| Tip 266 | Find Files Created Today or Yesterday (and More) |
Wouldn’t it be useful to click a link in Finder that showed only files accessed or created today, yesterday, or within the last week? That would make it significantly easier to find files you’ve saved but forgotten the location of.
To make this a reality, open a Finder window and hit Shift+Command+G; then in the dialog box that appears, type /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/CannedSearches. Then hold down Command, and click and drag the Today, Yesterday, and/or Past Week files to the sidebar within Finder (hover and nudge the mouse cursor over the sidebar until a blue bar appears between the existing entries). Clicking any of these sidebar entries in the future ...
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