AndyD

Hi Deanishe thanks for the explanation. You suggested moving mail to ~/Library . Is there something special about that directory? It seems I will still need spotlight to index these files else search in outlook will not work Kind regards Andy

Happy new year. I have a problem creating a filter I want to create a set of file filters that make it easy for me to find files created today, changed today, changed yesterday. Initially I tried to create spotlight saved search. (this used to work in older version of Mac OS) The problem with using spotlight search is I use microsoft outlook to read mail. It creates a ton of file in "~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data/“ Spotlight search does not provide a way for you to prune results under a directory. You can go to setting spotlight private and add this directory however that prevents spotlight from indexing these files. Outlook is not longer able to search your email. I called apple support and they confirmed my analysis. Very sad. I am hoping to do some that is the sort of like the command bellow using Alfred $ find ~ -daystart -ctime 0 –print | grep –v Microsoft Unfortunately I could not find an attribute for working with paths. You get the folder name but no path info $ mdls . _kMDItemOwnerUserID = 504 kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2017-10-27 22:32:32 +0000 kMDItemContentCreationDate_Ranking = 2017-10-27 00:00:00 +0000 kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2017-10-27 22:32:32 +0000 kMDItemContentType = “public.folder" kMDItemDisplayName = "MusicTrainerCommonFramework" Kind Regards Andy