Geek Posted December 12, 2011 Posted December 12, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/sort-all-my-files.jpg" alt="Sort All My Files in OS X Lion" title="sort-all-my-files" width="620" height="334" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24772" /></p> <p>“All My Files” is the all-inclusive folder in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7 Lion</a> that includes, well, all of your files. It’s basically a smart folder that lists every user owned or created file, and by default it’s sorted by the files kind: Images, PDF’s, Documents, Music, Movies, Developer, and so on. </p> <p>You’re not limited to sorting by filetype kind though, and by using the All My Files pulldown menu, you can choose to sort by name, last date opened, date added, date modified, date created, application the files were created in, size, and by label, or to have no sorting at all. </p> <p>The three “All My Files” sorting options I find most useful are:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Date Modified</strong> – the easiest way to find all recently edited or modified files</li> <li><strong>Application</strong> – want to quickly see every Photoshop file on your Mac? Easy</li> <li><strong>Size</strong> – another way to track down bloated personal files that are taking up disk space</li> </ul> <p>These are other than the default setting of “Kind”, which is a very helpful way to sort a lot of personal files while avoiding the hierarchical folder structures that can develop in a traditional filesystem. </p> <p>If you don’t use “All My Files”, remember that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/01/open-the-home-directory-as-new-window-default-in-mac-os-x-lion/">you can set the New Window default to show the user Home directory again</a>, which was the default behavior in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. </p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8K40CCs0mCX3y7Vg6fV2kjRNwMs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8K40CCs0mCX3y7Vg6fV2kjRNwMs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8K40CCs0mCX3y7Vg6fV2kjRNwMs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8K40CCs0mCX3y7Vg6fV2kjRNwMs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=O0HAK6RzLVM:4DsGvnvaPr8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=O0HAK6RzLVM:4DsGvnvaPr8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=O0HAK6RzLVM:4DsGvnvaPr8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=O0HAK6RzLVM:4DsGvnvaPr8:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=O0HAK6RzLVM:4DsGvnvaPr8:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=O0HAK6RzLVM:4DsGvnvaPr8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=O0HAK6RzLVM:4DsGvnvaPr8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/O0HAK6RzLVM" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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