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"All My Files" Not showing all my flies

"All my files" only shows a few files. For example, under "music" the only thing(s) that show up are 12 songs from an album that I downloaded from Amazon.com. None of the other 12k songs I have on my Mac show up here. Also, none of my photos show up. None... at all. Also, none of my Word documnets show up. The list of things not listed goes on and non.

I checked Spotlight prefrences and I have everything checked under "search resluts" and nothing at all is listed under "privacy."

Any ideas on why things won't show up?

Thanks for the help.

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 12:42 PM

51 replies

Oct 16, 2011 2:09 PM in response to Luis Alejandro

My problem is that locked files, not visible without permission, are visible in AMF. What is the point of restriciting access?

SLee85

Level 1

4 points

Oct 18, 2011 2:37 PM in response to Jhonty

This worked, kinda hard to figure out at first...but I eventually got it to work.

Nov 1, 2011 12:19 PM in response to WaterGlobe43

I had a situation when AMF decided to show me nothing! I did a "Force Quit" on Finder while it was still running. When it restarted all my files were displayed again.

Woohoo!

Nov 20, 2011 12:23 AM in response to WaterGlobe43

I found things returned to normal when I right clicked on AMF and selected "Show Search Criteria", cleared any spurious search parameters,and then Hid the Search Parameters again. I also had to select "This Mac" rather than All My Files. After that it displayed my files. You can also use the search parameters to limit what is displayed in AMF. Good luck!

annspy

Level 1

15 points

Dec 18, 2011 12:35 AM in response to leberwurstsaft

HI leberwurstsaft,

I don't know if you still follow the discussion, but I totally agree with you:

of course the purpose of the AMF folder is not to show the pictures and songs that are properly and automatically classified in itunes and iphoto, but this is my point:

Why do i see all the images in the AMF folder, when I should not?

How can i fix this?

Thousands of pictures here make no sense.

Thanks in you have an answer!!

psbalaji

Level 1

0 points

Oct 19, 2015 10:04 AM in response to ck2875

Thanks for the fix. It worked. 🙂

"All My Files" Not showing all my flies