Cover flow missing - Mojave Gallery is no replacement?

Absolutely infuriating. This seriously impacts my ability to do my job and has crippled my performance. I do MASSIVE data ETL's (extract, transform, load) and after each job, two .csv files are produced with "Successes" and "Errors" and having the cover flow allowed me to keep the list sorted by last modified date to group each "report" that was used with the outputted success and error files and then "preview" what the data was for, and what the errors were. Cover flow made very quick and easy to find what I needed. Now...I gotta either use gallery which, AWESOME it's in alphabetical order, thanks for making that completely unhelpful and useless, or the three column view which groups it alphabetically THEN by last modified, again completely unhelpful and useless. I'm now forced to open multiple files in Sublime Text or OpenOffice to find what I need to be able to effectively do my job.

Give us back cover flow; it's critical for not only my job, but many others that are in a similar job role/function. Look at the list of files I now have to either guess or OPEN unnecessarily until I find the file I need again.

I was shocked to see cover flow missing in finder. It was an important part of my daily workflow. It allowed a much greater ability to view a large number of pictures quickly that the new finder. I am already trying to figure out how to undo my Mojave install. Really a big disappointment.

Thank you for responding. Your solution is what I have been doing as an alternative but it is much slower. I often have 400 to 500 items in a folder and could spin by 20 or 30 at once with a small move of the mouse until my eye catches the one I need. Clicking 20 separate times just isn't the same.

I work with lots and lots of images daily and I've never used Cover Flow actually. I actually forgot it was even there. When I'm working with thousands of new images, sometimes 1000+ a day, I dump them in a folder and hit Command + 1 for icon view and drag the icon size slider to make them big enough then scroll up and down and left right looking for the ones I need.

Then I right click on the ones i need and give them a Tag or drag them to where they need to be. If you right click in the white space of the Finder window you can sort them in several useful ways. It's a bit like using QuickLook with tons of files but more interactive. If I need to see Info about a file I just hit Command + Option + i for a "live" Get Info window.

You need to turn on Icon Preview in the Finder if it's not already on. hit Command + J in the Finder and tick "Show Icon Preview"

Agreed. Coverflow is a useful tool that I use all of the time. This new feature that replaces it *****, quite frankly. For instance, I first sort the files I'm looking at in the normal text mode and then switch to the new preview mode that replaced coverflow and the files are now in some random(?) order; the file I was hoping to find by date, for instance, is now lost in the mess. So not only is coverflow missing but the replacement *****.

Bring back Coverflow!

Hi Terence,

Thanks for the comment. I have filled out the feedback form as have my staff but I am sure it won't get listened to or read for that matter.

This isn't a rant, this is actually to find a way forward that won't stop productivity in my studio. It really feels like Apple are going backwards rather than forwards.

Gallery is slower to load, the thumbnail is smaller, and no file list.

With Cover Flow I found the combo of file names, and larger thumbnail image easier and quicker.

If I needed a file to be readable I just pressed space bar

Gallery view

I can't believe this either! That's pure madness of the macOS developer team.

The only thing we all can do is to contact Apple and complain about this ridiculous change. Please do so!

Here is the link:

Feedback - macOS - Apple

Apple is not here and don't read these forums. As far as Cover Flow, it's been available for 11 years, since Leopard so it's about time it was changed.

You can send feedback here: Feedback - macOS - Apple

So LISTEN UP APPLE.. PUT THE COVER FLOW BACK and if you do changes, let them be optional. why don't you ask us artists and people who spend more hours on their Macs than anywhere else what we want before your techs do frivolous crap Like the Gallery view..

This is a user-to-user technical support forum. Apple isn't reading here for suggestions. If you want them to know how you feel, use the feedback page:

Product Feedback - Apple

Coverflow is officially gone from every Apple product as of Mojave. They have replaced it with the new view option. You have to accept this or go back to High Sierra since Apple is not bringing it back and there is no way to modify the Finder to bring it back.

I have to say I agree. Coverflow was one of the things I loved most when switching over from PC - I am amazed it is gone as the Gallery view is no replacement (for me).

I have switched to Pathfinder. I have zero vested interest in promoting it, but it is pretty good and DOES have a fully working Cover Flow interface (and a whole lot more)

I ABSOLUTELY AGREE.

Cover Flow and Gallery View are two vastly different features - Cover Flow is about navigating through data with simple and fast scrolling while being able to see multiple files side by side in a "FLOW", Gallery View is about making modifications quickly AND THUS DOES NOT REPLACE COVER FLOW AT ALL.

Besides, who in the **** scrolls left and right?????