Icon size slider missing in standard folders

Is there any way to enable the missing Icon size slider in all folders? This slider is present on the Path Bar in Spotlight search folders (like Today) and VERY USABLE when you work with images. You can set a LARGE Icon Preview size temporarily (much larger compared to what view options window permits), select the image you need than set it back to smaller one. But only in spotligh. Is there any solution for this problem?

I reported this back in February and then again last night. My call was escalated to a specialist who connected remotely to my desktop to see the behavior since none of their computers were having that issue. After seeing the slider not working on my machine, he suggested that I create a temporary partition and install a fresh copy of Lion and see if the issue persists. After installing a fresh copy of Lion, I was still having the slider issue and reported back to the specialist via e-mail. I will know more when I hear back from the person tomorrow.
Also, there is another issue with Lion that people haven't mentioned but the Quick Look feature doesn't work all the time. Files wouldn't render and bringing up Quick Look the 2nd time on the same file does render correctly but then if you use the arrow keys to move between other files, the Quick Look doesn't update with the new file that is selected. Additionally, PDF files with multiple pages also doesn't render or it will render the 1st page but the other pades remain blank with the circular loading icon on them.

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Since the installaton of Lion, the icon size slider on the bottom right of a folder containining photos doesn't have any effect on the size of the icons. It seems to work on and off, but I can't figure out what "settings" I am missing.
Does anyone have a clue why the slider works sometimes, and sometimes doesnt?

I reported this back in February and then again last night. My call was escalated to a specialist who connected remotely to my desktop to see the behavior since none of their computers were having that issue. After seeing the slider not working on my machine, he suggested that I create a temporary partition and install a fresh copy of Lion and see if the issue persists. After installing a fresh copy of Lion, I was still having the slider issue and reported back to the specialist via e-mail. I will know more when I hear back from the person tomorrow.
Also, there is another issue with Lion that people haven't mentioned but the Quick Look feature doesn't work all the time. Files wouldn't render and bringing up Quick Look the 2nd time on the same file does render correctly but then if you use the arrow keys to move between other files, the Quick Look doesn't update with the new file that is selected. Additionally, PDF files with multiple pages also doesn't render or it will render the 1st page but the other pades remain blank with the circular loading icon on them.

How do I turn off and on the icon size slider bar at the lower right status bar of a folder window.

I have been trying for days to help a friend with a new iMac to turn on the icon size slider bar that on my iMac appears at the bottom of ever folder when it is open when in the "view" > "icon" mode. I cannot find anything that discusses this slider bar. I can turn this status bar off and on on both my machine and my friends machine, but I cannot turn off or on the slider on either machine.

This did not help. I am a Mac User since 1984 and generally I am never stymied buy the Mac OS, but this one has me. I can open and close the lower status bar, as you described, and that works fine for me because I have the icon slider bar already there and it works fine; however when I open the lower status bar on my friends machine there is no icon size slider bar, and I can't seem to find out how to get it there, as it is on my machine or at all. The icon size can be controlled from the View menu, but as a photographer, it is really handy to have it at the bottom of the folder window. Thanks for trying.

Impossible to see the Icon Size slider

Hi
I have installed SL on Leopard and I was expecting to see Icon Size sliders on each finder window and there are none. Is that a bug or is there a way to activate that feature ?
Thanks in advance

Yes I just got that answer from another forum. Thank you so much for your help

Just got lion and where the heck is the icon size slider in finder?

The only thing that made me upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard was the every present icon slider in thumbnail view, allowing you to instantly make the icons bigger. I was annoyed that it Leopard I could only do it for results of a search, so I had to constantly perform fake searches to be able to see my icons at a decent size.
But now in Lion (Day 2) it's definitely not there by default. I don't even see it when I search. Please told tell me Apple took a step backward and removed something useful? Please tell me that it's hidden in a setting somewhere, right? It'd be like getting a new car with no cupholders!

In the Finder's View menu select Show Status Bar. The slider should appear in the status bar as before

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Ben

Ben,
>(I'm dragging pictures to it)
I had missed that earlier. The icons I was referring to in my previous post:
>The size of the icons on that panel on my machine are
very
large
are
folder
icons, not
image file icons. I now see that you would like to have larger thumbnails of your image files on your Favorites panel.
I have never, ever put anything other than folders there, and it never occurred to me that anyone else would. Obviously, I was wrong.
Obviously this clarification doesn't help at all with your problem, but I wanted to apologize in case I misled you win my earlier post.

Adjusting and "Synchronizing" Icon Size

The standard icon size for files on the desktop and in windows is 48x48. However, some of the folders that I copied over from my old computer has a smaller size of icons (I think 36x36). Is it possible to set the size of every icon in every window on my computer at the same time (like synchronizing the icon size across the whole computer)? Or do I have to adjust the icon sizes in each window individually?

If you select a Finder window and then show the view options (cmd-j) there's a radio button at the top of that dialog that lets you apply changes to all windows.

Finder icon size

I would like to set my finder's icon size to be a consistent size for all folders. I tried setting the desired size in a folder and then selecting "Use as defaults" but this does not seem to propagate the icon size change to all folders.
What am I missing?

ba747heavy wrote:
I would like to set my finder's icon size to be a consistent size for all folders. I tried setting the desired size in a folder and then selecting "Use as defaults" but this does not seem to propagate the icon size change to all folders.
What am I missing?
clicking on "use as defaults" should have done it. if that does not work then either finder preferences are corrupt or .DS_store files in some folders are corrupt as macjack suggested. you seem to have tried resetting your finder preference already. i would try again. delete the file homedirectory/library/preferences/com.apple.finder.plist, control-option-click on finder in the Dock and choose "relaunch". if that does not help try zapping all .DS_Store files, not just one. This can be done using Onyx for example.

IMAP account "standard folders"

I've been following another Mail thread about IMAP folders that highlights my own confusion about the expected behavior while creating & maintaining an IMAP account.
Background: I created an AOL IMAP account in Mail, using the settings I found online for account creation. (There was no indication of a need for, nor have I entered, anything in the IMAP Path Prefix field.) This created an "AOL IMAP" inbox (in the inbox parent) & an "AOL IMAP" account group mailbox with (@) icon, containing four subfolders named as follows: Sent Items, Saved, Spam, & VOICEMAIL. There were no other mailboxes created by creating this account (no "AOL IMAP" mailbox in Mail's "Sent" parent or in its "Drafts" one.)
It is my understanding that the four subfolders already exist on AOL's servers for any AOL subscriber. They are all visible using AOL's webmail interface, although the AOL client software for OS X (unlike the Windows one) allows direct access only to Sent Items, which it labels "Sent Mail." (There is an "Old Mail" tab, but it is in effect only recently read "inbox" mail, & has nothing to do with "Saved Mail," which the AOL client doesn't support.)
All four of these subfolders are supported by Mail.app. However, since all are created as subfolders in the 'group account' I gather from the referenced & other Discussions topics, none are not recognized as what is sometimes referred to as "standard folders" ... which I take to mean a set of mailbox names Mail knows to use for a particular purpose.
So, here is question #1: is this right? Does Mail come with a set of names it expects IMAP servers to use for sent mail, deleted mail (a.k.a Trash), junk mail, etc? Alternately, is there a standard for such things, or does Apple (for example) just include the .Mac mailbox names & expect the user to make any changes for other IMAP conventions?
I'm aware of the "Use This Mailbox For" function in Mail. However, this appears to be a one shot, one way deal: once you select one of the use options for a mailbox in an account, you cannot undo the choice. (IOW, there is no "none" choice.)
This leads to question #2: Is here a simple way to undo this?
AOL, possibly among others, has its own way of handling things like Spam & deleted items, so there isn't necessarily a direct correspondence with Mail's Junk & Trash mailboxes. Thus, I have no idea if Mail's 'use for' function would cause any problems if applied to them.
Question #3: Does anyone have any insights regarding this?
I would like to have a Mail trash mailbox that corresponds to AOL's version (which is a sort of grace period holding tank similar to Trash, except that AOL controls how long items stay in it before deletion from its servers). problem is, there is nothing like that that appears in Mail, either under the group account or elsewhere.
Question #4: Is there any way to create such a folder, or should one have been created in Mail's main Trash mailbox for this account by the app itself?
I just recently used the 'use for' function to tell Mail to use the AOL "Sent Items" originally in the AOL group account for mail sent from that account. This resulted in the mailbox being moved into Mail's main "Sent" mailbox & renamed "AOL IMAP." So far, so good, but leads to
Question #5: Is this what is supposed to happen?

(There was no indication of a need for, nor have
I entered, anything in the IMAP Path Prefix field.)
This is correct. You don't need anything to be put there.
This created an "AOL IMAP" inbox (in the inbox parent)
& an "AOL IMAP" account group mailbox with (@) icon,
This is expected behavior.
It is my understanding that the four subfolders
already exist on AOL's servers for any AOL subscriber.
That's probably the case. Mail certainly didn't create them by itself.
All four of these subfolders are supported by Mail.app.
Not sure what you mean here.
However, since all are created as subfolders in the 'group
account' I gather from the referenced & other Discussions
topics, none are not recognized as what is sometimes referred
to as "standard folders" ... which I take to mean a set of
mailbox names Mail knows to use for a particular purpose.
Correct. The fact that they appear in the account group means Mail isn't using them for any predefined meaning. And the reason is that they don't have the same name that Mail uses for them by default.
So, here is question #1: is this right?
Yes.
Does Mail come with a set of names it expects IMAP servers to use
I don't think Mail expects anything. It just creates the folders it uses by default if they aren't already there, and ignores the rest.
is there a standard for such things,
There is no standard, each server can do whatever it wants.
or does Apple (for example) just include the .Mac mailbox names &
expect the user to make any changes for other IMAP conventions?
Yes. And these names predate .Mac, actually. The same names are used by the *.mbox folders within any POP account folder in ~/Library/Mail/.
I'm aware of the "Use This Mailbox For" function in
Mail. However, this appears to be a one shot, one way
deal: once you select one of the use options for a
mailbox in an account, you cannot undo the choice.
(IOW, there is no "none" choice.)
This leads to question #2: Is here a simple way to undo this?
There has always to be a mailbox for each purpose (even if it has not been created yet), either stored locally or on the server. You cannot de-assign a folder for a standard behavior without telling Mail which other folder should be used instead -- by doing Use This Mailbox For on another mailbox or by telling Mail to not store those messages on the server, for example.
AOL, possibly among others, has its own way of handling
things like Spam & deleted items, so there isn't
necessarily a direct correspondence with Mail's Junk &
Trash mailboxes. Thus, I have no idea if Mail's 'use for'
function would cause any problems if applied to them.
Neither do I. Try it.
Question #3: Does anyone have any insights regarding this?
I don't know much about AOL myself. According to this article:
http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/applemail.html
it seems that you must uncheck the Store messages on the server options (except for Trash), in order to be able to use AOL with Mail, but the problem could very well be just that AOL doesn't allow Mail to create new folders on the server, yet you can still tell Mail to use the ones created by AOL.
I would like to have a Mail trash mailbox that
corresponds to AOL's version (which is a sort of
grace period holding tank similar to Trash, except
that AOL controls how long items stay in it before
deletion from its servers). problem is, there is
nothing like that that appears in Mail, either under
the group account or elsewhere.
I have the feeling that Mail is already doing what you want, and the reason you cannot see that folder is because the name used by AOL is the same as the one used for Mail (Deleted Messages), and thus, Mail has already been using that folder for that purpose since the beginning.
Question #4: Is there any way to create such a
folder, or should one have been created in Mail's
main Trash mailbox for this account by the app itself?
In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/IMAP-AOLaccount/. Do you see a Deleted Messages.imapmbox folder there? If yes, and that folder does not appear in the account group in Mail, then Mail is already doing what you want.
I just recently used the 'use for' function to tell
Mail to use the AOL "Sent Items" originally in the
AOL group account for mail sent from that account. This
resulted in the mailbox being moved into Mail's main "Sent"
mailbox & renamed "AOL IMAP." So far, so good, but leads to
Question #5: Is this what is supposed to happen?
Yes.
Regarding my #5 issue, I just noticed a new local
folder in Mail I assume was a result of choosing to
use "Sent Items" in the AOL IMAP account mailbox.
This mailbox is named (not surprisingly) "Sent
Messages (AOL IMAP)" & exists at the root mailbox level.
This is the folder Mail was using to store sent messages locally instead of on the server (when Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors > Store sent messages on the server was not checked).
Problem is, the local "Sent Messages (AOL IMAP)"
mailbox doesn't contain any messages I sent from the
AOL account after I set Mail to use the "Sent Items"
mailbox for mail sent from that account.
Nor should it. You've told Mail to use another mailbox for that.
So, question #6 becomes: how do I get this local mailbox
to save a copy of messages I send from the account?
You don't. Mail will use it again (and it will disappear from the mailboxes list) if you disable Store sent messages on the server.
More weirdness: in Finder the info for this folder
says it was created at the same time as a "Drafts
(AOL IMAP).mbox" & shortly before creating "Junk (AOL
IMAP).mbox" ... yet these creation dates are
approximately one year before the main
"[email protected]" or its contents like
"Sent Items.imapmbox" were created! IOW, Finder tells
me these folders were created on my Mac around a year
before I set Mail up for the AOL account!
I have no idea what's going on here.

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In Lion, is there any way to increase the size of photos in the icon view in Finder? There used to be a slider allowing you to make the icons large enough to guess what they might be. I have not yet found any way to resize these icons--the pinch gesture does not work on them.

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