Cover flow missing - Mojave Gallery is no replacement?

OK. I've been using PathFinder 8 for a few days now and while it does have something that looks and acts like Apple's Cover Flow, it is no replacement for Apple's Cover Flow. The Apple Cover Flow was smooth and fast. Sure, you could spin it so fast that thumbnails couldn't load in time. But scanning that fast would mean that your brain wouldn't have time to process what was scrolling by, anyway. At any reasonable scrolling speed, the images were loaded by the time they began to come into view. On the other hand, PathFinder's Cover Flow is slow and jerky. It doesn't load the thumbnails nearly as fast as the Apple Cover Flow did. Each time I take my fingers off the trackpad, to move to the other side and continue, starting up again is jerky and I often have to go back a few images, because it jumped forward at the beginning. A very minor issue that I just have to get used to, is that with Apple Cover Flow, I could also scroll with either the up and down or left and right arrows. In PathFinder it's only the up and down arrows. I'll get use to that.

Sure, PathFinder offers a substitute for Apple's Cover Flow, but a very poor one. At this point in time, I don't see myself paying the $40, when the free trial runs out. I'm now on the hunt for another app that may have a smoother and faster version of Cover Flow. I looked at PhotoMechanic and it may work for me. I'm not opposed to the $150, since I'll write it off, anyway. But at the same time, I don't want to waste that much money, if there is something that will do the job for half the price.

It would be so much better if Apple would just give users Cover Flow back in the Finder. I just can't imagine the thought process that led Apple to eliminate CoverFlow, in the first place. Well, I'm off to the Apple Feedback page again, to post yet another request for the return of Cover Flow. This is becoming a daily process.

TechnoGuru wrote:

(BTW, PathFinder's replacement for Cover Flow is jumpy and erratic and loads previews way too slowly.)

FWIW, Pathfinder is much smoother and faster if it's set to quit the Finder on launch. Or quitting the Finder from Pathfinder's preferences.

I have also filled out a feedback form.

Or maybe they just disagree with you, and the good news is that there are other apps you can use...

Or... use one of the alternatives mentioned in the thread...

Totalmente de acuerdo TechnoGuru!!!!

Yo instale mojave, y a las tres horas, volví a high Sierra.

Llevo semanas escribiendoles todos los días aquí: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html

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?????

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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!