Multiple Icon Views

Function: Two workflows that toggle the icon view state of a folder: Make Icons Large sets the icon view of the selected folder contents to 128×128, turns on “Show Icon Preview” and sets the window to folder view. Make Icons Normal sets the folders contents to 48×48 icons and browser view.

Author: Nathan Smith

Notes: I sometimes like to have a folder of pictures that I want to show people and don’t want to add them to iPhoto. Using Make Icons Large is a great way to view pictures very quickly without opening an actual application. This is nothing more then some basic Automator actions but really saves a lot of time.

There is a small bug in the Set Folder Views action that bears mentioning: The “Icon Size” slider will properly set the icon size, but on reopening the saved workflow, the text will read “48” – Steve.