Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
[Finder]How to make the 'Show Preview' column larger when in 'List View'
- Thread starter fathergll
- Start date
-
- Tags
- finder
- Sort by reaction score
Drag the divider. But once you reach the Finder's maximum size, that's as far as it will go. After that, use QuickLook if you want a larger preview.
View and edit files with Quick Look on Mac - Apple Support
View and edit files with Quick Look on Mac - Apple Support
That's how far it goes which is not far when viewing on a 5k screen. On a laptop with much lower resolution it's doable.
Basically there is no limitation to dragging that divider in Windows Explorer which is incredibly nice and is prompting me to find a solution for MacOS Finder to mimic that. The only thing I can think of is Apple designed that years before high resolution screens came out and the images were big enough in the preview pane.
Edit - Yes I am aware of Quick look but curious to see if anyone had any Terminal hack or something else to get this bigger within Finder.
Basically there is no limitation to dragging that divider in Windows Explorer which is incredibly nice and is prompting me to find a solution for MacOS Finder to mimic that. The only thing I can think of is Apple designed that years before high resolution screens came out and the images were big enough in the preview pane.
Edit - Yes I am aware of Quick look but curious to see if anyone had any Terminal hack or something else to get this bigger within Finder.
Last edited:
You can double the size of the preview column of the Finder if you use ForkLift - $20, but it offers an awful lot of other features beyond a larger Finder preview column if you're willing to spend the $. But even Forklift doesn't allow the amount of customization Windows Explorer does.
You can search for Finder Window Managers to see if there's something else out there that suits you.
You can search for Finder Window Managers to see if there's something else out there that suits you.
Last edited:
Yeah looks like third party Finder replacement is the only option then. I don't even mind the money but these apps can have issues with resources and crashing I just hate having to rely on third party for something that is such a foundation of using the OS such as file management. God if Apple would just put some more effort into their file management(I'm sure I am preaching to the choir here)
Apple has to balance pro features with the lowest common denominator end user. For every one of us there are probably hundreds of users who have no use for a particular feature or don't even know what it is.
That being said, I tried several Finder replacement apps, but I settled on ForkLift. I'm currently using the version 4 beta (it's freely available on their blog). It's in pretty good shape for a beta version, I'm using it all the time on my main Mac. Version 3 (the currently shipping version) is pretty stable, but I would just jump in with the beta at this point.
That being said, I tried several Finder replacement apps, but I settled on ForkLift. I'm currently using the version 4 beta (it's freely available on their blog). It's in pretty good shape for a beta version, I'm using it all the time on my main Mac. Version 3 (the currently shipping version) is pretty stable, but I would just jump in with the beta at this point.
