Well, there are actually "Smart Folders" in Mail app directly too. They are just a way to merge several Smart Mailboxes much the way that the Inbox folder collects all of your different Inboxes into one view. If the "Smart Mailboxes" allowed a bit more control in their selection criteria then you would not need to have Smart Folders.
For example if you want a grouping of all unread e-mail messages from your Address Book groups friends, Interesting People, and Family that are older then 3 days. You have two choices: 1. Create 3 separate Smart Mailboxes 1 for each group, and then merge them together into a smart folder. 2. Create a Smart Group in your address book contain all members of Friends, family and Interesting people. 2. Create a smart mailbox for the smart group and unread and received more then 3 days ago. Best wishes, Jonathan On Sep 17, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Hi Rachel, > What is a smart folder? Hmm. Well a smart folder is a folder in finder, that > lets you aggregate files scattered over your disk, matching criteria you > specify. This way, these files need not be physically grouped, but you can > view them as if they were grouped indeed. A smart folder is not a real > folder. Instead, it's an intelligent search tool, of which you can save the > criteria, which is then called the smart folder. It is a feature in finder, > whereas a smart mailbox is a feature of mail. > > One use for a smart folder, just to give you an example, could be a smart > folder where you group all rtf files together. Or all pages documents, > created after a certain date, just anything for that matter. Command option > n, is to open a new finder smart folder. You can choose where to search, and > what type of files you want in it, by selecting numerous things from a pop up > menu. There are some 5 or 6 given, but a whole lot more are behind the > others, choice. To follow this example, to find all rtf files, after you hit > command, option, n, to make a new smart folder, you select, file extension, > from the large criteria table. You will see a hide or unhide button in the > smart folder creation dialog, that you can use to show this big list if it > happens to be hidden. Once file extension is selected, fill in rtf in the > accompanying text field. In the same dialog, a list of matching files will > then show up. Now you know which rtf files you have on your system, on your > desktop, or where ever you searched, and you have them all visible in one > window, without changing their location on the disk. > > Now if you are on a found rtf file, or whatever else you preferred to search > for, and you want to see where that very file actually lives on your drive, > you can bring up its context menu with VO shift m, and then select open > containing folder. The folder that the file is in, will now be displayed, > with focus on the file itself, and you can close it again with command w. > However, one painful thing for me was, how do you know the path to this > containing folder once you open it from the found file's context menu? Only > the folder name, and not the entire path, shows up in the title of the finder > window. The solution is simple. Via the view menu, simply turn on show path. > If you do that, at the bottom of the window you will find an interactable new > path item. If you Vo accross it, you will immediately know in which folder > you are looking. > > if you then quit this new smart folder window, you will be asked where to > save this new smart folder. By default you are saving in the saved searches > folder, but of course you can tick the disclosure box and select any save > location you want for easy access later. > > Note: what is stored there, is not the list of files. Rather, it is your > search criteria, and where you search. This makes the smart folder dynamic, > so that the next time you open it, any newly added rtf or other files will > also show up. Smart, isn't it? > > Hth, > Paul. > On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Rachel magario wrote: > >> Paul, do you know the difference between the smart mailbox and the smart >> folder? >> I was just wondering. >> Rachel. >> On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: >> >>> Hi Rachel, >>> That one I know, because I had the same question 2 days ago. A smart >>> mailbox is just a way to group messages together. Say you have a giant >>> inbox, but you only want to see the messages from your class mate because >>> he sends you useful attachments. Then, you can create a smart mailbox. All >>> messages you select will appear there, but a smart mailbox is meant to just >>> do that. It shows your selected messages, as if no other ones were present >>> in your inbox. Deleting a message from the smart mailbox deletes it from >>> inbox and vice versa. >>> >>> If you want to move email out of your inbox, over to another mailbox, then >>> make it a normal one. Create new mailbox. Not a smart one. Then, go to mail >>> preferences, command comma, and go to the rules tab. This is an item in the >>> toolbar of mail preferences that you can click. That is the place to create >>> a new message rule. If the following criteria are met, is the first item It >>> is followed by a scroll area. Interact, and fill in the criteria. From: a >>> special person. Or to: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Etc. Then stop >>> interacting, move on, and fill in what should happen, once a matching >>> message is found. Move it to the following mailbox: and there you have a >>> pop up button, from which you select your newly created, normal, non smart >>> mailbox. From then on, new messages that match will be moved to your new >>> mailbox because of the message rule. >>> Hth, >>> Paul. >>> On Sep 16, 2011, at 9:10 PM, Rachel magario wrote: >>> >>>> Hi guys, >>>> >>>> I have created a smart mailbox for certain types of emails I get. But >>>> instead of just being move to the smart mailbox. It just copy. 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