I recently upgraded to Yosemite and discovered that Yesterday, Today & Past week are no longer in my Finder sidebar. I've looked through all the preference options and can't find how to turn them back on. Have these features been eliminated with the update? I hope not because I used them every day and thought it was something that really was user friendly and a time saver.
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
No, I have everything organized alphabetically is sub folders. The feature I'm referring to would show you everything you opened "Today" or "Yesterday" etc. Regardless of what sub-folder you filed it in.
Create a new smart folder with each of the search criteria "Last modified date is today," "yesterday," and "this week." Name them accordingly and drag them into the sidebar. See the Finder's built-in help if you need guidance.
So I made smart folders. The one for Today was set up with the following search criteria; Search This MAC, Kind Document, Last opened Today. This should give me what I was looking for, but it doesn't list any documents, even though I've had some open and closed/re-opened finder...etc. So I changed it to; Search This MAC, Kind Any, Last Opened Today. The old system would show me every document I had opened that day. What I get by using ANY is I see the APP that was used, but not the individual document. So for example, I may edit 5 documents with Pages, saving them all into various files. When I wanted to e-mail one off, I would just go to "Today", and all 5 would be listed. Now what I have is it showing me that Pages was opened, and not each individual document. So the question I have now is; What do I have configured wrong? Or does the Document option have a glitch or some other reason that it won't work as before. I made smart folders for Yesterday, Today, Last Week, and 2 weeks, and they are all behaving the same as described.
When you search directly in the Finder without creating a smart folder, do you get the expected results? Do you get correct results from any search? Are any folders listed in the Privacy tab of the Spotlight preference pane?
I have now got a couple documents to show up, but so far only PDF, and only when I save them. It used to show up even if you opened them without saving. None of the iWork or Office documents are showing up. I have done the iWork updates.
With finder open click on View in the menu bar, then select show view options.
In view option: Arrange by, select Date Last Opened
OS X Yosemite: Ways to view items in Finder windows
Did you have finder set to show by Date?
Everything else seems to work as normal. Nothing is set to private in spotlight preferences, that entire listing is blank.
I'm still not sure whether you get different results searching in the Finder than you do from a smart folder.
Yes, this describes the problem many are having. Snow Leopard search was working brillinatly and should have been made an option in Lion et al.
Finder- Today, Yesterday & Past week. Are they gone?
