My present course of to seek for a particular listing itemizing makes use of Highlight wth filters in an everyday Finder window. I add file attribute filters to refine my search to folders solely, and generally a final modified
date vary.
I am searching for a course of whereby a single keyboard shortcut can set off a course of to do that, ideally with out shopping for some business automation software program for macOS.
Present steps are:
- kind
^
+shift
+spacebar
which is my customised Highlight shortcut. - kind the textual content token I want to use into the textual content subject (eg “eBooks”)
- click on on the little
+
icon/button beneath the textual content token subject (prime proper nook) which provides a highlight choice filter (see crimson define in picture beneath)
- click on on the filter’s first
attribute subject
, await it the menu to pop-up after which choose"Sort"
from the pop-up menu. - click on on the second filter attribute subject now populated with file sorts and choose
"Folder"
from the menu.
Every time I do it today I resent this time intensive course of a bit extra. If I simply seek for the textual content with no “Sort” filter I get too many random information from the system libraries and so forth and so forth.
If a keyboard shortcut might be assign to that course of, by way of applescript or perl, nice, I am going to give it a go.
Getting ready display pictures for this query, I found a few “virtually there” options however not give up there but.
- There is a button within the toolbar (or may be added to the default Finder window toolbar utilizing right-click “customise toolbar” command) which teams information into file sorts, and a type of sorts is folders and appears to persistently checklist folders up prime of the group rankings. So they are not obscured “beneath the fold”. See crimson spotlight in picture beneath.
- I found simply now I can save a highlight search and that Save itemizing seems within the sidebar (this shall be straightforward for me to lose till I muscle reminiscence it into actuality, however higher than nothing). I can have an empty textual content token subject (null) whereas having a Sort attribute == “Folder” filter saved as a part of the search. (See crimson…beneath.)
If there’s a option to assign a keyboard shortcut to the Group information
button within the window toolbar button (1) or to open a Finder window sidebar merchandise
within the Finder then I am dwelling and showered.
Completely satisfied to attempt an AppleScript or perl however would not know the place to begin. desire to not use business software program for this small process (solely).