How the bejesus did Vista do this?

[Zod]

PJ S said:

Zod said:

The preview column is NOT what I am talking about. That just previews the selected item. I mean thumbnail view of all items, something even Windows XP can do, although Vista does it much better.

Ah, so that'll be the icon view rather than column view option, then?
Yeah, been there since OS X.1, I think.
Granted some jpegs show as thumbnail, others (for whatever reason) as a jpg icon with folding over top right corner.
Still, that's what preview in column view takes care of.

All I get from that view is generic jpeg icons, not thumbnails of the photos.

[jamieboy]

Zod said:

All I get from that view is generic jpeg icons, not thumbnails of the photos.

Odd. This is what I get, running 10.3.9 on the iMac and 10.4.8 on the MBP:



edit because I spelt MBP wrong.

Edited by jamieboy on Tuesday 13th March 09:59

[Zod]

jamieboy said:

Zod said:

All I get from that view is generic jpeg icons, not thumbnails of the photos.

Odd. This is what I get, running 10.3.9 on the iMac and 10.4.8 on the MBP:



edit because I spelt MBP wrong.

Edited by jamieboy on Tuesday 13th March 09:59

Hmm, odd. I can't get it to work on MacMini or MBP. Maybe it objects to the fact that the photos were copied over from Windows. I've seen lots of complaints about this issue on Google.

[PJ S]

Right, open a folder of images, select icon view, and hit Command J.
Check the following options:
All windows
Show icon Preview

That's it - you can now see the folded-over ones as well.

Edited by PJ S on Tuesday 13th March 12:37

[beanbag]

Just thought I'd add if you want a brilliant bit of free software that organises photos in XP, try Google Picasa.

If your JPEGs have the sensor information written to them, then Picasa will rotate the photos appropriately. Additionally, once you rotate the photos (for those that don't have the information), Picasa will save the information to the file.

http://picasa.google.com/

(P.S. It also works in Vista, OS X and Linux)

Mac OS X - http://picasa.google.com/web/mac_tool
Linux - http://picasa.google.com/linux/

Enjoy

[Zod]

PJ S said:

Right, open a folder of images, select icon view, and hit Command J.
Check the following options:
All windows
Show icon Preview

That's it - you can now see the folded-over ones as well.

Edited by PJ S on Tuesday 13th March 12:37

Thanks. Will try this.