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Preview Help please
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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I have some questions on how to use Preview, since I notice some changes from previous versions. I have just recently upgraded from Leopard to Lion.
1. can you add tool to the tool bar? in previous versions all of the tools were available in the tool bar, or you could put ones in that were missing.
2. in previous versions I could open all of the photos and click on full screen have them full screen. And then would automatically be saved full screen. Now they revert to whatever size they originally appeared. And when I try to save them at the full screen size I cannot because they are LOCKED (see #3 below)
3. my photos show that they are all locked. I am not sure how this happened, since they were not locked in Leopard. So, now, if I want to make any changes, I must first duplicate the photo or jpeg and place it into another folder. Since I have over 10,000 photos, this is going to be impossible to do one by one. Also, I do not know how to unlock them all at once. I need a way to eliminate the locked status so I can freely use them. And then IF I do successfully copy all the photos, it will not allow me to delete the originals. This is the warning note that appears:
The file “01-1.jpeg” is locked because you haven’t made any changes to it recently. If you want to make changes to this document, click Unlock. To keep the file unchanged and work with a copy, click Duplicate.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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There should still be a menu command to customize the toolbar. Apple just made it less obvious now by taking out the toolbar button.
As for why your files are locked, you should go to the folder they're located in and see if you can unlock it through the Get Info window (File menu > Get Info).
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Files automatically lock some time after you last edited them.
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Or you could go into (you'll never guess)
System Preferences > Time Machine options, and you can turn off locking there.
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This one time, at Boot Camp, I stuck a flute up my PC.
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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Thank you both very much for your kind assistance. I was able to follow each of your instructions and have the issue resolved. It is such a relief. Now I get to wade through close to 8k photos. All the best.
Regards
Ron
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Have you considered Automator?
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I am not familiar with Automator, but I will do a search. Thanks
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