How can I increase the size of thumbnails when opening files?

Hi all - this is an absolute pain. So simple for Mac to add a slider to the finder window that opens when opening to attach something to an email. But no, we're stuck with mini-thumbnails which you can't readily see.

This is what the original poster was trying to convey. The problem is the incons/ thumbnails that appear in the Finder view are small and can not be set. So when you sit with a folder with a 100 photos and want to upload 10 to a social media account or website it is difficult to see the photos you want to use.

I have found a solution which is in this post I made.

Pity for people with impaired vison Apple can not offer a simple solution.

How to adjust icon size in finder when wanting to upload images/files to a browser or social media?

While viewing that album of files go to the View menu and select Show Toolbar:

That will give you the tool bar at the3 top of the window and also a slider bar in the lower right hand corner:

With that slider you can set the size of the thumbnails to whatever size fits your needs.

pir357 wrote:

Both doesnt work.

I dont have a slider bar.

The only options I have are shown on the picture.

Right click only: sort by name, size, date.

Are you right-clicking inside the folder by first clicking on the white background to undo any selection of a file? If you are, this is what you should see —

This is true both of folders on your hard drive and any folders on an external hard drive as well.

this shouldn't be that hard. forget the open file dialog. while in the Finder, increase the icon size with with slider…

hopefully this should be large enough. then just drag the photo you want into the email.

Below is a screen shot from the view options tool on My MacBook Pro running OS 10.11.6 (El Capitan). Before I upgraded to this current version, there was a slider option in this tool but with this current upgrade that slider is now missing. The result is that I am stuck with very small size options for file icons, a deal killer for any serious photographer.

Most serious photographers use a DAM (digital asset management) application to manage their image files and they all have provisions for changing the thumbnail size for viewing.

However, if you must use the Finder then use the method I posted back on January 13 of this year (on the first page of this topic) where there's a slider bar to increase the size of the thumbnails:

In following this discussion, there seems to be two kinds of reality for those of us with the El Capitan OS : one for those who see an slider for icon size in their view options tools and one for those who don't. I did not have a slider until I ran an update. If you are having this issue, you may want to try the same.

Try this:

1 - go to the System/Accessability/Zoom preference pane and set the options to what works best for you. I use the following:

Which gives you an enlarged picture wherever the curser is located and you use the scroll and modifier keys.

Or using full screen

That enlarges the entire screen when you use the scroll and modifier keys.

That's because you're not in a Finder window but in the Mail Open File window which doesn't have that feature. So you'll have to find the desired photos via the Finder and drag it into the open Mail window to add it to the email.

pir357 wrote:

Does your story apply to Microsoft Excel as well, because I work a lot with that program and I need to insert a lot of pictures, but its just so hard with tiny thumbnails...almost crying now....

You should be able to drag and drop in Excel.

You can invoke QuickLook in any of the open file dialogs. Just select one picture and hit the spacebar. It will give you a full-screen preview. You can then arrow through the images or hit spacebar again to leave QuickLook.

pir357 wrote:

Nope, my work is specific, I need to use Insert Picture and quickly find a product picture from thousands in my folder. I dont have the time to quick look. Sorry guys, but 1:0 to Dell's account 🙂

Well then you'll just be stuck with what you see. If you can't seem to manage to adjust your workflow, find a different OS.

Hi all - this is an absolute pain. So simple for Mac to add a slider to the finder window that opens when opening to attach something to an email. But no, we're stuck with mini-thumbnails which you can't readily see.

Thanks for trying dialabrain, but if you read the thread, the point is some of us want to follow a natural/intuitive route in attaching pics to an email. ie, when writing an email, and then wanting to add a pic or few, one would expect that the procedure is to select 'attachments' or 'insert' and then go choose whatever you want to attach.

So although this is possible to actually do (and works perfectly well for documents / list format viewing) when choosing pics you the thumbnails are too small to see. And cannot be increased in size, unlike if you open Finder directly, which allows you to change the size of thumbnails. If there's no fix/solution here plse advise the developer team to fix. It's juat a matter of adding a slider to the finder window that opens in mail.

Thanks