Still don't know how to preview all photos in for example "downloads"
Osx UX is a messsssss
Osx UX is a messsssss
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201732
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-view-options...
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/view-and-edit-files...
Or, select the first, touch the space bar and you will see the Quick Look preview. Use the arrow keys to move between the different files.
Not really seeing the messssss, but to each their own I guess.
Not that easy depending on the number of pictures and the folder content.
> Use the arrow keys to move between the different files.
Won't work correctly in grid view.
Also: I don't want to mess with the way I set up Finder to display/sort the folder just to view the pictures.
You can also just continue to use Grid view and tell Finder to use large preview icons in that folder.
1. Open the downloads folder
2. view>as icons
3. view>use groups, view>group by>kind
4. scroll down to the images section, hit the 'show all' at the top right of this section
5. drag the icon size slider at the lower right to make icons huge, scroll around
Alternatively
1. open the downloads folder
2. view>as list/column
3. view>use groups, view>group by>kind
4. scroll down to the images section
5. select an image, hit space to bring up Quick Look, use up/down arrows to move through the images
You can use Quick Look from the icon view too but it's a bit confusing to try and navigate through a 2d grid that's hidden behind the Quick Look.
You could also use either of these methods to isolate all the images quickly, then select them and open them with Preview if you explicitly wanted them in that app, but big icons/Quick Look is usually gonna be a lot faster for uses like "finding that one image in a messy directory".
All this finder-thing is damned
I need a simple solution. Someone below said how to do it in windows - doublecqick first photo. DONE
What more do you want?
https://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/m...
Lots of extra options are surfaced in MacOS when Option is held. Press option while any menu is open and you’ll see new options. The context menu will show that quick look becomes full screen preview in this case. Lo and behold simply pressing Option Space will do the same thing.
I suspect I’m missing your point somehow?
On Windows/Linux you would just open the first file which is a lot easier.
On Mac, if you want to find something it's Command-F. In Finder this opens up a dropdown, set Kind: Image, now you see all images in the folder, and nothing which is not an image. Command-A for select all, drag or right click to preview.
I explain it the way I do because I had never had occasion to try "let's find all the images in a folder of mixed file types" on Mac, so I started with "Find" and yeah. Quite simple indeed.