Being a web designer, graphic artist, and a photographer, well you could say I use my mac to deal with images quiet a lot. I estimate that in my “Resources” folder on my server (made up of stock photos and graphics) and my own photograph collection, I have around 100,000 images. When I need to find a texture, or a stock photo to suit a specific purpose, I may need to browse through a folder with up to a 1000 images in it. The great thing about having a 30″ monitor is that you can open the folder up, fill the screen and see a lot of the files quickly. My FAVORITE thing in Snow Leopard was the icon size slider. Just by dragging the slider located at the bottom right of every folder view left or right, you could make icons small to fit more on screen for faster browsing, and when you think you found what you need, you could drag it up to enlarge the icon for a closer look. It was GREAT!
One of the first things to piss me of in Lion was that the slider is gone. (Literally, It only took me about 3 mins to notice it missing).
In search of a solution, I found a icon slider in the “View Options”, but this meant each time I need to change icon sizes I had to open another window, and it was a real pain.
Today, I stumbled upon the solution – The slider is still there in Lion (YAY!), but it is just turned off by default (BOO!). To turn it back on, click any blank area on your desktop to select the finder, then open the View menu, slide down and select/check “Show Status Bar”
It seems a bit ambiguous when you are looking for the icon size slider to have to select “Show Status Bar” to bring it back, but at least it is still there!
Another cool feature available in this view menu, is to select/check “Show Path Bar”. Once it is checked, you see a “breadcrumbs” style path to where your file is. Very Handy!
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Many thanks for this info! I too immediately missed the size slider in my finder!
you used to be able to this with two fingers a-la pinch and zoom – they seems to have disabled this completely in lion! in trying to google for answers, i found a heap of people whining about how they were accidentally resizing their desktop icons that way in snow leopard or earlier, so i guess that’s why that particular pinch and zoom capability is not in lion. boooo 🙁
Thanks for the info, I was just searching for a solution when i found ur post! I am also interested to learn if anyone else has found customizing the finder windows under lion to be a problem? In order to customize the window under lion u must bring the image file to the target folder and then proceed to drop it, because wherever u go in ur directory to grab the source image, once u grab it, the enclosing folder now becomes the target folder for the finder window change?? Has anyone found a better way?
Thank you! Agree totally as a photographer took seconds to notice the slider and folder info had gone. Thank you for your help!
Ahh thanks for this solution, somehow some of my icons were resized and i finally got the info on how to put them back… Anyways this was much easier to do in snow leopard as you could use gestures to resize them, but i guess it has been disabled…
Thanks for taking the time to post this Greg… it is so unobtrusive, I wonder why they took it away as a default. I use it all the time for photos as well.
Fantastic!!
Thanks so much… super find, web dev also and likewise found the lack of a slider really annoying, and also well done on your captcha that doesnt take 15 attempts to get right, sometimes it just drives me mental working out damn captcha chars.
ExACTLY what i was looking for. Thanks!
nice info, please correct your twitter link so that people can follow you 🙂
Thanks for the heads up about the broken Twitter link! All fixed now.
thanks sooo much!, got a lion setup at work and was about to ask our tech to revert to SnowL. to get the slider back. Yay!!
Thank you-Thank you…. for finding a solution to this problem!
Thank you so much for finding a solution to this problem! It has been driving me CRAZY! Why they hid it I will never know, it’s an awesome feature!
thnx so much I was looking for that all over the internet thnx so much again
thnx man
I was frustated myself for the missing size slider.
You are a life saver!!!! Thank you verymuch for the tip 🙂
Thanks so much. I looked all over the web as well…
Legend! been needing this for so long.
Awesome!!!!!! Thank you so much. Was ready to dump the drive and reinstall Snow Leopard.