How to bring back "All my files"? Apparently its been replaced by "Recent" but my newly created file specifically pdf's does not appear in recents. Or can somebody post the search criteria similar to the old "All my files" setting?
This is the default "Recents" search criteria
MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS High Sierra (10.13)
Opened finder from the dock selected as recents and clicked on gear icon > show search criteria .
Selected as Kind .
Then in the next field clicked on drop down arrows and selected as any .
Then selected as documents , I can see pdf files inside it the were previously created .
Just downgraded to macOS Sierra. Problem solved 🙂
How about simply adding Recents to the sidebar
Thanks for reply. However in "Recents" my newly created files does not show up, Whereas with "All My Files" When doing emails just click attachment and then "all my files" select the file.
With the current "Recent" i have to manually find the folder and click several subfolders just to get there. This takes alot of time specially when i do alot of emails.
Yes the PDF's are generated by the "Save to PDF. (Mostly the PDFs that are not appearing is when saved from "MS Office Applications" Please keep me posted about your report. Im thinking of switching back to macOS Sierra because of this.
Barney,
Im now back to macOS Sierra. Looked at "All my files" search criteria and saw this
Can you kindly please check if applying this "search criteria" replicates the "All my files"?
I will upgdate again to High Sierra if this solves it 🙂
thanks for the reply, however this does not apply to my case. i cant see even a single pdf 😟
I never used All My Files so I can't tell you whether it replicates it or not.
It was too full of useless files for it to actually be of any value.
I can't give you the exact criteria, but here is an example of building something similar.
Couldn't find 'All My File' on Finder's sidebar
My chosen criteria is just an example, not the exhaustive list of criteria needed to replicate All My Files.
As you noted, the criteria for Recents uses Metadata to determine the files to list. If that metadata is not set, then the file is not included. Printing to PDF doesn't set that metadata. AirDrop does not set the metadata.
I haven't tested all software, but Office 2016, Pages seems to set the metadata (or the OS does it).
I have started filing Problem Reports for this issue, so I'll add Print to PDF, also.
Were your PDFs generated like that or some other software?
How to edit "Recents" to "All my files" like search criteria
