roekone
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Q: no cover flow in any program's open or save dialog box

I updated 2 computers to El Capitan and now there is no option for cover flow in the save or open dialog boxes. My adobe products were in cover flow mode at first but when I chose list, I noticed there was no button for cover flow any more. It's there in finder only. Anyone else have this issue? Any idea if this was done for a reason?

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 15, 2015 8:44 AM

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Q: no cover flow in any program's open or save dialog box

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  • by roekone,

    roekone roekone Oct 15, 2015 10:05 AM in response to roekone
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    Oct 15, 2015 10:05 AM in response to roekone

    Heres a screenshot comparing Photoshop to finder. But I get the same results from any program Ive tried so far including Chrome, Textedit and a few Adobe progams

    NOCOVERFLOW.jpg

  • by Joseph Delaney,

    Joseph Delaney Joseph Delaney Oct 15, 2015 10:34 AM in response to roekone
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    Oct 15, 2015 10:34 AM in response to roekone

    It does appear to be gone, but the difference between "list" and "cover flow" views really is not that big - the "preview" is on the right in list view (on the top in coverflow), you don't have the animated scrolling through the thumbnails, and you have to use the up/down arrows to scroll (cover flow works with left/right in addition to up/down). The only real loss is that you can't see all the thumbnails simultaneously (but for that, icon view sort of works).

     

    I can see where cover flow is tremendously useful in something like photoshop. Fortunately, with Adobe products you can use Bridge as an alternative.

     

    Apple may be slowly phasing it out. It disappeared from iTunes a while ago.

  • by roekone,

    roekone roekone Oct 15, 2015 3:30 PM in response to Joseph Delaney
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    Oct 15, 2015 3:30 PM in response to Joseph Delaney

    Bummer. Cover flow is faster for me to browse through tons of images when doing design work. I can just scroll and see multiple images at once when Im placing an image in Indesign or opening something in Photoshop. I wonder if Cover flow was causing problems or something.

  • by Peely22,

    Peely22 Peely22 Nov 7, 2015 4:28 AM in response to roekone
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    Nov 7, 2015 4:28 AM in response to roekone

    This is a ridiculous omission. 
    If it's in finder, it must be a glitch.  We need to lobby Apple to bring it back in in the next update.

    I'm a photographer, and need it

  • by Craft1,

    Craft1 Craft1 Dec 10, 2015 4:04 PM in response to Peely22
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    Dec 10, 2015 4:04 PM in response to Peely22

    This is just absurd!! Does Apple not realize how useful cover flow is to designers?? As soon as I updated to El Captain, poof!!  The option was omitted from all Adobe CC products? What Idiots!!! First i switched to HTC from i-Phone, and was held hostage by iMessage for a week, now this!!! Definitely considering leaving Apple all together. This is BS.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Dec 10, 2015 4:59 PM in response to Craft1
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    Dec 10, 2015 4:59 PM in response to Craft1

    Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.

     

    Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

     

    Feedback

  • by Peely22,

    Peely22 Peely22 Dec 21, 2015 9:23 AM in response to roekone
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    Dec 21, 2015 9:23 AM in response to roekone

    Anyone heard anything yet?
    I've fedback, but not heard anything

  • by videostar,

    videostar videostar Jan 1, 2016 1:19 PM in response to roekone
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    Jan 1, 2016 1:19 PM in response to roekone

    Yes this is an absurd step backward - I can't think of why they would walk this back - if the coverflow images have already been cached in the Finder (or even if they aren't, Apple could fix this,) it shouldn't be a performance issue. Too bad, Apple.

  • by pachakutek,

    pachakutek pachakutek Feb 4, 2016 1:56 PM in response to Joseph Delaney
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    Feb 4, 2016 1:56 PM in response to Joseph Delaney

    The biggest loss is the inability to sort by different attributes (date modified, file type, etc), while still seeing a visual preview of the file. List does offer the preview but you cannot sort by different things.

     

    My default view was always cover flow... so to lose this ***** big time.

  • by Solar Media,

    Solar Media Solar Media Jun 30, 2016 9:27 AM in response to roekone
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    Jun 30, 2016 9:27 AM in response to roekone

    Their response will be to upgrade to Sierra, which for many of us on MacPros won't be possible. I am so sick and tired of Apple. My Macs used to be tools for me. Now, it feels like I am a tool for it.

     

    Does anyone have the similar problem of Coverflow not working for image-type files in the Finder? Only shows generic icons for .jpg, .png, etc. Text files show, Office files show, but the one thing Coverflow was designed for, does not.

  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Jun 30, 2016 10:48 AM in response to Solar Media
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    Jun 30, 2016 10:48 AM in response to Solar Media

    Coverflow works for me in the Finder. Does QuickLook work for you? I am wondering if the problem is related.

    Also, if you do Command-J to Show View Options, do you have "Show Icon Preview" checked?

  • by jostiebenv,

    jostiebenv jostiebenv Aug 29, 2016 2:29 PM in response to roekone
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    Aug 29, 2016 2:29 PM in response to roekone

    It is sooooo annoying to not have coverflow view in any program save or open windows... I used that all the time before and I really struggle with the other ways to retrieve the file I'm looking to open. Please fix it!

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Aug 29, 2016 2:44 PM in response to jostiebenv
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    iTunes
    Aug 29, 2016 2:44 PM in response to jostiebenv

    Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.

     

    Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for improvement. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.

     

    Feedback