Preview displaying file size feature is missing

There is a way for you to do what you want. It is different though.

1. Open the file in preview. In the top center just to the right of the file name click the little down arrow and lock the file. This will prevent auto updating. Then click on duplicate.

2. Use the duplicate file to make any changes and close the original.

3. At this point you can use tools to resize the file in the same format or click the red dot in the upper right to close the file and save it in the format and folder you select. From here you can open that file you just saved and use tools to resize it.

I understand you want to do things your way. Unfortunately your way is no longer possible with Lion. I was just trying to give you a way to get the same results even though the method is different.

Count me in for wanting the file size back in preview - I use it to decide whether to use png or jpg as there is often a substantial difference and which one is smaller varies just about as much. Typically I'm using this to convert grab tiffs to something small to mail to someone and the smaller the better...

Need this feature big time. Has always been present in every version of Preview until now. I need to use it EVERY TIME I manipulate an image in Preview.app

" ... I was just trying to give you a way to get the same results even though the method is different. ..."

The "results" we need is to see the file size live while we adjust jpeg quailty so we can, for example, create an image with a maximum 100kb file size for uploading to the web when we want to minimize bandwidth on a web page. File size and image qualtiy are directly related; we want to see the image quality and the file size at the same time to determine if it's acceptable.

Your "way" does not do this, unless you expect us to save the file a half dozen times at different JPEG compression levels, open them one by one and then check the file size.

That apparently is "the way to get the same results" with the new verion of Preview and ML's totally useless New Document Model. It's a document model for children and grandmothers, not experienced computer users.

Preview.app is now unusable to me except as maybe a slide show app and I need to look for another simple app for simple graphics changes. May as well delete the thing; it's useless as is since any substitute will also be able to do slide shows.

Since Preview.app is now useless anybody have a suggestion for a simple graphics app that will show live file sizes when saving in another format? I can't believe Apple removed this feature but I can't wait for them to realize thier mistake and fix it.

I copied the Preview (and a library it requires - I forget which one now, but it'll tell you ;-) ) from a Snow Leopard system and it works fine. I had to rename it to keep updates from trashing it, but it gives me all the old functionality again.

I might be able to extract Preview from my Snow Leopard Server install DVD. Would be awesome if you can give the filename of that support library.

I think I need to move to Lightroom, even though I am not a fan of Adobe's upgrade pricing structure and their lack of support for legacy versions with new OS upgrades. Apeture is out of the question; it uses the same cryptic file storage system as iPhoto, which caused me to lose a lot of work when failing RAM began corrupting a FileVault volume.

iPhoto refused to open the files, because the metadata was broken, so they could not be exported to be recovered. The files themselves were for the most part recoverable, but actualy finding them was a headache. That meant manually hunting them down ... weeks of work, and I eventually gave up on a lot of it. I will never use an app that buries files in it's own multi-directory mess again.

All the people who love this new Document Model ... well, just wait until your RAM starts to fail. May never happen. But Lord Help You when it does. You'll lose something, possibly everything.

I only have one Lion and it's already fixed, but just copy over Preview and run it - it'll complain about the missing library (though you may have to look in /var/log/system.log or kernel.log to see the complaint).

Thanks, will do. Can't see or find a way to mark your post helped or solved; if I figure that out you get points.

Extracted Preview v5.0 from my Snow Leopard Server Install disk (OSX 10.6x) and tried to launch it, but I get a dialog "You can't use this version of Preview5.app [I renamed it] with this version of the Operating System".

Maybe only the Lion verison works as an alternate install.

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If you ever look for an alternate carrier, it's helpful to know that Rogers' network is separate from everyone else's (Telus, Bell, SaskTel, MBTel). Those 4 share towers Canada-wide, so if for example you were on Bell then you use Telus towers in BC. If you're on Rogers, you can only use Rogers towers which are far less numerous outside southern Ontario.

I've moved towards using alternate apps instead of Preview. Will be installing Photoshop Elements 11, Adobe Lightroom 4. Too bad that I can't use a quick and simple app like Preview for quick resizing and jpeg conversion, but there you go. Apple doens't leave me much choice with the broken version that comes with Mountain Lion.

That's weird - must have something to do with getting it off the install disk. I rsync'd Preview.app (Version 5.0.3 (504.1)) from my old imac to the new one, and it's working fine (after copying the library also). Hmmm, your profile says you're on Mountain Lion - perhaps this hack won't work with that, only Lion. In which case I'll definitely make a point of not downgrading to Mountain Lion - Lion was bad enough.

I suspect, but don't know for sure, that the version of Preview that comes with 10.7x is 64-bit compatible. The version in Snow Leopard is definitely a 32-bit only application.