OSX Folders
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- epigraph
I know this makes me look like a Luddite, but how do you make an OSX (10.4) folder display a thumb nail image of it's contents, like in Win XP?
Thanks!
- GreedoLives0
open it and change the view to icons?
you can adjust the icon size in the view options
- draydog0
command - 1
- horton0
adobe bridge is uber useful if you'd like to view folder contents and do a little sorting/rating at the same time... i can't believe i used to do this with Finder.
- kalkal0
View > Options > Show pictures as thumbnails
You have to do this first.
- in_the_mix0
so this is windows?
- 2cents0
Leopard has a great way previewing files in folders through the Finder. One of the only good qualities of that bloated P.O.S. operating system.
- ninjasavant0
I think what you're looking for is something similar to how XP shows folders in Tiles mode when the folder contents is specified as images. It shows those 4 little previews. Is that what you're after?
If so then you are out of luck with MacOS. The closest thing is in Leopard if you drag the folder to the dock as a stack and set the icon to contents. But there's no parallel for the behavior described above.
- yeah exactly what I'm looking for, I have a cd with like 200 folders of jpgs, and i don't want to wade through all of them to find the ones I wantepigraph
- epigraph0
Sorry, if I tell it to show icon preview it previews all the files but not the folders. I just get the default blue folder.
- avolve0
You can do this with folders in the doc in 10.5 but im pretty sure (although could be wrong?) that you can't do what you want to do in any os x version...
- They could've implemented it in 10.4, but they had to give us a reason to upgrade...fuckersepigraph
- I don't think they do.ninjasavant
- you don't think they do what?epigraph
- the dew?ninjasavant
- give us a reason to upgrade.... ?
Spaces is handy but other than that tiger was a-ok.avolve
- ninjasavant0
I've never used it but this seems like it would solve your problem: http://www.filebrowse.com/
- epigraph0
Thank you ninjasavant but it's not free...I guess I'll use Bridge like horton suggested.
- designbot0
Yes what others have said. There is no way to preview the contents inside a folder.
The one thing you could do is drag a given folder to you dock to create a smart folder. After you do this you can click on it and it will expand vertically to show you the contents. (Ver. 10.5.3)
or switch to Vista.
- Utopianacht0
one big mistake in 10.5, is that you can't keep a folder view as you can do it on 10.4.. for example if I open a folder and change the view mode, the next folder will open in that view mode, not in the one you set as it was in 10.4...
- avolve0
^ Yea, I also don't like the fact that I can't choose to have folders in my dock open straight to finder rather than all this silly fan/grid/list bollocks