How can I add extra groups to Finder's recognised kinds
presently when I attempt to group files in Finder (Yosemite 10.10.3) by kind the created Documents category creates a vast number of files including CSVs DOCX etc:
Is it possible to make this groupings more efficient, by:
- Grouping files by extension -or-
- Defining what extensions are classified where, for instance in case of the Documents category I would like for it to contain only PDFs and DOC/X-XLS/X files whereas CSVs could be in a separate data category. The developer category is particularly messy as it tends to contain hundreds of files, lot of them created automatically when working with *.tex files.
Solution 1:
Short answer: I don't think you can change or add to the defined groups. As best I can tell groups are defined on the system level, based on Apple-declared uniform type identifiers (UTI). I suppose one could (conceivably) add new UTIs by creating an app that declares them and propagates them to the system, but that seems like overkill.
However, there are a couple of options you might try:
- Group by Application: This will group all files together by the default application that opens them. It's more fine-grained than Kind, but depending on how your application defaults are set up it might not produce the results you want.
- Group by Tags: This will involve some prep-work setting up Folder Action scripts that will tag your files according to your desired criteria, but this gives you fine-grained control over how files are grouped in Finder windows.