How to create Spotlight searches to store as Smart Folders in macOS Sierra<article>
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Apple introduced Smart Folders years ago, but they’re often given short shrift compared to other macOS features. While recently responding to readers’ troubles for
Mac 911 and researching other stories, I discovered I’d mostly given up on a powerful option for saving recurring searches.</p><p>
This is partly due to Spotlight. For many years, starting with its introduction, Spotlight indexing could be spotty or crash and re-run, and searches weren’t always as comprehensive and accurate as one could hope. That’s settled down. Even on searches that match hundreds of thousands of results on my 2014 Mac mini (across both a solid-state drive and external hard drives), Spotlight performance is pretty zippy.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3165624/os-x/how-to-create-spotlight-searches-to-store-as-smart-folders-in-macos-sierra.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to create Spotlight searches to store as Smart Folders in macOS Sierra
