I wish the Finder could...

Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
...display thumbnails like Windows XP.



I love that view when searching through directories of images. Sure, OS X's column view's preview is nice, but I would love to have a thumbnail view for ALL images in a given folder. Its very handy.



Any idea is Tiger will have this feature?



Any 3rd party tools that can add this functionality?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 16
    hobbeshobbes Posts: 1,252member
    Well, good news. It's been in OS X for a while now (since Jaguar, I think?).



    Go to View Options, check the "Show icon preview" checkbox. Adjust the icon size all the way up to 128x128 for some pretty decently sized thumbnails.



    Voila!
  • Reply 2 of 16
    I love this feature.



    I use it on a folder that contains all my desktop backgrounds. I scale them all the way up to 128x128 and also turn on extra info so I can see the resolution of the image.



    I also do this with all my icons I download. I store them in folders and then scale them all up to 128x128 so I can see al their lovely detail.



    Sometimes I wish though that Mac OS X would give you previews of thumbnails of HTML pages.



    Mike
  • Reply 3 of 16
    Its not the same at all.



    In Windows, any JPG will render a preview, but in OS X, your files need to have a legacy resource fork atribute to get a thumbnail.



    I have thousands of images that dont have resource forks on my server. When I look at them from XP, they display with thumbnails fine, but in OS X they just show up with their creator type icon (GraphicConverter, Photoshop, etc)
  • Reply 4 of 16
    rara Posts: 623member
    dstranathan, you're horribly mistaken. Follow Hobbes' directions and Quartz will create the thumbnails on the fly.
  • Reply 5 of 16
    Quote:

    Originally posted by dstranathan

    Its not the same at all.



    In Windows, any JPG will render a preview, but in OS X, your files need to have a legacy resource fork atribute to get a thumbnail.



    I have thousands of images that dont have resource forks on my server. When I look at them from XP, they display with thumbnails fine, but in OS X they just show up with their creator type icon (GraphicConverter, Photoshop, etc)




    Shut up and do what Hobbes told you to do.
  • Reply 6 of 16
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    The shut up comment was really necessary, eh? Asshole.
  • Reply 7 of 16
    Quote:

    Originally posted by murbot

    The shut up comment was really necessary, eh? Asshole.



    Shut up.
  • Reply 8 of 16
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    No, no, that's shut up child.



    Jeez, get it right you guys.
  • Reply 9 of 16
    709709 Posts: 2,016member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Kickaha

    No, no, that's shut up child.



    Jeez, get it right you guys.




    OMG. Somebody has to have that thread saved somewhere. Classic Jack?.
  • Reply 10 of 16
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    Oh hell yeah, I have a PDF of that at home.



  • Reply 11 of 16
    Quote:

    Originally posted by murbot

    Oh hell yeah, I have a PDF of that at home.







    where can i get it?
  • Reply 12 of 16
    jbljbl Posts: 555member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Hobbes

    Well, good news. It's been in OS X for a while now (since Jaguar, I think?).



    Go to View Options, check the "Show icon preview" checkbox. Adjust the icon size all the way up to 128x128 for some pretty decently sized thumbnails.



    Voila!




    Why does't this work on pdfs as well?
  • Reply 13 of 16
    hobbeshobbes Posts: 1,252member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by JBL

    Why does't this work on pdfs as well?



    Speaking of, I wish the Finder could... that's a good question. It seems almost more a design choice than technical one... perhaps Apple suspected that most PDF were mostly text-based and previews weren't necessary? Or that a single image wouldn't be representative of what could be a multi-page document? I don't know. It'd be nice if image-centric PDFs would do 'em.
  • Reply 14 of 16
    jbljbl Posts: 555member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Hobbes

    It'd be nice if image-centric PDFs would do 'em.



    Even non-image pdfs. I find I download a lot of pdfs, and they often have computer generated names like jlowpelp.pdf or form321.pdf. If I could see a preview of them I would have a clue which ones to throw out without clicking one each one individually in the column view.
  • Reply 15 of 16
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Hobbes

    Well, good news. It's been in OS X for a while now (since Jaguar, I think?).



    Go to View Options, check the "Show icon preview" checkbox. Adjust the icon size all the way up to 128x128 for some pretty decently sized thumbnails.



    Voila!




    That is a solution, however I have the same issue of downloading some images off the web and or email attachments, and OSX saves them without the actual picture preview just the generic 'preview' icon app pic. The weird thing in PS is that if you save as " jpeg" PS creates an actual icon pic thumbnail, but if you save for web "jpg" it creates a PS icon and no preview of the actual pic, even when in the column view in OSX. Kinda odd?
  • Reply 16 of 16
    Quote:

    Originally posted by hypoluxa

    That is a solution, however I have the same issue of downloading some images off the web and or email attachments, and OSX saves them without the actual picture preview just the generic 'preview' icon app pic. The weird thing in PS is that if you save as " jpeg" PS creates an actual icon pic thumbnail, but if you save for web "jpg" it creates a PS icon and no preview of the actual pic, even when in the column view in OSX. Kinda odd?



    Not on my computer.

    All downloaded jpg's, gif's, tiff's, ... come immediately with a thumnail on my desktop . Did you check your view options in the Finder menubar (or cmd-j) ?
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