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

and I was explaining in response to your comment which was something like "never saw the point of it" (It's on page 1 and this is on page 6 so I can't see it now), how useful the facility is for SOME people.

That's why I try to quote what I am replying to.

I guess I'm now more confused. Is the issue here that all the files aren't shown or that people can't find sort?

Apple kludged up the Sort with Arrange, so it is much more difficult to sort the files.

Thank you for all your help! I, too, used the All My Files feature for reasons similar to those others have listed.

Others made similar suggestions to yours BUT you actually gave the very important instruction to hold down the command key to get the "any" option when creating a smart folder. I was looking everywhere and context-clicking everywhere. It wasn't intuitive to me. But now I know to try this as an option at other times as well. (Rather like when I told my mom about the context menu itself; she had no idea, thought it was amazing secret knowledge.)

However, I have a problem in creating a smart folder that I can't figure out. Perhaps this is not the right forum for it, but I began by attempting to create a folder similar to All My Files, so it's related.

I create a smart folder and add the criteria "kind" and include what I want to include: kind matches "any" of "documents," or "pdf". Ok, it's showing me what looks like an appropriate output.

I add the criteria "Last Modified Date" is "within last" 60 days. (This is not added as an "any" but an "and." That is, it's just an additional line in th e main criteria.) When I do this -- no matter what I put in place of "60," it shows no files.

I tried "Last Opened Date" instead, but still no files are returned.

(I have definitely both opened and modified files within the last 60 to 10000 days 😉 )

Do you have any suggestions for what I am doing wrong here? Thank you!

Had not tried saving the prefs in sidebar. Handy, thanks, Barney!

but it is unable to find images in my Pictures folder,

What are you using for criteria?

I can't figure out the "Any of the following are true" option. Could you please elaborate a bit?

Thanks Barney!

This option really dont work like the old "all My files" 😟

This is my problem too!

I have fiddled around with the criteria and fixed it. Thanks for your help!

I agree! I used All my Files every day and although Barneyhelped me to create a new search folder I still miss it.... I hope Apple brings it back

Absolutely! Thanks to Barney - that has solved a problem for me. "Recents" isn't wholly useful for what I need, but Barney's solution is.

This is awesome! Thanks to you and Barney!!

I tried what you said but no matter what I did, my recent Office docs don't show. They don't show in the "Recents" either...only PDF and image files.

Translation in English, please

... thanks again Barney - but the search solution you provided has - for me anyway - made "recents" redundant.