Hi Pat, Wen creating a Finder search where you want to find anything using say, the word "banana" but to ignore all folders then use:
banana NOT kind:folder NOT must be in capitals Cheers, Stephen On 23 Jul 2011, at 09:49, Pat Wilson wrote: > Morning all > > I'm struggling a bit with the new Finder in Lion. I really miss the Today, > Yesterday etc in the sidebar and can't seem to get exactly what I want. > > I've tried to create a saved search but is there a way of searching and > excluding folders or does it only work on an include basis? > > Also, I got totally frustrated by the inability when choosing some sidebar > options to be able to click on the column headings to change the order - eg > Downloads was in reverse alpha order and couldn't be changed by clicking the > name column. Then I discovered you have to click None in the new Sort > dropdown to make the column headings clickable. I would have thought that in > any of the options, being able to click the column head to reverse that > particular sort order was normal behaviour? > > Pat > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > When asked in 1997 what he would do to fix Apple's problems, Michael Dell famously told a crowd of IT executives, "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." By the way Michael, how ARE Dell doing these days? ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
