Icons in open dialog

I used to be able to control the size of the icons in an open dialog, for instance Preview, by changing the icon size in finder window for the directory I was looking at. This doesn't seem work in Lion. Any suggestions.

..."I somehow regret that it's not possible to simply edit com.apple.sidebarlists.plist with a text editor and correct the glitch instead of having to delete it as a whole."...
The default ".plist" format was changed from plain text xml to binary as of 10.4 for performance reasons - apparently binary format loads more quickly. They can still be edited using eg. "Propery List Editor.app" (XCode Tools required), or 'PlistBuddy' (copies can sometimes be found left over in "/Library/Receipts". The structure of this particular file does not make it amenable to editing with the 'defaults command' which can be useful for modifying other ".plist" files.
However, binary ".plist" files can be converted to XML format using the 'plutil' command, eg. using "/Applications" > "Utilities" > "Terminal.app":<pre>plutil -convert xml1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
open -e ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist</pre>But often, when glitches like this occur, the cause might be corruption of the file and it might not be readily apparent where the problem is so it is often easier just to delete the whole thing...

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The only solution to enlarging the icons in an application open dialog window is to use the Accessibility panel in System Preferences. Under Zoom, enable Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom.
The first time you have an application open dialog, you press the keys: option + command + = as many times as you want to zoom in. This will enlarge the open dialog window and its contents. When done, press option + command + 8 to restore normal window size. Subsequently, you can alternatively press option + command + 8 to zoom to the previous setting, or return to normal zoom.
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This is my first post in Apple forum, I've been searching some pages here, obviously I'm not the only one having this (or similar) problem but all existing threads are suggesting "Safe Mode" or "Disk Util" these useless things and never worked for me.
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Env:
27 inch iMac Late 2012, 2.9GHz i5, 8G DDR3, NVIDIA GTX660M 512M, OS X 10.9.1
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
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View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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I would like to use the windows explorer open dialog box instead of the adobe open dialog box. How can I change that?

I would like to use the windows explorer open dialog box instead of the adobe open dialog box. How can I change that?

The top screenshot is the Windows Open dialog box. All File > Open... commands in all Windows programs bring it up. Try File > Open in Notepad for example.
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