Sorting & Organizing in Preview

Hi-
In Tiger I was able to open multiple images in Preview, and them sort them by name, modified date, etc. In Leopard I can not seem to change the default method by which images are ordered. It doesn't appear that there is any type of view menu in the sidebar. Am I missing something?
Thanks!
Chris

I believe that Power Pivot does not reliably preserve the input sort of the data; this is a feature of the data model, not of Power Query.

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Is there a way to get Preview to automatically sort multiple images by filename? I had used Preview on my PowerBook G4 for years with no problems viewing images (OS X 10.3.x), but now that I've got a new MacIntel with 10.4.7, whenever I open multiple images in Preview, the first two or three are what I would expect to find at the top, but then the file order jumps around and apparently has no order. I can ctrl-click to set it to sort by name, but "name" is already checked when I do that. So now when I want to view my photos, instead of apple-A, apple-O, I'm having to apple-A, apple-O, ctrl-click, move down, click. Since I do this a lot, it gets really old really fast. I just want my low numbers at the top and high numbers at the bottom. Any suggestions? Do I need to go back to an older version of Preview?

Hi, samiam00. Welcome to the Discussions.
This is a known issue with Preview. It seems to occur most often when one selects a discontiguous collection (in the sense of left-to-right, top to bottom) or random collection of images in a folder in Icon view, whether or not the folder containing the images has been set to be arranged by name, i.e. Finder > View > Arrange > By Name.
You might get better results by selecting the images in a folder in List view sorted by name. This seems to consistently produce a Preview window where the thumbnails are sorted by name.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

Table.Sort only sorting records in preview pane

I have the following M query:
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in
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any idea why?

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Re-Sorting & Organizing PDFs

Does anyone know if it is possible to take a large stack of PDFs and sort them chronologically? I would assume the process would require assigning tags (dates) to each page and then have Preview (or some other app) sort by these tags. I have not found a way to have Preview do this, I am wondering if anyone else has, or knows of another program that can.
The goal would be similar to taking records from various sources, combining them, and then arranging by date. It's easy enough with actual paper and it would not seem that difficult with PDFs, but after searching these discussions, I have not found any helpful information.

Thanks again. Perhaps it would help if I just explained the scenario I am thinking of.
I work at a law firm and regularly have to review clients' medical records. It would be helpful to take a stack of medical records from a specific provider, scan them into PDF's, and then tag each page of the stack with the name of the provider and date of service. Then, as additional records come in from various providers, and I repeat the process, I would hope to have the ability to sort the entire set of records by date, or if need be by provider. I know it would require some manual tagging but overall I think would save a great deal of time.
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Windows 8.1, Office Home and Business 2013: This file can't be previewed because of an error in Microsoft ........... previewer

Previewer for office files is not working from the same application: i.e. can't preview Excel files when attempting to open one from Excel, same with Word and PowerPoint. I can preview all files from Outlook, and, funny, I can preview files other than Excel
from the Excel previewer, files other than Word from the Word previewer, etc.
I can preview all files from Explorer.
I've looked at previous threads and there are some with the same problem dating back to 2009, all UNSOLVED.
This is a new lap top, new Windows 8.1 and just-installed Office 2013, and 8.1 and Office have these persistent glitches.
Very frustrating to say the least.

Hi CALQ59,
Unfortunately, the article you were referred to, by Melon, is simply an article that is explaining a behaviour (some would say bug) in Windows and the Office previewer system. There appears to be a limitation that occurs whereby, if you have an instance
of the Office application open, for which you would like to preview something in an Explorer window, it will not be able to preview the file. To be able to preview the file, this article states that you "must open another instance of the program to preview
the document." So, either open another instance of the Office application in question or quit any instances of the Office application in question and then preview the file of that same type in your Explorer windows to your heart's content. That is of
course until the next time you are working on an Office document of some sort and the previewer has a hissy fit!
This is an incredibly lame bug/limitation that exists in Windows/Office. It's of no current commercial concern to Microsoft to fix it, so we just have to work around it until the problem bubbles to the surface of the development team's bug-fix to-do list,
if ever.
Unfortunately, the way software development is going these days it's all moving towards providing Minimum Viable Product (MVP - Yes, this is a term software developers use) for the same cost as a fully functional product. The bar on software QA is falling,
but the price isn't.
Cheers,
David

Check if linked image has preview?

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If we go ahead and export the image as pdf, it uses the "preview" while exporting (since the linked file is deleted).
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I need a way to find out which links have "previews" associated with them, and which do not. Can anyone give any pointers about where to look?
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virtual ResourceStoreState GetStoreState () const =0
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Hi,
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Previews and Thumbnails, again

Has anyone had success with sorting out mismatched previews and thumbnails? I cannot seem to find the "consistency check" mentioned in earlier posts (would like clear and specific info on finding that), and rebuilding the library not only did not fix this problem, but seems to have altered my keyword hud in the process.

We do not get an option to check consistency when holding down command and option while launching Aperture, all we get is the rebuild library now or later options. Is there another way to get to the consistency check?
We have tried removing the bad apples so to speak, removing the bad thumbnails and rebuilding the thumbnails with the master CD in place. As soon as the CD is removed, then the thmbnails revert to the bad previews. The files are kept on Cds and Aperture is being run on two computers, one for me, the photographer, and one for Starbanter, who is assembling the database for me. So this is happening on two computers.

HT2506 how to rename files using preview

I have scanned some images to my desktop, and now I want to rename them; how do I do this?

Just as an amendmend: the above was true in better -blessed- times.
Now (Mavericks at least) also this is gone. Why not just have the option to click in the name of the file in the Thumbnail bar and change the name? Why no preview.app>menu-item "rename"? Anybody on earth would understand this, probably even my dog i don't have....
Currently i don't find any option to rename singular pictures while browsing them using preview.
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Just adding to another oddity i am across with about preview (Annotate in Preview - Underline Tool with Different Colors) ...
Not to mention, that preview always resets the viewport of a document opened in preview to the document-beginning, when havin opened multiple documents in preview an closing one of them, totally annoying.
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Pictures in Preview Drawer...Where's the drawer???

Okay, this does it. Note to self: Buy Dummies book for operating system!
I use a lot of pictures and sort them using Preview...in the "drawer" mode, meaning that they appear in a thumbnail and I can scroll up and down to see all of the pictures.
All of a sudden, the drawer is missing and each picture opens separately. I certainly don't remember changing any preferences, etc. I did have to use Adobe Acrobat a couple times when a .pdf would not open properly in Preview. I read a couple earlier posts, so I ran Disk Utility, etc.
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Geez....it's the little things in life that are so frustrating!
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j

Hi Mickey560,
This is a bit after the fact, but I wanted to mention that this may have been a matter of just resetting the toolbar in your Preview app. I'm not sure why resetting the PRAM settings would correct the Preview drawer missing problem but it sounds more like your drawer was just hidden.
The settings held in PRAM are listed at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
so I'm not sure why that would have corrected the problem (?).
When you opened Preview was the "Toolbar" for Preview visible? Was the icon for the "drawer" visible in the toolbar if the toolbar was visible? If "this" was the problem all you needed to do was go to the "View" menu (in Preview app) and select "Customize Toolbar" selection. This would allow you to drag the "Drawer" icon back to the Toolbar. Or if the Toolbar was missing you just needed to select "Show Toolbar" in the View Menu.
Sorry if that was not your original problem but just wanted to let you know if the problem ever arises again.
All's well at this point, so I guess this is moot, but just in case for your future information....
good luck,
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How Do I Sync All Email Accounts and Mailboxes (including those I create)?

How do I Sync all email accounts in the OSX Mail Application and mailboxes(including those I have created), all using the .mac sync application . . . or is there a better way to sync information from my powerbook to my imac?
The problem: I am reading and sorting/organizing my emails on my powerbook when traveling, and then I come home to my imac and end up having to manually duplicate the work I just completed. Any easy way of truly syncing the information between computers? Pleae let me know. Thanks
What is meant by mailbox structures? For example: On my powerbook, I have 2 unread messages in one of my IMAP email accounts. I read both messages. I choose to move message A to a client mailbox that I created in the OSX Mail APPL and the other message B I leave as read in the inbox & respond with a sent email . Now I use the .mac sync app on the powerbook. Then I use the .mac sync app on my imac . . . . will the application not sync the same information/sorting/organizing/sent responces into the appropriate mailboxes? I'm so confused.
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The benefit of using an IMAP is keeping server stored messages synchronized when accessing the account with an email client such as the Mail.app on different Macs.
Messages in the Inbox mailbox for an IMAP type account are stored on the server by default which cannot be turned off.
With an IMAP type account, you can also store Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk messages on the server which is available under the Mailbox Behaviors tab for the account preferences.
If you want to keep Sent messages synchronized with Mail on both Macs, you need to select "Store sent messages on the server" under the Mailbox Behaviors tab for the account preferences in Mail on both Macs.
I choose to move message A to a client mailbox that I created
in the OSX Mail APPL and the other message B I leave as read in
the inbox & respond with a sent email . Now I use the .mac
sync app on the powerbook. Then I use the .mac sync app on
my imac . . . . will the application not sync the same information
/sorting/organizing/sent responces into the appropriate mailboxes?
I'm so confused.
Was this client mailbox created as an "On My Mac" location mailbox? If so, an "On My Mac" location mailbox is stored locally on the hard drive, not on the server so messages moved to such a mailbox will not be kept synchronized with Mail on both Macs. Transferring a message from the account's Inbox mailbox or from any server stored mailbox to an "On My Mac" location mailbox stores the transferred message locally on the hard drive and removes the message from the server at the same time.
When creating a mailbox, the default location is "On My Mac" which is stored locally on the hard drive. If you are accessing an IMAP type account, you can select the IMAP account via the location selection which will create the mailbox on the server and be available in Mail on the other Mac. Messages placed in a server stored mailbox will be kept synchronized with Mail on both Macs.

Good luck with the forum + ePub feature request

Good idea about the new forum! I'm sure it will thrive.
EPub creation in InDesign has advanced by leaps and bounds. Last week I created a fairly heavily illustrated fiction ePub out of InDesign in "one sitting", and -- amazingly -- without having to touch the resulting ePub in an external editor! (This was a book that I had typeset for print in InDesign as well, so of course that makes it easier.) Just a little custom CSS, and some custom paragraph styles and object export settings. I think that's great, and thanks to Douglas Waterfall who is clearly doing an amazing job, plus is very attentive to listening to users' requests and ideas.
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On the most basic level, chapters in the actual ePub might be formatted as so:
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Ariel
PS And of course, some sort of live preview when editing for ePubs in InDesign is also crucial.
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The forums are a work in progress, and we all have a say in its shaping.
You have a wonderful positive attitude, Pierre, but two things:
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2. We may have a say, through threads like this one, but it rarely seems to make any difference. Again that seems to reflect Adobe's overall current philosophy for product development and release... Consider the fact that they virtually always plan to release what they already have built - even though people may feed back many problem reports during beta testing. It happened with the Photoshop CS6 beta, it happens with the Camera Raw betas, and we have this forum software that, despite being released in an unfinished state, isn't being actively modified per anyone's requests.
There's only one good reason for exposing unfinished software - to solicit feedback to help find what's unfinished and prioritize what needs to be done to finish it.
It's not working, Adobe.
Hello? Is this thing on?
-Noel

How do i get the old tab switching behavior back?

I installed Firefox 8 today to give it another try after a pretty bad experience of switching from FF 3.6 to FF 4.0.
Right now, i've dealt with most of the inconveniences of the switch, but there is one thing i don't get.
What happened to the tab navigation behavior? I mean, i used to be able to switch tabs from left to right with Ctrl+Tab and from right to left with Ctrl+Shift+Tab. And it was perfect for me.
Now Ctrl+Tab is opening some sort of a preview window, and Ctrl+Shift+Tab opens the All Tabs list.
How could i get the previous behavior back? I'm too used to it to change myself simply because somebody came up with a new way that he thought would suit better.
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Hi all,
Can i use raed table binary search for Hased tables? I coded like this
DATA:T_MODEL_HASH LIKE HASHED TABLE OF T_MODEL
WITH UNIQUE KEY PBPINO WITH HEADER LINE.
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BINARY SEARCH.
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Hi Priya,
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/fc/eb362c358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
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Ferry Lianto

How to define a hashed table?

Hi..
I want to know that how we can define a hash table in ABAB.
And what are the advantages of that table?
Thanks

once you have data in your internal table, there is not much of a performance issue...unless of course it contains a huge number of entries...
i m not aware of such a possibility that an internal table can behave as both sorted and hashed...
if you go for a hashed table, the response time for your search will always be constant, regardless of the number of table entries....this is because the search uses a hash algorithm...u must specify the UNIQUE key for hashed tables.
just go thru this link for some more information...
http://www.sap-img.com/abap/what-are-different-types-of-internal-tables-and-their-usage.htm
read this...
Standard tables are managed system-internally by a logical index. New rows are either attached to the table or added at certain positions. The table key or the index identify individual rows.
Sorted tables are managed by a logical index (like standard tables). The entries are listed in ascending order according to table key.
Hashed tables are managed by a hash algorithm. There is no logical index. The entries are not ordered in the memory. The position of a row is calculated by specifying a key using a hash function.
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FIELD1 TYPE I,
FIELD2 TYPE I,
END OF TY_ITAB.
TYPES ITAB TYPE SORTED TABLE OF TY_ITAB WITH UNIQUE KEY FIELD1.....
FOR PROPER SYNTEX F1 HELP....

How do you get Slideshow in the Finder to NOT randomize the order?

This has been bugging me for a very long time. Does anyone know how to stop the Slideshow feature from randomizing the order of the photos?
As an aside, why is this the default behavior in the first place?

Oddly enough my sis-in-law called me last night wanting to know how do a slideshow on a Mac (she is normally on her Windows machine, but since my brother is currently in Bangkok she was using his Mac and couldn't ask him). I explained the Finder method, including the "random" problem, and also how to use Preview to do the show (and to sort them in Preview to change the order--control click in the drawer displaying the thumbs and then choose the sort method). One thing she would like to do that I don't know how to accomplish is to have the name of the pix display while the show is running. You can choose that if you make the slideshow in iPhoto, but evidently not in the Finder or Preview.
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