If you use Apple Mail as your e-mail client, then you might find its Smart Mailbox feature useful for organizing your messages. As with the Finder’s smart folders, the smart mailboxes in Mail give you a quick way to access canned searches so you can only see messages from specific dates, from specific people, or in specific accounts. However, while useful, there may be times when smart mailboxes do not work properly, and may not show the contents you expect. Continue reading
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Fix the OS X Finder not displaying the contents of specific folders
While rare, you might experience a problem in OS X where the Finder will not display the contents of specific folders. When this happens, you can usually browse other folders and open files and applications, but when you try to load the affected folders, the Finder will just sit with an empty window and display a revolving indicator at the lower-right corner (note that this is no the notorious spinning color wheel that commonly indicates hangs and other problems in OS X). Continue reading
Fix Smart folders not showing proper contents in OS X
Smart folders in OS X allow you to group files and folders by a number of different criteria, including name, type, size, content, and hundreds of similar attributes that are stored in the files’ metadata tags. This feature can be exceptionally convenient; however, there might be times when your smart folders do not work properly, and may show incorrect files, show only a small subset of files, or not show any files at all. Continue reading
Fix Spotlight continually re-indexing your hard drive
Apple’s Spotlight technology is its built-in searching routine for finding almost anything you will use in your account, and to do this it will create and then maintain a metadata index for each locally attached drive on your Mac; however, there may be times when you open the Spotlight menu and always see the progress bar indicating the system is indexing your hard drive. In addition, if you open the Activity Monitor utility, you will likely see Continue reading