With multiple images selected, I used to be able to hold down Option-Spacebar to get full screen previews in Quick Look. Now with Mavericks, I only get the full screen look at the first image in the batch. The rest do not view full screen. Any ideas why this is happening?
iMac (24-inch Early 2008), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Thank you -- thank you!
This dragging-the-border-of-the-first-image trick works well enough. I still prefer the old way (as do many on this thread) but you offered a workable solution and I'm grateful.
It does take a couple seconds at first but subsequently all images are as full as the first dragged-border image.
BTW, I am using a 2013 MacBook Pro Retina with a second screen. I recently installed macOS Sierra (10.12.4).
It is a 'bad' solution but after wasting some time searching the only thing I found was to use gestures ( 2 fingers ) to make it bigger. I am myself very disapointed with the fact that Quick Look ain't as awesome as it used to be, buuut, that loss was not that bad for me to let it go. Hope I helped!
Use the right and left arrow keys to navigate between the selected images and press and hold the option key again to expand these images to full screen.
But why would I have to keep holding the Option key after the initial Option-Spacebar to get the full screen previews? Shouldn't all the images I originally selected be full screen? It used to work this way in Mountain Lion. Maybe a bug in Mavericks?
RobbyBoy wrote:
But why would I have to keep holding the Option key after the initial Option-Spacebar to get the full screen previews? Shouldn't all the images I originally selected be full screen? It used to work this way in Mountain Lion. Maybe a bug in Mavericks?
I guess we need to define "full screen" and "full size" so we're sure we're talking about the same thing.
For me, full size means that the image is shown in its true pixel dimensions, and full screen means that QuickLook takes over the entire screen, displaying full size images on a black background. Further, images that are opened in full screen QuickLook can be zoomed in upon to fill up the screen either vertically or horizontally, depending on the image's format, in relation to my screen's dimensions.
When I QuickLook images (one or more) in full screen by pressing option-space bar, the image (or, the first image in a group) appears full size on a black background that fills my screen.
When I press the right arrow key, the next image in my selection opens full size on top of the same black background.
When one of the images I have selected is open on the black background in full-screen QuickLook and I press and hold the option key, that image is zoomed to fill up the screen, and when I let go of the option key, the image zooms back out to its full size.
Alternatively, and if this option is enabled in System Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom, I can hold the control key down and use scrolling gestures to zoom in and out of images open in full screen QuickLook.
That is, as far as I know, QuickLook's expected behavior.
You don't have to press Option-Spacebar just the Spacebar ( in reply to RobbyBoy), and it does not work anymore on Maverick (pressing and holding the option button)
Still having this issue. It used to work fine up until Mavericks. I select multiple images in Finder. I hit Option-Spacebar to go to full screen Quicklook. The images display in a slideshow fashion, but only my first image is displayed full screen. All the rest of the images are regular size.
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.
On my computer, the first two images are in "full screen" whereas the remaining images are small (with a black background), unless I hold the option key (which enlarges the image to full screen).
Has no one found a way to make Quick Look in Mavericks behave the way it worked previously -- when going full screen on the first image made all of the subsequent images full screen automatically?
well... NOT fixed with 10.9.2. In fact, the trick of using the option key to zoom after switching jpgs now not working either. Jeez. waytogo guys.
cb
Christian Bocher wrote:
well... NOT fixed with 10.9.2.
Well, instead of going full screen, I am able to expand the picture to cover practically the full screen (just by the usual procedure of dragging the borders) and then the following pictures will also be expanded to that size when moving back and forth using the arrow keys.
I think this is the same behavior from past versions. For me is good enough.
Holy crap... newbartleby got us a tad closer to a solution.
'If' you first stretch out the quick look window to full screen and 'then' switch over to the full screen (blackened BG) mode, the jpegs will then appear full screen. One little xtra step at the start, but better than having to hit option for every pic. Still a clunker, but much better. Thanks for triggering the idea NB.
cb
Christian Bocher wrote:
'If' you first stretch out the quick look window to full screen and 'then' switch over to the full screen (blackened BG) mode, the jpegs will then appear full screen.
My pleasure.
But there's something I don't get from your tip. If you go full screen, which keys do you use to browse the pictures back and forth? When I go full screen no key seems to work, certainly not the usual arrow keys.
Yes! This works just fine for me until they come up with a fix!
yeah, that's sort of a glitch I guess. I have 2 monitors... so the second one has my finder window of files open. You have to click back to it to scroll (up/down arrows) That's how it used to work as well.. back before they kept breaking it. You still had to click back to the finder window. (full screen stays in effect on main monitor)
cb
Problem with full screen Quick Look preview
