File Open Default View

Using PhotoShop Elements 3, I would like the 'File Open' command to open with LIST VIEW, instead of 'Thumbnails'. Have not found a way to change the default to do this.

Just another amazing problem the MicroSoft will not fix. I prefer details view every time I open a file after just opening the application (e.g., MSWord, etc.), but every time I do this I have to manually select details view. I've tried everything to fix this short of purchasing 3rd party software to do it. I would guess I have done this 50,000 times (at my job) this year alone. But do you think Bill Gates cares that I wasted all of this time? You know the answer to that question. I just purchased a IMac for home (my 1st Apple computer since early 90's), and I'll never purchase another PC that is running the Microsoft operating system...

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Are you on a Mac or PC? If the former, do you have the Application Frame visible?
Could you post a screenshot of how Photoshop CS6 looks when you first open an image and have it show at the tiny size?
Chances are you've made the main Photoshop window small, which is causing it to try to fit a newly opened image in too small a space.
I'm going to make a wild guess that you're on a Mac, and have dragged the bottom edge of the Photoshop window up instead of turning off the Application Frame, so as to be able to see your desktop.
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Someone on Mactopia said he was able to do the following:
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Thanks for the quick answer Jay! I tried the latter approach and it didn't work.
Given my limited understanding of CSS I first researched what the # signifies and found that it precedes a value from an ID attribute of an element. Which makes sense because this override would need to know specifically what to adjust.
Next I scanned the source and couldn't find an ID of portletColumnFormatter_0 the closest thing I found was a summary field (summary="Portlet column formatter table.").
Edit: Hmmm...
A quick scan of portal.bea.com shows that ID does in fact exist there but it appears that site is on version 6.5.0
Was this ID value missing in an earlier install version perhaps?
Edit: Aha!
Yet a few moments later I realized my err...our dev environment is still on 6.1.0 which, if memory serves, was missing this key attribute!
It appears my first priority should be to syncrhonize our two environments and THEN worry about customizations.
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Edited by geoffgarcia at 04/30/2008 10:04 AM

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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:33:05 -0800, [email protected] wrote
in <[email protected]>:
>John, I changed my Windows default folder view to Thumbnails and
>rebooted, but PSE6 still opens with a list of files, not Thumbnails. Is
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