly disconcerting! The pix are all there in iPhoto, and if I navigate to the iPhoto library folders in the Finder, there they all are. This behaviour led me to believe that the photos should be there in AMF, but vanished, and that the vanishing was the incorrect behaviour.

However, from reading this thread, and simply from thinking about it, it makes sense that AMF does not show the files in these libraries, because there are likely to be thousands of them, which would render it unmanageable. (Whether this is explicitly documented anywhere I don't know.)

So in my case the incorrect behaviour was probably allowing those images to 'sneak out' in the first place before some higher authority in there went 'Nooo! He's not supposed to see those - hide them, quick!' - as if I was a bit too quick off the mark and opened a Finder window before it had worked out that the images were in one of the 'special' places.

Mine is even worse!

Look closely below:

What on EARTH can I do to fix this?!?! There are only TWO categories, Developer shouldn't even be there, and all sorts of file types are jumbled into Documents--including logic files, and SONGS FROM WITHIN ITUNES!

I can help you.

but I am not good at english.

so I am sorry.

anyway,

the solution is that edit your file which path is "/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/MyLibraries/myDocum ents.cannedSearch"

for example

I need to search my "data" partition.

it must be mounted in "/Volumes/data"

and do this

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<dict>

<key>FinderFilesOnly</key>

<true/>

<key>RawQuery</key>

<string>(true) &amp;&amp; (((kMDItemContentTypeTree = public.content)))</string>

<key>SearchScopes</key>

<array>

<string>~/</string>

<string>-Library</string>

<string>-Music/iTunes</string>

<string>-Documents/Steam Content</string>

<string>~/Library/Mobile Documents</string>

<string>/Volumes/data</string> ############# Import this line #############

</array>

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<integer>1396925814</integer>

<key>FXScopeArrayOfPaths</key>

<array>

<string>~/</string>

<string>-Library</string>

<string>-Music/iTunes</string>

<string>-Documents/Steam Content</string>

<string>~/Library/Mobile Documents</string>

<string>/Volumes/data</string>

<string>/Volumes/data</string> ############# Import this line #############

</array>

</dict>

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and you can find what you want to look in you "all my files".

I am sorry that I am not good at english.