Couldn't find 'All My File' on Finder's sidebar

Yes but All My Files was sorted by file size

I'm pretty sure it sorted by date modified, but any folder can be sorted and arranged however you'd like with no more than two mouse clicks. You likely changed yours to by size. The folder will keep your desired sort and arrangement.

Agree. It was a way to very quickly check your files, by type and size, to be reminded that you had a big video file you'd completely forgotten about or that audio interview from work or two old copies of Photoshop that were taking up a lot of disk space.

<semi-off-topic>Seems like I am glad I have not upgraded to High Sierra; this seems useless. I have not found a solution to my All My Files problem in Sierra itself; I suddenly got extra copies of a file after I simply used “get info” on it. Still searching!

Thanks Barney, Question

I'm not seeing an obvious step to create the label "Barney"; I see the defaults This Mac, HD512 etc

Correction;

Oh, ok, I first create a New folder, name it as I like, then Command-F

Thanks for instructions.

This feature in Finder was the only one that was useful to me and saved me from wasting time navigating through folders in Finder. Otherwise Finder's structure is a poor replacement for what Window does the so efficiently when you need to find your file and folders.

With all its advantages over Windows, this (file saving/retrieving) is one of the areas that MAC is lacking terribly.

Otherwise Finder's structure is a poor replacement for what Window does the so efficiently when you need to find your file and folders.

I spend most of may time on Windows trying to find files that I think I know where I stored them. I never have a problem on macOS.

Must be utilizing your Windows and Mac for a different purpose than I do.

The folder and file utility and functionality in Windows is much superior than in Mac. In Mac it is an awkward work around with many sidebars and saved searches, etc. manouvers just to find your files.

But maybe I will get better at Mac.

Must be utilizing your Windows and Mac for a different purpose than I do.

Well, maybe you can help me.

I drag a file onto a folder in the Favorites (?) section and it just sits there. Nothing opens so I can drop the file into a subfolder.

So, I scroll down to the bottom and drag it over a line there, but I have to pop open the drive, then a subfolder, and another, and another until I'm finally at the folder I have in the favorites and I can drop into the subfolder. Then, it doesn't close itself up.

On my Mac, I just drag the file over the top of one of my Favorites in the sidebar, it pops open, and I drop the file into the desired subfolder. Then, it all closes back up. How do I get that simple functionality on Windows?

From your description you are using your files differently than I do.

I have no use for my favorite. The files I use constantly change, I download attachments and work on them, and many other different things that Window does better for me in accessing those files with one click.

Mac has its great features that why I use it along side the Windows. But neither one is perfect.

Mac starts on a dime which makes it great to get going. But there are some very important programs from MS and others like Nuance PDF's that simply run inferior in functionality on Mac vs Windows and that's why I also use a fast PC.

In short, I like Apple products but find them lacking in some areas. I also use Both an iPhone and a Samsung S8. Now again iPhone is a great and reliable phone but still has shortcomings which Samsung S8 does not.

BTW, you might have heard that Mac will be discontinued before long, it's in the cards for apple to push iPad Pro.

Anyway, I am an engineer and not religious about any system or machine, They are all tools and get obsolete before long.

IFF—if and only if—I can attach a keyboard so that I can carry and work with it as I do my MacBookPro, that would be acceptable. If I have to type on the iPad screen, or have an awkward carrying option, I will not be happy. (design department, are you reading this?)

SallijaneG wrote:

IFF—if and only if—I can attach a keyboard so that I can carry and work with it as I do my MacBookPro, that would be acceptable. If I have to type on the iPad screen, or have an awkward carrying option, I will not be happy. (design department, are you reading this?)

You can type on a keyboard on any iPad right now. It has always been possible.

From your description you are using your files differently than I do.

I have no use for my favorite. The files I use constantly change, I download attachments and work on them, and many other different things that Window does better for me in accessing those files with one click.

So, you can't help me make Windows work correctly?

I can download and open an attachment in Mail with a space bar and one click.

On Windows Outlook I can double-click an attachment, but that just opens a temp copy that I have to save as something else. How do you download an attachment that doesn't open a temp copy?

For a while longer, we are still on Win 7, Office 2013.

I have the same experience. In particular, "recent files" will not show recent files from certain programs and will not show rendered files exported from certain programs (such as mp3s from Logic or pdfs from Finale). I wouldn't mind "All my Files" being gone if "Recent Files" worked more predictably.

As a teacher I use it ALL the time, I have a massive number of files that I use and the search is absolutely essential to save lots of time in a very busy day. This is REALLY irritating. Why on earth did they take it away? If you don't use it then just take it away from the sidebar. Grr

I agree with many of the other posts.
All My Files was incredibly helpful, and it is quite disruptive to have it suddenly taken away.

If I scanned a file or downloaded a file, and didn't know where it was saved (or didn't want to navigate many levels to find the file), I could simply open up All My Files and look at the most recent files.

It couldn't be simpler or more useful.

While you and others may not find it helpful, perhaps because of different workflows, it is clearly a concern for many users.

Thank you for proposing a solution.

However, when I tried it out and set Kind to Any (following your instructions), no files are listed.
If I switch from Any to other types such as Document or Text, it shows large numbers of files.

My preference, and I believe the preference of large numbers of Mac users, would be for Apple to bring back All My Files. If there is a performance problem on slower computers, they could set the default that All My Files is not listed/available, and the user has to intentionally choose to activate All My Files. They could provide a warning about performance issues at that time.

Until this is provided by Apple, perhaps you have other ideas/instructions that would work for the rest of us.

Thank you