Re: How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra)

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject	Re: How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra)
Date	2023-06-09 03:10 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2023-06-09, Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
> On 6/8/23 6:59 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2023-06-09, Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>>> On 6/8/23 5:46 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>> On 2023-06-09, Doc O'Leary <droleary.usenet@2023.impossiblystupid.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> For your reference, records indicate that
>>>>> Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I discovered, of course, that I had used "[Any] of the following
>>>>>> are true".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I can't remember how I got that button to appear!  And, so far,
>>>>>> I haven't found it by trial-and-error and haven't found it
>>>>>> mentioned on any online help page or in Mac Help.
>>>>>
>>>>> With at least one rule showing, hold down the option key.  The “+”
>>>>> for each item will become a “…”, and that will add the level of
>>>>> nesting you're looking for.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, you can find this in the Finder's built-in help. Choose Help >
>>>> macOS help from the Finder menu bar, then search for "finder search"
>>>> and click the "Narrow your search results on Mac" topic. Under "Add
>>>> criteria to a search", it's step 6. 😉
>>>
>>> Yeah.  The trouble, as always, is that you have to know *what* to
>>> search for.  Since I'd been doing this by clicking New Smart Folder, I
>>> didn't think to look for Saved Searches.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>> 
>> I'll go you one better: I initially gave up trying to remember out how I
>> used to do it, and after bumbling around in the UI, threw my hands up in
>> frustration. It wasn't until Doc answered that it occurred to me to
>> search for it in the help system. 🤣
>> 
>> I *hate* it when features like this are so hidden that you have a hard
>> time figuring out how to do them without prior knowledge (and even with
>> it, if it's been long enough that you've forgotten)!
>
> Yeah.  Mac is famous for supposedly making things very easy for the 
> naive user.  But if even sophisticated users have trouble when starting 
> from quasi-scratch ... I really wonder how true that reputation is.

It's mostly true, but there are edge cases. 

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How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra) Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2023-06-08 10:12 -0700
  Re: How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra) Doc O'Leary ,   <droleary.usenet@2023.impossiblystupid.com> - 2023-06-09 00:05 +0000
    Re: How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2023-06-09 00:46 +0000
      Re: How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra) Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2023-06-08 18:36 -0700
        Re: How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2023-06-09 01:59 +0000
          Re: How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra) Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2023-06-08 19:30 -0700
            Re: How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2023-06-09 03:10 +0000
    Re: How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra) Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2023-06-08 18:35 -0700
      Re: How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2023-06-09 02:00 +0000
        A new problem: can't Save, because can't scroll, was Re: How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra) Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2023-06-08 19:34 -0700
          Re: A new problem: can't Save, because can't scroll, was Re: How to get "[Any/All/None] of the following are true" button in Smart Folder search criteria (OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra) Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> - 2023-06-08 19:36 -0700

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