Cover flow missing - Mojave Gallery is no replacement?

I HATE that it's missing too. Thankfully, Path Finder brings it back. That's the only way I've found to bring it back. I really hope Apple gives us an option to bring it back (even if it's in the command line) https://cocoatech.com/

This is UTTER MADNESS ... why would the MacOS team drop one of the signature features of finder, in existence since it was popularised on the iPod?? My biggest problem with the gallery view in Finder is the bottom thumbnails can only be enlarged from micro size to postage-stamp size ... really hard to see content of photos and vids.

This feature is in https://cocoatech.com/#/ PathFinder ... does Apple REALLY want its users to rely on 3rd party software for one of the most core features of the Mac?

Someone wake me up from this nightmare...

cma

why would the MacOS team drop one of the signature features of finder

The problem is that your 'signature feature' is somebody else's 'meh, I see no use for it'.

Apple build an ecosystem and populate it with mid-range good-enough-for-lite-use apps. So, Pages and Numbers are no match for Word and Excel, Photos is no match for Lightroom and so on.

If your requirements are more demanding than the Apple apps, then yes, Apple really does want you to rely on 3rd party software. That's exactly how the system is supposed to work. At this point the only Apple app I actually use regularly is Safari. Check out Pathfinder. It is very good and not just for Coverflow. It has a whole series of features that are more powerful than the Finder.

I seriously need coverflow back... As a photographer, I take thousands of pictures in RAW. Without coverflow, I have to view each photo individually. When each photo is 30MB, it takes my 2017 Macbook Pro 5 seconds to even load the thumbnail. I can't wait 5 seconds for each photo to load when I have thousands... Coverflow was the only way for me to be able to choose quickly which photos of the thousands I took to actually edit. Now I have to wait the 5 seconds for each thumbnail do know if it is a good shot or a bad shot... Frustrating.

Agree, we NEED Coverflow. Column view looks like trying to replicate the not-user-friendly PC of 30 years ago. Mac always had a reputation for being more user friendly and easier top navigate. Coverflow had been one of those niceties. This set of views feels like we’re being dragged back in time. If you have a lot of files, Gallery View and Icons just don't cut it. So sad to see Apple mimicking pc views of days gone by.

So, Gallery view gives a preview in one pane, thumbnails on the bottom,

but file info in the right hand pane and you use the left and right arrow keys

to scroll through with each step giving you a preview image and informative

file information. Where's the problem?

The problem is that you get a lot less info on the screen at a time. Cover flow is like flipping through a filing cabinet, whereas Gallery is like having a stack of papers and only looking at one at a time. Cover flow lets you easily see about 7 items at a time.

Buleohara wrote:

You obviously did not read the original post…..

And absolutely none of that matters. Apple dropped coverflow.

If you want them to bring it back, send feedback to Apple. None of us here can do that for you.

Have to agree with all the previous comments. I've just switched to Mojave and am horrified to be without Cover Flow - my preferred way to quickly scan files. I occasionally use the list mode, but 90% of the time Cover Flow is the fastest and easiest way to find what I'm looking for. The Gallery mode is frankly useless. Please restore Cover Flow ASAP.

Enough petitions and they will bring it back. They should have added Gallery View ALONGSIDE Cover Flow, and not deleted it. Apple is doing this more and more: beloved features in MacOS and Apple Apps are being removed and replaced by worse / less functional ones. Perfect example: lack of HiDPI to external 4K monitors in Mojave, which existed until they removed it in High Sierra. So now that 4K and higher resolution monitors are bing adapted, Apple cut support for them: in what universe does this make any sense?

imageWIS wrote:

Enough petitions and they will bring it back. ...

You can try, but considering the few posts here that consider this an issue

and only a couple hundred views of the topic compared to the millions of

installs already, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Time will tell.
The amount of Graphics Studios that use Cover Flow as an everyday tool is unreal. It will only take several of the big operators to flip machines to a competitor that facilitates this and Apple would start to feel it I am sure.

The amount of people I have talked to who are downgrading rather than staying with Mojave due to this is a point in itself that the new Gallery is not only rubbish but backward in technology.

I mainly work at video production houses around the country and most of the time I see editors and designers using Command + 1 (Icon View and make them larger with the slider then choose an Arrange By) and sometimes Quicklook to find things quickly.

At the studio I spend most time at we Tag everything obsessively so we can find them quickly. To each his own but I find Icon View way faster to find things even over Quicklook. Cover Flow to me is too "magnetic" and only shows a few assets at a time clearly since they tend to overlap.

Personally, over the years I've come to use use Icon View set to arrange by Date Added a lot actually, since clients seem to love to upload new assets to random folders all day long ("How about this one‽ USe THE RED in This Sweater.MP4.PNG_copy1.jpg", "What a nice tree!!1!!.JPG.GIF") without a care for organization or the cost of rights usage. ("No, we can't use a Rolling Stones song in this. Here's the Library music we can use...")

thedesignboard wrote:

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The amount of Graphics Studios that use Cover Flow as an everyday tool is unreal. It will only take several of the big operators to flip machines to a competitor that facilitates this and Apple would start to feel it I am sure...

"Big operators" use proper digital asset management apps.