Set some hidden preferences in iPhoto 6

Feb 02, '06 06:46:00AM

Contributed by: milney

One problem I've had since installing iPhoto 6 is that I don't have as much control of the zoom slider as I used to. That is, in iPhoto 5 I could zoom and make two photos appear side-by-side in the thumbnail view, but not in iPhoto 6. So I went playing with the preferences file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, located in your user's Library/Preferencse folder ... and found the solution.

There is a parameter named MaxThumbSize. Increase the associated number, and you'll have more finite control over the zoom. However, you'll probably need to try a few different numbers order to find the right value.

Whilst looking around in the file, I found a few other interesting and/or useful things:

Have fun playing!

[robg adds: You can edit the file in the Terminal if you don't have the Developer Tools installed. Just remember to convert it to XML format first with plutil -convert xml1 com.apple.iPhoto.plist. You can also set the values directly from the command line via defaults write, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the commenters :).]

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