Automatic Drawer for Preview.

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Recently something with my Preview app hasn't been working like normal. You see, normally I high light several pictures at once, and when double clicked, a single window would open with the other pictures placed in the "drawer". Right now though, when I do all that, they each open up in their own windows. Which makes a cluttering mess. I want to know how can I restore having everything load up in the drawer like before. Any help would be great and thank you for time guys.
 
Good question

and the explanations in help : doesn't seem to answer the question unless I missed somthing

Viewing thumbnails in the drawer



When you open several images at the same time or a PDF document with multiple pages in Preview, separate thumbnail images or pages appear in the drawer. (If the PDF has a table of contents, it appears in the drawer.)



You can choose to see both the image and the filename or page number, just the image, or just the filename or page number in the drawer.


Choose Preview > Preferences and click General.
Select an option to either show the image and name, just the name, or just the image in the drawer.
Drag the Thumbnail Size slider to adjust the thumbnail size.





To show or hide the drawer, choose View > Drawer.



To jump to an image or page, click its thumbnail in the drawer.



To set Preview to load all thumbnails automatically (so they don't load dynamically as you scroll through the drawer), choose Preview > Preferences and select "Automatically load all thumbnails."
 
Hmm well, I did all those steps (Oddly enough all those options were already set) and the problem still happens. When I click on multiple images at the same time, they all still load in their own separate windows.
 
Quit Preview, then delete the file in your user/Library/Preferences folder - named com.apple.preview.plist
This will reset the preview app to default settings, and should get the thumbnail drawer working properly again.
 
That did the trick. Thanks for the help. How you guys know this stuff is beyond me but I'm thankfully you do. :)
 
Reality said:
That did the trick. Thanks for the help. How you guys know this stuff is beyond me but I'm thankfully you do. :)

Messed up preferences are a old pre-OS X problem in Apple operating systems.
 
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