Help with Viewing Photos from a USB Drive

Hello!

I really hope I can make sense of this question...

I have almost 3,000 pictures on a USB Drive. I have connected it to my MacBookPro and saved them to a folder in my iCloud account. I didn't want to have to download all the pictures to my photos.

When I try to view the pictures I'll open them up in the correct folder and click on the first picture, but it opens up in Preview. In order to look at the next picture I have to close out of Preview, and double click on the next picture, then close that one and double click on the third picture. This is going to take forever to look at all 3,000 pictures. I was hoping I could just click on the first one and use the right arrow to go to the next one, and so on.

Any tips for me on how I can just quickly click through, and not have to open each individual picture? If I need to explain in more detail I can gladly do that. :)

Thanks, in advance!!

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.2

Posted on Mar 29, 2022 12:43 PM

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Mar 30, 2022 12:42 PM in response to misspriss_mv

Greetings, misspriss_mv.

When you say that you save the photos to a file, do you mean that you saved them in iCloud drive, rather than the photos app?

What happens if you change your preferences for Preview?

“Change preferences for opening image filesIn the Preview app  on your Mac, choose Preview > Preferences, then click Images.Select an option for “When opening files”:Open all files in one window: Uses one window for all files you open in Preview, no matter when you open them.Open groups of files in the same window: Uses one window for each set of files you open in Preview at the same time.Open each file in its own window: Uses one window for each file.” Display several files in one Preview window on Mac 

We hope this helps! 

Sincerely.

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