Creating a default Cover Flow size

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Creating a default Cover Flow size

Hi
In Finder, one can change the default for column widths in column view, for example... so my question is: how does one change the default depth for the Cover Flow view... it seems to default to about four fifths the height of the finder window which on my high res screen is unnecessarily and disturbingly big.

I've tried the usual commands and they don't seem to work.. they either don't or I'm just disorientated. Hoping it's the latter.

Thanks for your help.

Currently: MacBook Pro 17" i7 .....it all began with a IIfx., Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Jul 4, 2010 10:46 AM

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baltwo

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Jul 4, 2010 10:58 AM in response to BluePlumUk

It appears that the CoverFlow window is fixed in height; however, it is adjustable. Move the cursor under the slider and it should change to a hand, click and drag up or down to resize. The new setting is global and will retain it for all unopened windows.

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BluePlumUk Author

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Jul 4, 2010 11:06 AM in response to baltwo

Hi Baltwo

It wasn't behaving that way with me. When I dragged the horizontal bar up, only that window changed. Closing and opening new windows, they reverted to the huge proportion.

However... playing about with this... I've found that it seems to work this way for me:

Dragging the horizontal bar down creates a new default size BIGGER.

Resizing a window using the bottom right corner re-size tab shrinks the pane and creates a new default size SMALLER.

Yeah... can kinda see a logic, though I was hoping for a nice consistent cmd+alt drag on horizontal bar sets new default (same as column view). I had no luck with that, didn't work.

Thanks for taking the time to suggest something.. cheers.

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BluePlumUk Author

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Jul 4, 2010 11:25 AM in response to BluePlumUk

Actually it doesn't work that way at all... when I drag the horizontal bar down.. the windows revert to the huge size again... weird, don't know why it seemed to.. doing my tree in, no logic to me, very un-Apple.

Something that's still a 'novelty' yet to be made useful by Apple me thinks... Apple do work this way sometimes...

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BluePlumUk Author

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Jul 4, 2010 11:17 AM in response to BluePlumUk

Tad too hasty marking this as solved

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baltwo

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Jul 4, 2010 11:41 AM in response to BluePlumUk

Sorry, but it worked for me on all newly opened windows. Create a new admin user account, log into it, and see if the problem persists. If not, then examine that user's plist files (in its /Library/Preferences/) and the most recent ones should be the ones you should move in the original account to resolve the issue.

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rwross

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Aug 16, 2010 10:21 AM in response to baltwo

This is a known issue going all the way back to 10.6.0.

The previous thread was archived, but the issue remains.

Basically, you can have sized cover flow images...small (about 1/3 of window) and large (about 3/4 of window). Anything in between reverts to one of the two sizes.

It's annoying and should really have been fixed long ago.

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