"All My Files" Not showing all my flies

My "Library" seems to have disappeared.Not the MaIntosh DH library, but my own library, a folder that used to be under under users/me/library

Any one know where it might have gone?

Never mind, I found the answer in another posting. Anyone else having the same problem, just search for 'library' in the forum.

'Twas made invisible in folder view.

You can get to it via the Go menu, I believe.

This is from memory as I'm not running Lion. It crashes my MBP 2.66 i7, as it does for many others. Sigh.

I think you can go to it from the Go menu, if you hold the options button.

I have the same problem as above, i only have three categories!

All my files shows .docx files but not .doc files. Odd. (I'm working with both types of files with Word for Mac 2011.) Anyone else seeing this?

JBb

Same here - .docx shows up, but .doc doesn't. I also have the same issue with .xlsx spreadsheets versus .xls.

Yep. Happening to me too. Infuriating....

Another way to find Library, or anything above the User level, hit the Path button in the menu bar, and click on your hard drive (for me, it's "Macintosh HD". That'll give you the folder structure at the highest level.

Hi, I haven't posted before but I had the same problem here's my rather long-winded solution.

Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/MyLibraries where you'll find All My Files. Then allow yourself read and write permissions and copy the file to your desktop (best to and make a backup copy first).

Create a new smartfolder on the desktop called "search", tell it to search in "All My Files" for kind = any.

Open All My Files package contents, delete the existing "search" and replace it with the one you've just made.

Then replace the original All My Files (/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/MyLibraries) with the new one.

Seemed to work for me.

Whats with this new "hiding files" thing with Lion???

What am I, 5 years old suddenly?

And even also hidding the system hard drive?

I also totally suspect Lion has a flaw with its hiding files feature.

Im finding files that should NOT be hidden, not involved with system files specs, not part of system operation, but are infact simple user files (mp3, pdf, doc, jpg, etc etc) are being auto-hidden by the Lion os, ramdomly.

If this Lion flaw doesnt cause major user nightmares, I dont know what will.

A Smart Folder with "Kind" and "Any" selected shows......nothing. Sigh....

I figured out how to fix this... 😀 only after a month of trial and error. The following solution worked on both my iMac and Macbook that had the issue where it only showed "Developer" and "Documents" categories and essentially everything was showing up under "Documents."

ℹ The Fix:

• Open "System Preferences"
• Select "Spotlight"
• Select the "Search Results" Tab
• Uncheck each and every category listed
• Re-check each and every category listed.
• Close out of "System Preferences"
• Open Finder.app
• Command-Q /Quit Finder.app
• Re-open Finder.app

Once I went back into "All My Files" I actually had all of the categories back! Hopefully this works for everyone else.

I followed your directions and I have all of my categories (but then again, I always did). However, I'm still having the same problem where All My Files is ignoring some files of a particular type while reporting others. For instance, if I select the "All My Files" canned search in Finder, it only shows about 300 .PDF files. But if I do a Spotlight search for ".pdf" (without the quotes), and then sort the results by "kind", it reports over 1,300 PDF files.

I have no idea how to fix that issue. My original problem was I only had 'Developer' and 'Documents' so I couldn't see that it wasn't reporting all my Music, Photos, etc. But I can see that I have this problem as well.

If nothing else, I have All My Categories if not "All My Files"

Has anybody got an update on this? I've rebuilt, restarted, reinstalled and it's still being a pain and not showing many of my files. Sometimes it only shows images as a category and that's all.

Also, encrypting your HD in Lion seems to corrupt it on every machine I've tried. Hope fixes are coming!!!

I too am having the same problem after just "upgrading" to Lion. None of my InDesign files are showing up. As well, the All My Files seems to be a bit different when I use to attach a file in Mail. I used to use the Recent Items all the time in Leopard and now very frustrated. Hope Apple will fix soon or give us some sort of work around.