EagleFiler 1.4 brings in new interface options
C-Command has released v1.4 of EagleFiler, its organizational software. The app is used to archive files such as images, web pages, PDF files and word processor documents; these files can then be organized into folders, and given tags or notes that aid in later search functions. The v1.4 update introduces the concept of custom smart folders, which add items automatically based on user-defined cr...
published on Tuesday, the 14. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
Journler Folder/Tag Hierarchy 1.0
Assumptions: The script makes two important assumptions: (1) that a front-ranked folder contains no more than two internal nestings, (i.e., that a folder inside a front-ranked folder can itself contain another folder, but the innermost folder may contain any folders) or those farther 'in' will be missed, and (2) that all folders in your hierarchy of folders have *unique names*. It should be understood that Journler returns 'keyword' for conditions that appear as 'Comment' in its entries. A note on Smart Folder Conditions: When setting the conditions for a smart folder you can enter more than one filter condition for individual properties of an entry to go there and these settings don't have to be clustered by property as tags can be but need not be; they can be entered one at a time. The getConditions handler at the end of this script does not attempt to collect your conditions into groups by the same entry property if several filter statements are included for the folder; it merely finds them and returns them in the order in which they were entered in the editing drop-down sheet for the designated smart folder and multiple tags are listed as separate items whether they are or not. Finally: If tags are of the form 'not X', then they appear in the listing as separate 'not ' and 'X'. This is a known bug.
published on Monday, the 22. September 2008, scriptbuilders
Make Spotlight results easier to read
By default when viewing a Spotlight "all results" window or a Smart Folder or Search, the view is set to "icon view" and the file names are truncated, making it very hard to find the exact file you want. You can switch the search results to "list view" but you may find that the setting doesn't stick. Well, there's good news. Under Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, there's a way to make the view settings for all Smart Folders and the "All Results" search window stick.Open the Finder.Under "Search for" in the sidebar, click on one of the search items (for example, All Documents). (If you don't have any smart folders there, just do a Spotlight search and choose Show All.)Switch the view to "List view" or whatever view you are comfortable with.In the menu bar, click View > Show View Options, or press Command-J on your keyboard to open the View Options windo...
published on Monday, the 18. August 2008, macosxhints
10.5: Easily create Quick Look viewable log file aliases
Here's an easy way to keep an eye on console log files. Launch Console.app, then drag any of the log files you'd like to monitor from the sidebar to your desktop. This creates an alias to that log file, which you can then easily access by double-clicking it. For even faster access, though, you can use Quick Look on the alias -- just select it and tap the Space Bar, and up comes a Quick Look window of that log file.[robg adds: You can only drag files from the Log Files section of the sidebar, not the Log Database Queries section -- these are more like Smart Folders for log files.]
published on Wednesday, the 25. June 2008, macosxhints
10.5: Avoid an unread message count iisue in Mail
In 10.5.2, Mail tends to often not show a count for unread emails in folders and sub-folders, especially after a reboot or relaunch caused by a system freeze or crash.The workaround is very easy: create a new Smart Folder with the only rule being Message is unread. This folder will contain all unread messages from all folders, and also show the name of the messages' parent folder in the Mailbox column. For whatever reason, the Smart Folder count will remain visible and accurate, even after a relaunch of Mail.[robg adds: I can confirm this problem exists, as just this morning I had to force quit Mail. I had a dozen or so unread messages in various mailing list folders, but none showed as having unread messages after a relaunch. My Smart Folder, though, had an accurate count icon, so I was saved having to dig through the various folders to find the new messa...
published on Monday, the 7. April 2008, macosxhints
10.5: Avoid an unread message count issue in Mail
In 10.5.2, Mail tends to often not show a count for unread emails in folders and sub-folders, especially after a reboot or relaunch caused by a system freeze or crash.The workaround is very easy: create a new Smart Folder with the only rule being Message is unread. This folder will contain all unread messages from all folders, and also show the name of the messages' parent folder in the Mailbox column. For whatever reason, the Smart Folder count will remain visible and accurate, even after a relaunch of Mail.[robg adds: I can confirm this problem exists, as just this morning I had to force quit Mail. I had a dozen or so unread messages in various mailing list folders, but none showed as having unread messages after a relaunch. My Smart Folder, though, had an accurate count icon, so I was saved having to dig through the various folders to find the new messa...
published on Monday, the 7. April 2008, macosxhints
10.5: Use a spring-loaded Path Bar in Smart folders
One advantage of the Path Bar in the Finder is that it supports drag and drop. This is great for moving files up a folder level, or to other folders within the selected file's current path. To move a file to a folder outside of the current path, however, is more tedious -- that's because the Path Bar in regular Finder windows is not "spring loaded," so hovering over it won't pop up a new window pointing to the targeted folder. The exception to this is Smart Folders. For whatever reason, the Path Bar in a Smart Folder is spring loaded; you can open new Finder windows by drag-hovering over a folder on the Path Bar.
published on Monday, the 3. March 2008, macosxhints
10.5: A tip on location-based Smart Folders in 10.5
After installing Leopard, I noticed a missing feature with Smart Folders: I didn't see any GUI-based method for changing the location (path) for the Smart Folder function. In Tiger, there's an "Other" button in the toolbar which allowed for the specification of a path -- but that was removed in Leopard. After some digging, though, I realized the problem: I was using the File » New Smart Folder menu item to build my searches. Using the menu item, the only options for search location are the computer, the user's home folder, and the Shared folder. However, if I use File » Find (Command-F) instead, then the Smart Search comes up with default search locations of the computer, the currently-selected Finder folder, and the Shared folder. So in order to search a specified location in Leopard with Smart Folders, you must use Command-F to start the search; the menu item is ba...
published on Friday, the 8. February 2008, macosxhints
Repair broken full-message search in Mail
Occasionally in both Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5, Mail may no longer be able to search message body contents using the small search filter box in the top right of the application. This can be very painful if you have a lot of email, even if you have set up many filters and folders, and even more so if you make use of the Smart Folder features. Symptoms: Searching for a word that clearly appears within the body of a message returns 0 results. Selecting From, To or Subject as a specific search criteria will yield results for their respective fields, but Entire Message will not. The reason that you can search From, To, and Subject is that those searches do not use Spotlight, while Entire Message is powered by Spotlight. So if you've disabled Spotlight, then you've disabled full-text email searching. Keep in mind that Spotlight indexes what it considers whole words and will only match using the left-most prefix -- searching for amp will match the...
published on Friday, the 8. February 2008, macosxhints
Automatically file email in Mail based on sender's domain
While I'm a huge fan of Smart Folders in Mail, I've possibly been abusing them and not filing my mail at all. Once I had around 10,000 messages in my inbox, I decided that it was time to do something about it. Ideally, I'd have multiple sub-folders, such as Clients and Vendors, and then in these folders, I'd have Client Name A, Client Name B... and Vendor Name A, Vendor Name B, etc. Sorting through 10,000 emails and manually moving them wasn't my idea of fun -- even on a cold, rainy afternoon. Neither was creating a slew of individual rules for something like If from contains clientname.com then move message to mailbox Client Name. This seemed like a job for AppleScript! As my script-fu isn't as good as I would like it, I've resorted to having a single Sorted folder, and then within that are folders named with the relevant domain name -- eg clientname.com. Here's the script: ...
published on Wednesday, the 30. January 2008, macosxhints