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. Icon View In an icon view, every file, folder, and disk is represented by a small picture—an icon. This humble image, a visual representation of electronic bits and bytes | . Icon View In an icon view every file folder and disk is represented by a small picture an icon. This humble image a visual representation of electronic bits and bytes is the cornerstone of the entire Macintosh religion. Maybe that s why it s called an icon. . Icon View Options Mac OS X offers a number of useful icon-view options all of which are worth exploring. Start by opening any icon view window and then choose View Show View Options -J . . Always open in icon view In Mac OS X Leopard it s easy almost scarily easy to set up your preferred look for all folder windows on your entire system. With one click on the Use as Defaults button described below you can change the window view of 20 000 folders at once to icon view list view or whatever you like. The Always open in icon view option lets you override that master setting just for this window. For example you might generally prefer a neat list view with large text. But for your Pictures folder it probably makes more sense to set up icon view so you can see a thumbnail of each photo without having to open it. That s the idea here. Open Pictures change it to icon view and then turn on Always open in icon view. Now every folder on your Mac is in list view except Pictures. Note The wording of this item in the View Options dialog box changes according to the view you re in at the moment. In a list-view window for example it says Always open in list view. In a Cover Flow-view window it says Always open in Cover Flow. And so on. But the function is the same to override the default master setting. . Icon size Mac OS X draws the little pictures that represent your icons using sophisticated graphics software. As a result you or the Mac can scale them to almost any size without losing any quality or clarity. In the View Options window Figure 1-13 drag the Icon Size slider back and forth until you find a size you like. For added fun make little cartoon sounds with your mouth. Figure 1-13. Mac OS X .