Saved search for Photo Stream not working in Mavericks

And I know this most likely a yes, but you have your PS folder set up to find Kind: Images, not just Kind: JPEG right?

Good catch, but yeah.

Ok, so someone come up with an Automator or AppleScript that opens any file added to a new folder in SUB and we're good 🙂

Still doesn't work for PNGs for me for some reason.

Oh well.

Same Problem here (saved search doesn't work). After deactivating and reactivating PS on MacOS and iOS more than once, I did some Internet research. Someone mentioned it possibly be a Spotlight issue. So I forced spotlight to redo it's index by putting the whole HDD onto the privacy tab in the spotlight settings in system preferences and remove again at once.

And here you go, saved search works for any picture/folder in ~/library/application support/iLifeAssetmanagement/assests/sub. But also no actualization, so every new picture on your PS is still ignored by saved search/finder/spotlight/mavericks.

I'll try to do a automation for putting the ~/library/application support/iLifeAssetmanagement/assests/sub-folder onto spotlight privacy tab and removing it directly. But this cannot be more than a workaround. I think there is something wrong in mavericks/spotlight/finder/whatever that needs to be fixed by apple.

Funny, confirmed. I put the sub folder in privacy, immediately took it off and the photos show up. Yeah, I guess if we had an applescript that would put that folder in privacy and pull it back out quickly we would have a sort of workaround.

I have the same problem...

@Apple - Please fix.

Adding the sub folder to Spotlight's privacy list and removing it fixed the issue for me.

@Apple: Please fix this. This is clearly a Spotlight bug.

Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions.

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

Feedback

As I have written above (actually it wasn't Luciano who suggested the "solution"*g*), put the sub folder onto the privacy tab has to be done over and over again...any time you put new pictures to your PS. So it's nothing more than a workaround!

I have sent Apple feedback related to this issue, but I wanted to post a workaround I've discovered for this problem.

If you create a new "Folder Action" workflow inside of Automator, you can configure it to add a 'Spotlight Comment' to any new files added to that folder. Doing so will force Spotlight to index these items, and they will appear in the Saved Search.

To do so, start Automator and create a new Folder Action. In the "Folder Action receives files and folders added to" section, choose the

sub

~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub

1. Get Specified Finder Items
2. Get Folder Contents
3. Set Spotlight Comments for Finder Items

In the settings for the first action "Get Specified Finder Items", add the very same

sub

sub-shared

For the second action, "Get Folder Contents", check the box for "Repeat for each subfolder found".

In the last action, "Set Spotlight Comments for Finder Items", add a unique comment. I used "Photo Stream Photo", but I'm pretty sure any text will work.

The completed workflow should look like this:

Save the workflow and you should be all set. When photos are uploaded to your iCloud photo stream and downloaded by your Mac, this workflow will kick Spotlight into noticing them. You should see a small gear icon in your menu bar whenever this workflow runs.

jesstech

Wow, nice and clean. Thanks for this. It works great. Yeah, I set reminders for a month to provide feedback to Apple every day, we'll see if it does anything.

Doesn't matter where we save it right?

-roccit