[X4U] Using Apple's Find (Command F)

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Fri Sep 1 17:15:07 PDT 2006


On 09/01/06,  Robert Ameeti <Robert at Ameeti.net> wrote:
> At 4:52 PM -0400, 9/1/06, John Kiss wrote:
>>On Sep 1, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Robert Ameeti wrote:
>>
>>>How can this easily be done? It used to be so very easy. I don't
>>>want them sorted by type of document. I just want them in an easy
>>>to use List View sorted by Date (time).
>>
>>If you don't want them sorted by type of document, simply go the the
>>Finder menu and select View>as List. Then click on the Date Modified
>>column header to sort the listing.
>
> I know how to view a folder by Date. What I don't know how to do is
> to search my drive for all files modified today and sorted by Date.
> Am I not reading your reply sufficiently?

AFAIK, it can't be done without raw queries (see "10.4: Unleash Spotlight
through Other and Raw queries" at <http://www.macosxhints.com/>. You're
probably better off using the Terminal's find and sort options.


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