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10.4: Use Preview to quickly view a folder of images
Authored by: fresler on Jun 10, '05 03:54:15PM

I may be missing something here, but I've been using this functionality even before 10.4. I just hilite a group of pictures (they have to be set to open with Preview) and double-click on them. Preview opens, displaying the images in a drawer. I discovered this quite by accident under 10.3 and have found it very useful. Perhaps I should have posted a hint about it....?



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10.4: Use Preview to quickly view a folder of images
Authored by: oliverchaddock on Jun 10, '05 05:12:54PM

The difference with this hint is that instead of highlighting a bunch of images (for which you must first navigate into the folder containing said images) you can now simply drag the folder itself.

Indeed, on 10.3 when i try to drag my pictures folder onto Preview I get this message: "Couldn't open the file. It may be corrupt or a file format that Preview doesn't recognize."



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10.4: Use Preview to quickly view a folder of images
Authored by: fresler on Jun 13, '05 03:13:41PM

Ah, got it! I knew I was missing something! :)



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10.4: Use Preview to quickly view a folder of images
Authored by: Lunatic Prods on Jun 11, '05 09:36:06AM

Mmm, nice tip!

And works for me easily in 10.4.1 with Ctrl+Alt (either before or after clicking on folder of images) ... in effect, it's just taking an alias of the images folder and that sparks Preview ... and it's much quicker than selecting all images and waiting for contextual menu.

Also worth noting that it seems to override 'Open with' preference - a photoshop jpeg in a folder of ordinary jpegs opens in Preview, instead of starting up Photoshop!



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