View Thumbnails in Open Dialog?

When you bring up a "open file" dialog, the window automatically comes up in the list view. Once it's open, I can manually select the thumbnail view, but next time you bring it up it goes back to the list view. I want this dialog to open with the thumbnail view selected. Anyone know of a way to do this?
Jeremy Backer
CLAD
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Ben wrote:
Andrey Dmitriev wrote:
Ben wrote:
Not me!
When I saw the work involved, I let my customer choose, pictures or substance. They chose substance so no ready made solution.
Ben
Ah, all LabVIEW programmers are commonly sooooo lazy... (me too)
Andrey.
Look at it the other way...
LV developers are smart (they chose LV) so they use their inteligence to work smarter not harder.
Ben
Fully agree! But LabVIEW developers are not only smart, they also able to get things done...
Quick and dirty something liike that:
LabVIEW 8.6 / WindowsXP. Not sure about Vista / 7. Too lazy to check it.
Enjoy!
Andrey.
Attachments:
Open File Dialog with Thumbnails.vi ‏12 KB

Similar Messages

Thumbnails in "OPEN" dialog box too small to see!

The thumbnails are too small in the open dialog box so that I can't see the file I want to open. Yes, you can make them bigger in finder itself...but I am always opening pictures and I just can't see them!
Almost as frustrating as the column issue. The name column is very very wide when I try to open a file.. so I can't sort by the other columns without dragging over the bar at the bottom of the screen. THis is so so frustrating. I resize but it doesn't stick to the next session.
Apple invented the finder. Why is it so inferior to windows explorer?

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.
This is as good as it is going to get. The applications (not just Apple’s) only use a subset of Finder’s settings in the open dialogs, and these do not include icon enlargement settings, which as you realize, are part of the actual Finder’s settings. The application development frameworks, and not Finder, are remiss in not providing icon size adjustments in open dialog windows.
You can provide feedback to Apple regarding OS X.

List view fubar in open dialog

If I use Safari and use the "Open" oder "Save as" dialog in list view the follwing things happen:
1) The name column is ultra-wide, so wide, you have to scroll to see the other columns like date or size
2) You cannot resize the columns
3) You cannot sort by clicking on any column but the name column
Anyone else experiencing this?
I've deleted the com.apple.finder prefs and rebooted. Didn't help much.

Do you have an Arrangement set for the dialogs? It's the button between the View options and the folder name. If something is set in the Arrangement, the view will look and act differently than if Arrangement is set to None.

How to increase size of thumbnail in open dialog?

I saw this screenshot on a forum http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/aafe217759.jpg the thumbnail is HUGE! but on my computer, when i go into open, the thumbnail size is much smaller. http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/4644/picture2rt1.png can someone help me and let me know how to increase the size of the thumbnail?

I found out that this was done with the help of a wacom bamboo and a key on the pen. I am trying to find out if the pen button was mapped to a modifier key, but I am not getting a response. maybe someone else can get somewhere with this hint.

How to view thumbnails of open files in elements 12?

For some reason i cannot figure out how to see my open files as thumbs when editing in elements 12. I am sure it is something i am overlooking. thanks for the help.

Click where it says Photo Bin at the bottom left of the editor window. As part of Adobe's way of making PSE "easier" to use, you can't see the tool options and the photo thumbnails at the same time anymore.

Open dialog views

hi Gurus,
can someone please tell me how to enable/disable views in the open dialog of WAD. i would like to disable/enable Workbooks and history views.
thank you.

Hi,
First of all, are you using WAD 3.5 or 7.0 ?
I am not so sure of WAD 3.5, but in WAD 7.0, you have command for Open Dialog in the Commands List.
Command for Data Provider --> Data Provider commands for Open/Save Function --> Call Open Dialog.
Under this specify your target Data Provider. And giv the required settings, in the following screens.
You can bring this command through a Link item or Puch Button or anything, as per your requirement.
Hope this solves your problem.

Thumbnail view in open dialog

I am not sure if this is even possible, but it's worth a question...
Is there a way in a flex/air to open the "file open dialog" in thumbnail view? (it opens automatically in list view)
I have an application that needs to open images and it would look much better if it could open in thumbnail view so that the user can see what (s)he is selecting.

Did you ever figure this out? I too need to do this.

Can't see psd thumbnails in the open dialog box.

In the open dialog box, the thumbnails for psd files do not show the picture but show an Elements logo instead. How can I see picture thumbnails for psd files as I do for jpg files? I found a dng codec on the web site but not a psd codec. The dng codec doesn't work for psd files.

Hi,
Is there any error message when you try to map network Drive manually? It would be better to provide more details about error message.
Generally speaking, this problem can be caused by Network Connection problem, please make sure your Client PC could access to Network Drive PC.
In addition, please check Network Drive PC security setting, if there is any firewall policy prevent this operation.
If still no use, please check Event Viewer if it identify this problem.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support
There is no error. There is no connectivity problem. THe drives map automatically and always have. I can open up File Explorer and browse these drives all I want. I can open up Word and browse to these drives just fine.
However, when I open certain programs, and click File | Open, the mapped network drives just simply aren't there. I only see C and D and that's it.

Image preview in Open dialog window (Photoshop CS6)

Hi
We had a possibility to see images preview in Open File dialog window of Photoshop CS5 but in new CS6 version there is not such possibility. Should I forget about that nice option and use Mini Bridge?

I'm not so sure it was on purpose or not Noel. Especially since it's still there in Illustrator and Indesign. If it weren't for it being in those, I might think it was intentional. Then again, it could very well be Adobe trying really hard to push MiniBridge, which is almost utterly useless. I think they actually made the minibridge WORSE as well. The sizing issues of the thumbnails on that are a pain and minibridge is just plain cumbersome to run. Anyways, besides my many qualms with minibridge itself, and back on the open dialog box thing...I actually watched a youtube video pointing out the same codecs you're talking about and without the PSD functionality, it's pretty useless. I'm a graphic designer, so I don't really use PS for camera image editing and don't mess with those files that the codec helps with. Even if it did, that still isn't very helpful to me. Because at that point, you're pretty much just doing what Bridge/MIniBridge does. However, consider how I, and many other designers in the print field work: At any given point we might have something like 3 different versions of a file; a PSD (with layers to edit), a JPEG (to send to the customer for proofing), and a PDF (for printing). Now, within that customer folder I might have 50+ files of different jobs. Imagine trying to sift through all those thumbnails, scrolling across window upon window, and when you get to the file you're finally looking for, you click it open to just to see that you opened the jpeg instead of the PSD. Now, in LIST view, I can see many more files on one screen and each file type is represented by an icon. So I know the blue icons are Photoshop icons and it's very easy to skim through there and know exactly which file type I'm looking for without peering at extensions. Get what I'm saying? Not that I don't appreciate you trying to help. Just saying, unless any codec can bring back the preview screen....than I don't see a workaround until Adobe flat out FIXES IT. I'm one of those guys that loves to get the newest thing and give it time to work, but if they don't fix it, I might have to call up Adobe and demand a downgrade on my Photoshop to 5.5, cause it really slows my workflow when I have hundreds of files to keep up with, and any new feature in PS CS6 that might have sped up my work is offset by not being able to do such a remedial task as preview my files before opening them.

Slow navigation in the Open dialog

Here at work, we've just updated all of our Macs to OS X 10.8.3 (Mountain Lion), the latest version as of this writing, from Snow Leopard. This has brought about a very unwanted change in Illustrator CS6's behavior.
Previously, whenever opening a file in Illustrator, navigating through a folder with hundreds of files by typing the first few letters of the file name we're after, it would take us quickly to that file. If it was slow to do so, then it was because the dialog was trying to generate a thumbnail preview of each file that we were hitting along the way. No big deal, since we could easily hit the down-arrow next to "Preview" so that the dialog would not try to generate a preview image for each file that was selected.
Now, however, the preview window takes up the rest of the Open dialog and it cannot be closed. For example, as we type the filename "test.ai" in a folder with hundreds of files in it, the selection would stop at the first file with the letter "t" as the first letter, take about five seconds to generate a preview of that file, then move on to the next file, which is the fist one that begins with "te"—stopping at it to generate a preview, of course—then on to "tes", etc. This means that it can take upwards of a good 15–20 seconds for the dialog to finally reach the file we need before we can finally hit <return> on it to open it up. Please note that this behavior is not present in InDesign CS6, however.
Is there any way to turn off this "previewing" of files that are highlighted in Illustrator CS6's Open dialog on Mountain Lion?
UPDATE: We have tried using each of the four different view options at the top of the Open dialog—Thumbnail, Details, List, etc.—with the same result. Even in the Detail view, which doesn't have a Preview pane, still takes several seconds to move from one file to the next as you're typing out the target filename. Any thoughts on what is causing this, then?
Message was edited by: SturmB359

Hi,
Is there any error message when you try to map network Drive manually? It would be better to provide more details about error message.
Generally speaking, this problem can be caused by Network Connection problem, please make sure your Client PC could access to Network Drive PC.
In addition, please check Network Drive PC security setting, if there is any firewall policy prevent this operation.
If still no use, please check Event Viewer if it identify this problem.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support
There is no error. There is no connectivity problem. THe drives map automatically and always have. I can open up File Explorer and browse these drives all I want. I can open up Word and browse to these drives just fine.
However, when I open certain programs, and click File | Open, the mapped network drives just simply aren't there. I only see C and D and that's it.

Tiny open dialog icons in Photoshop

I recently migrated from PC to Mac and although I love the conversion, there is one thing that I'm hoping there is a solution for: I work in Photoshop extensively and when I have the Open dialog box open, my thumbnails are very small. I don't see any way to make them bigger.
Sometimes I want to take a quick look at a couple dozen similar thumbnails at a glance (without having to press the spacebar for a one-at-a-time Quick View, or using one of the alternate dialog box views which also only show one at a time.)
Is anyone aware of how I can fix this in Mavericks, or if there is a plug-in available that will allow application open dialogs to default to whatever size I have my Finder icon size set at?
Thanks so much for any input!!

Instead of using Opem, you can use "Browse in Bridge" This will open Adobe Bridge wich works a lot better for what you want to do.

Illustrator cc2014 open dialog box won't work yosemite

I have a Macbook Pro Retina 2014 with a fresh install of Yosemite and Creative Cloud, after a while, when I used the open dialog box for 4 or 5 times to open documents, that dialog box won't work anymore, I have to quit and reopen the Illustrator application, the shortcut won't work either. Is anybody got that problem before?
When I was on Mountain Lion, I never got this problem, I presume it's related to Yosemite.

Gelouis,
I believe it is a bug in CC2014, appearing when you have the Illustrator open/place dialogue set to column view and sort by date or sort by kind. You may change it to view by name or list view.
https://forums.adobe.com/message/7145022#7145022
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1723170
https://forums.adobe.com/message/7183002#7183002
Or you may get it right by changing the sort to something else.

Open dialog box photoshop on Mac

Just switched to mac and I am very frustrated with photoshop. When I click OPEN I see very small thumbnails of my images (75 x 50 pixels)... they are so small and there are NO OPTIONS for making them bigger. This can't be correct. How do I make them larger?
This also happens in inDesign when I place images ... please help!

Pressing the space bar while in an Open dialog will bring up a QuickLook preview of the selected file - a little clunky, but it works. You can also use Default Folder X (http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/) which adds previews below all your Open dialogs, as well as a bunch of other handy navigation features.
- Jon
Disclaimer: I'm the author of Default Folder X

Open Dialog box: disable image preview (For large images, it's SLOOOWWWW)

Open Dialog box in column view:
Can I disable image preview?
For large images, it's SLOOOWWWW !!!!!
( I often work with 8000 x 3500 panoramic images )

William
Mostly this is a problem in PhotoshopOK, my Photoshop is still a Classic version. I was looking at one or two others, like GraphicConverter, but the only pref there seems to be to generate a Preview if one doesn't exist.
I'll look some more—it's irritating me now

Open dialog box freezes

on my dual 2.0 power mac G5, every time i bring up a standard open dialog box in any application, the finder freezes, and i have to relaunch it. this only started happening after i installed the 10.4.7 update.
i tried switching to another volume with a separate installation of os x, and everything was working fine, but as soon as i upgraded to 10.4.7, it started happening there, too. this is becoming a real problem, because it's a real pain to have to open all of my files directly from the finder.
has this happened to anyone else? is there a firmware update or something else that i need to install?

UPDATE:
i have diagnosed the problem further, and the issue appears to center around loading file metadata, because i have the exact same issue when i ctrl-click a file and select "get info".
the problem also goes away in the open dialog when i choose list view.

View Thumbnails in Open Dialog?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for