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Re: Hack to search multiple folders
Authored by: ammacdon on Thu, Oct 30 2008 at 12:50PM PDT

thanks Aikinai! that worked perfectly. i used it to search two specific folders on an external drive, so i set the CurrentFolderPath array to just the enclosing folder, and set SearchScopes and FXScopeArrayOfPaths arrays to the folders inside.

Re: Hack to search multiple folders
Authored by: ammacdon on Fri, Dec 12 2008 at 1:01PM PST

also, i forgot to note that the smart folder text file doesn't like escaped paths, e.g.: the kind you get when you drag a file in the terminal:

Bad:


		<key>SearchScopes</key>
		<array>
			<string>/Volumes/external\ hard\ drive/myfolder</string>
		</array>

Good:


		<key>SearchScopes</key>
		<array>
			<string>/Volumes/external hard drive/myfolder</string>
		</array>