Slideshow in finder

Please help
You know when you highlight multiple jpegs in a finder window and right click you get a quick view choice in the menu. If you hold the option key you get a slideshow choice. All that still works, but now the slideshow control doesnt disolve away. My Airbook does and my imac used to. All of a sudden it doesnt. It is very annoying to have to watch a slideshow with the black controls on top

Have you tried clicking away from the controls at all to see if that helps? Doing this will advance the slideshow once, but may trigger the system to have the controls disappear. You can also try moving the controls slightly by dragging one of the vertical lines in them, or try clicking the "Index" section of the controls to spur a different view, after which perhaps the slideshow will kick in the proper behavior of the controls.

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Weird...I don't seem to have a limit for the # of photos I can have open in preview: I once had 4300 open at once. I can even view all of those in a slideshow. But, I can't use the index sheet feature when all of those are open. I can only open about 600 photos and still be able to use the index sheet. That's probably a limitation due to my screen resolution, though. But, it is really slow (even with my new macbook) when I click on the index sheet because it has to resize all 600 photos at once. You are probably limited due to your computer (I'm not sure which of the three listed ones you use for this, but they are not as fast as my MacBook).
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"Slideshow" feature in finder...?

Have a folder full of images. I select all and control-click to bring up the menu, then click "slideshow".
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Search for "slideshow in Mac Help Menu. Instructions for using slideshow:
"Viewing images as a slideshow"
You can also pick a folder of photos, select all or just the ones you want, then right click and select slide show. The slides play in the order the folder is organized.
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This frequently helps solve some problems. Quit iDVD. Search for the file named com.apple.iDVD.plist and trash it. (A new one will be created next launch of iDVD.) Or look in: User/Library/Preferences. This may solve project loading errors too. Restart and use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.
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Hi BD. Not iPhoto—never use it—nor ScreenSaver. Here's a Cut and Paste from Help:
In the Finder, select image files in a folder or on your Desktop. Then hold down the Control click as you click one, and choose Slideshow from the shortcut menu that appears.
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To zoom in to and out of an image, click Fit to Screen or Actual Size.
To add an image to your iPhoto library, click Add to iPhoto.
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I found one other post, posted in the iPhoto 5 section, with no responses:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5155628&#5155628
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koffiejunkie:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. The three options I have for format are: Current display, 4:3 (iDVD, TV) and Widescreen 16:9. The 4:3 option puts black bars on either side and pins the height. The 16:9 option put black all around the image. Do either of these work for you?
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How can we create a Slideshow on the front page of our application/?

Are you using a particulary slideshow plugin or something you've found on the web? Lots of free options are pretty easy to find with a quick google search. Then you just put your images into a directory on the file system or on a remote server or workspace images if you prefer. upload the javascript css files.
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anangeli wrote:
I like the answer, which is nice, but I would rather think it is better if it could be made on the fly while the slideshow continues.
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redchick,
Are you saying you did your own organization in the iPhoto Library folder that is in your Pictures folder. If you did, then read these links...
Two Apple kbs for you to read
Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto library folder
About the iPhoto Library folder
since you have very little you can start all over and import the images from the old library.
Close iPhoto
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Drag this library to your desktop
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This is the window you will get
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PLEASE HELP! Flashing desktop/finder - can't do anything!

Hi,
My mac just went crazy and I have no idea what to do, Please help me!
I've just installed a program called Slideshow Magic (shareware downloaded from download.com) and after making 2 slideshows the finder just started flashing. Basically all the desktop icons and the top bar appear then dissapear about every 2 seconds, the little black arrow next to the Finder icon in the dock appears and dissapears at the same intervals, so I assume the Finder is opening then quiting, opening and quitting over and over.
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Can anyone suggest what has gone wrong or more importantly how to fix it, it has all my art college work on and I've got a deadline next monday so I really need to get back on my feet. Any help will be MOST appreciated!
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Thank you both for your suggestions, however neither have worked.
Dale, I went through Dr Smokes guide and all was fine apart from the Cache Cleaning software. I couldn't install the software as the finder isn't open long enough to allow me to do so.
Niel, I tried booting with Command and S held down and ran the commands you suggested but to no avail.
A couple of things I tried doing myself...
I ran the Hardware Test by booting from the cd and holding the option key. I ran the extended test and everything passed, so I know its not a hardware issue.
I then booted from the cd again and updated the system software, upon restarting the desktop appeared fine, but after about a minute it reverted to it's flashing state. The two files that I created from the slideshow program (that originally caused this problem) are still on the desktop and I assume that they have caused it to go again.
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. No really. If you create the slideshows in iPhoto with music and send to iDVD you can put the three QT files that are created in the process into an iDVD slideshow and they will play sequentially.
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