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See larger file icons in the Search Results window Desktop
The search results in Finder cannot, unfortunately, be displayed as anything other than a list. The Column view would be, clearly, impossible, but when you're searching for an image, it would be nice to see larger icons.

It turns out that you can change the size of the icons in the search results, just like any other list display in Finder. You only get the choice of two sizes, but the large size can make all the difference when you're looking at a picon.

Choose View -> Show View Options when you're looking at the search results window, and select the larger of the two icons at the top. As with a normal view window, you can also set the font size, columns to display, and date style.
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See larger file icons in the Search Results window
Authored by: jriskin on Dec 23, '04 02:07:51PM

Who would have guessed? Nifty...



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Put Search Results into column view
Authored by: elmimmo on Dec 24, '04 05:25:09AM

Well, guess what, it CAN be put into column view. I thought I had read about it in macosxhints, but cannot find the hint.

The use of putting it into column view, though, is slightly limited. You cannot use it to browse of course, but you can use the preview column to see larger "icons" of the files than what this hint allows.

To put a search into column view just do a search and go to File > Add to sidebar (translating from Spanish). A virtual folder will be added to your sidebar with all your search results. To put it into column view select another sidebar location, put it into column view, and select the virtual folder again.

That way you will be able to use a preview column to preview images, movies, songs, etc. as you do in normal Finder locations.



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