How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra)

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Post by Dudley Brooks
I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are true".
But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far, I
haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it mentioned on
any online help page or in Mac Help.

With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+” for
each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
you're looking for.

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Jolly Roger

2023-06-09 00:46:08 UTC

Post by Doc O'Leary ,
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With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+” for
each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
you're looking for.

BTW, you can find this in the Finder's built-in help. Choose Help >
macOS help from the Finder menu bar, then search for "finder search" and
click the "Narrow your search results on Mac" topic. Under "Add criteria
to a search", it's step 6. 😉

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Dudley Brooks

2023-06-09 01:36:52 UTC

Post by Doc O'Leary ,
For your reference, records indicate that

With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+” for
each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
you're looking for.

Yeah. The trouble, as always, is that you have to know *what* to search
for. Since I'd been doing this by clicking New Smart Folder, I didn't
think to look for Saved Searches.

Thanks!

--
Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director
Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company!
San Francisco

Jolly Roger

2023-06-09 01:59:45 UTC

Post by Doc O'Leary ,
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Post by Dudley Brooks
I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are true".
But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far,
I haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it
mentioned on any online help page or in Mac Help.

With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+”
for each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of
nesting you're looking for.

BTW, you can find this in the Finder's built-in help. Choose Help >
macOS help from the Finder menu bar, then search for "finder search"
and click the "Narrow your search results on Mac" topic. Under "Add
criteria to a search", it's step 6. 😉

Yeah. The trouble, as always, is that you have to know *what* to
search for. Since I'd been doing this by clicking New Smart Folder, I
didn't think to look for Saved Searches.
Thanks!

I'll go you one better: I initially gave up trying to remember out how I
used to do it, and after bumbling around in the UI, threw my hands up in
frustration. It wasn't until Doc answered that it occurred to me to
search for it in the help system. 🤣

I *hate* it when features like this are so hidden that you have a hard
time figuring out how to do them without prior knowledge (and even with
it, if it's been long enough that you've forgotten)!

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JR

Dudley Brooks

2023-06-09 02:30:02 UTC

Post by Doc O'Leary ,
For your reference, records indicate that

Post by Dudley Brooks
I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are true".
But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far,
I haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it
mentioned on any online help page or in Mac Help.

With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+”
for each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of
nesting you're looking for.

BTW, you can find this in the Finder's built-in help. Choose Help >
macOS help from the Finder menu bar, then search for "finder search"
and click the "Narrow your search results on Mac" topic. Under "Add
criteria to a search", it's step 6. 😉

Yeah. The trouble, as always, is that you have to know *what* to
search for. Since I'd been doing this by clicking New Smart Folder, I
didn't think to look for Saved Searches.
Thanks!

I'll go you one better: I initially gave up trying to remember out how I
used to do it, and after bumbling around in the UI, threw my hands up in
frustration. It wasn't until Doc answered that it occurred to me to
search for it in the help system. 🤣
I *hate* it when features like this are so hidden that you have a hard
time figuring out how to do them without prior knowledge (and even with
it, if it's been long enough that you've forgotten)!

Yeah. Mac is famous for supposedly making things very easy for the
naive user. But if even sophisticated users have trouble when starting
from quasi-scratch ... I really wonder how true that reputation is.

--
Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director
Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company!
San Francisco

Jolly Roger

2023-06-09 03:10:59 UTC

Post by Doc O'Leary ,
For your reference, records indicate that

Post by Dudley Brooks
I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following are true".
But I can't remember how I got that button to appear! And, so far,
I haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it
mentioned on any online help page or in Mac Help.

With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+”
for each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of
nesting you're looking for.

BTW, you can find this in the Finder's built-in help. Choose Help >
macOS help from the Finder menu bar, then search for "finder search"
and click the "Narrow your search results on Mac" topic. Under "Add
criteria to a search", it's step 6. 😉

Yeah. The trouble, as always, is that you have to know *what* to
search for. Since I'd been doing this by clicking New Smart Folder, I
didn't think to look for Saved Searches.
Thanks!

I'll go you one better: I initially gave up trying to remember out how I
used to do it, and after bumbling around in the UI, threw my hands up in
frustration. It wasn't until Doc answered that it occurred to me to
search for it in the help system. 🤣
I *hate* it when features like this are so hidden that you have a hard
time figuring out how to do them without prior knowledge (and even with
it, if it's been long enough that you've forgotten)!

It's mostly true, but there are edge cases.

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JR

Dudley Brooks

2023-06-09 01:35:02 UTC

Post by Doc O'Leary ,
For your reference, records indicate that

With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+” for
each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
you're looking for.

Fantastic! I never knew you could do *nested* Booleans. I've been
wishing for that for years ... and it was there all the time! (Or at
least since whenever it was introduced.) Now I won't have to do even
the very few elaborate workarounds I successfully came up with!

Thanks!

--
Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director
Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company!
San Francisco

Jolly Roger

2023-06-09 02:00:19 UTC

Post by Doc O'Leary ,
For your reference, records indicate that

With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+” for
each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
you're looking for.

+1 Thanks, Doc.

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E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

Dudley Brooks

2023-06-09 02:34:16 UTC

Post by Doc O'Leary ,
For your reference, records indicate that

With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key. The “+” for
each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of nesting
you're looking for.

+1 Thanks, Doc.

My new entry has so many rows (it's for someone who has *many* names and
stage names and pseudonyms) that I can't see the top frame with the Save
button ... and there's no scrollbar for the top window with all the
search criteria. (There's only a scrollbar for the displayed results.)

--
Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director
Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company!
San Francisco

Dudley Brooks

2023-06-09 02:36:33 UTC