Re-sizing thumbnails

When viewing the fotos in an event, I can't see them all (as thumbnails). I read of a situation like this in a thread and the guy said he just re-sized the thumbnails. How do you do it?
THANKS, DOUG

In Event view - in the lower right hand corner of the window there is a slider - move it toward the left and the event thumbnails will get smaller
Larry Nebel

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Last edited by whoops (2009-03-23 16:40:35)

Found inside: abs/extra/libgnomeui
File: gnome-thumbnail.c
changed:
size = 128;
if (factory->priv->size == GNOME_THUMBNAIL_SIZE_LARGE)
size = 256;
...to:
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if (factory->priv->size == GNOME_THUMBNAIL_SIZE_LARGE)
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size = 128;
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(edit: jupp, still working after reboot. source messy, thumbnails big, me happy. )
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Over the past year, Ive kept a list of PSE 6 problems Ive encountered and verified:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b65e1b/0
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Overview
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- Numerous problems with searching, including the broken timeline and exclude keyword category.
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Raw Files
Major Problems
[F] On a multiprocessor, the Organizer behaves erratically with catalogs containing raw files: sometimes it crashes, sometimes it shows the hourglass icon for raw files, sometimes it shows the broken-image icon.
[F] In a catalog with large numbers of raw files, scrolling quickly over dozens or hundreds of large-sized thumbnails will consume 100% CPU for a minute or longer.

Part II
File Management and Tagging
Major Problems
[F] The File > Move command will silently and permanently lose a file if the destination folder has a file of the same name as the file being moved; this is different behavior than PSE 5.
[F] The File > Move command loses the association between the photo and the audio caption, even though it moves both files to the new location.
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[F] Tag hierarchies with more than 500 or so tags make the Keywords pane unusably slow (but worked fine in PSE 5).
[F] The Photo Downloader process APDProxy.exe crashes at startup because of a missing DLL.
]This problem doesnt occur in my PSE 7. But it was clearly a timing-dependent bug (a race condition) that came and went for me and many others, so it may be still lurking. Adobe has a tech note that says it occurs with PSE 7, but the tech note gives symptoms and a workaround that only apply to PSE 6, suggesting a cut-and-paste error by a PSE 7 support person.
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[NF] The Reconnect command fails to reconnect when: you move your photos to a new drive, assign the drive the letter of the old drive to the new one, and leave both drives connected to your computer.
[NF] If a hard drive containing photos in the catalog gets its drive letter reassigned by Windows, then the left-hand folder pane of Display > Folder Location view shows the old drive letter, not the new one, as containing the photos.
]This sounds innocuous, but it led a user on the forums to select the wrong drive when dragging and dropping a folder, permanently deleting some files. This bug and the previous one with Reconnect have the same underlying cause the Organizer doesnt update drive letters in its catalog.
[NF] Folder Location view shows incorrect folder contents when more than one keyword tag is selected in the Keyword Tags pane.
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Minor Problems
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[F] The Organizer doesnt unlock an edited file saved to a folder whose name contains an apostrophe.
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]You can get files named 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc. but you cant get files named p1.jpg, p2.jpg, etc. a hyphen is still added in that case.
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Map View
Major Problems
[NF] Map view is unusably slow with more than about 6-8,000 mapped photos.
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]In PSE 7, it takes 3 seconds with 1,000 photos, 12 seconds with 8,000 photos, and 18 seconds with 12,000 photos.
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]Giving a map location to a tag assigned to 2000 photos makes assigning any keyword tag to a photo very slow (see above). Searching on keyword tags takes 15 seconds, and a Show All takes 15 seconds.
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]The weird thing is that assigning a map location to the tag doesnt try to write the metadata of files with that tag.
[NF] Moving map locations always fails, silently (too bad if you want to record backcountry locations not namable via a place name).
[NF] If a photo with GPS coordinates is imported, it doesnt show as a red push-pin on the map.
]Scrolling the map or restarting the Organizer causes the pin to appear.

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Over size imaged reduced to link
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