Comments on: Leopard Tip: Delete the All Documents Search http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/11/10/leopard-tip-delete-the-all-documents-search/ Support and additional material related to how-to guides by Maria Langer. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:13:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Maria Langer http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/11/10/leopard-tip-delete-the-all-documents-search/#comment-922 Maria Langer Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:21:08 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/11/leopard-tip-delete-the-all-documents-search/#comment-922 Let me get this straight: you used the All Documents search item to display a list of all documents, then dragged those documents to the Trash? If so, no, you did not delete aliases. You deleted the actual files. They may have remained in the list because they were still accessible (in the trash). If you empty the trash, they're gone. Dragging them from the Trash to your hard disk will prevent them from being deleted, but it won't put them back where they were. The Undo command (right after you deleted them) will put them back where you belong. But at this point, I'd venture to say that it's too late. Time Machine, if enabled, can bring them back. The All Documents item is a saved search, as I explain here. It just tells your Mac to repeat a search that's been preprogrammed and saved for future use. Because of this, dragging items on top of a Saved Search won't do anything at all for you. And deleting search results actually deletes files. I'm trying to understand why you might have wanted to delete all these files, even if you thought they were aliases. If you can shed some light on this for me, it might help me better explain what this feature does in future editions of the book. Let me get this straight: you used the All Documents search item to display a list of all documents, then dragged those documents to the Trash? If so, no, you did not delete aliases. You deleted the actual files. They may have remained in the list because they were still accessible (in the trash). If you empty the trash, they’re gone.

Dragging them from the Trash to your hard disk will prevent them from being deleted, but it won’t put them back where they were. The Undo command (right after you deleted them) will put them back where you belong. But at this point, I’d venture to say that it’s too late.

Time Machine, if enabled, can bring them back.

The All Documents item is a saved search, as I explain here. It just tells your Mac to repeat a search that’s been preprogrammed and saved for future use. Because of this, dragging items on top of a Saved Search won’t do anything at all for you. And deleting search results actually deletes files.

I’m trying to understand why you might have wanted to delete all these files, even if you thought they were aliases. If you can shed some light on this for me, it might help me better explain what this feature does in future editions of the book.

]]> By: paul http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/11/10/leopard-tip-delete-the-all-documents-search/#comment-921 paul Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:43:11 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/11/leopard-tip-delete-the-all-documents-search/#comment-921 In reference to your post, in "all documents" I gabbed them (all that was displayed, thinking that they were alias's) and put them in the trash. All of the documents, is there a way to put them back ? I have gabbed the trashed documents from the trash and dragged them to the main HD window (dragging to the "all documents" didn't work). This didn't look right so I placed them back in the trash. Am I in trouble? Should I go to my room? Thank you in advance! In reference to your post, in “all documents” I gabbed them (all that was displayed, thinking that they were alias’s) and put them in the trash. All of the documents, is there a way to put them back ? I have gabbed the trashed documents from the trash and dragged them to the main HD window (dragging to the “all documents” didn’t work). This didn’t look right so I placed them back in the trash. Am I in trouble? Should I go to my room?

Thank you in advance!

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