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:
- AlbumViewLargeAppearance: default is No (false), switch this on and the album icons become larger (possibly useful if you have a 30" display at a high res?)
- ShowFullScreenToolbar: default is No (false), but switch this one, and the toolbar at the bottom of the screen in full screen mode stays visible, rather than only appearing when you move the mouse to the bottom of the screen.
- ShowFullScreenThumbnails: Just like the toolbar setting above, but for the thumbnail bar at the top of the screen.
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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