New to Macs

[Ziff]

Hi. I'm new to Macs and having a couple of set up problems:-

1) When looking for images in Google I only get the first 3 lines and then the rest are greyed out boxes. How do I correct this?

2) Can I set it so each folder sorts files by kind?

Thanks

 

[Ziff]

Ooops. just noticed that my previous thread did upload!

 

[richard.mac]

1) maybe an internet or browser issue. dont know about this one. hopefully it will correct itself.

2) use list view by clicking the icon with 4 horizontal lines or press command+2 and sort the kind column. it wont show folders first like Windows tho.

 

[MonkeySee....]

what browser you using?

 

[richard.mac]

Safari. ive had that happen in Facebook and Google images showing blue question marks, but i dunno what i did, seemed to fix itself. try reseting Safari from the menu.

 

[MonkeySee....]

ahh ok. I'm using chrome dev and have a few issues with pictures showing but but wasn't sure if it was related to the OP's problem.

 

[Ziff]

Yes it is Safari - resetting doesn't solve it.

With regards to folders - can I set it so that folders default to kind? I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time sorting the folders!

 

[Binarymix]

Right click empty folder space, select 'view options'.

Select your preferred view settings and click the button at the bottom 'use as defaults'.

Also if your really want folders at the top, there is a plugin called total finder, which also adds tabs. It does cost money unfortunately.

 

[cherry su]

Try Firefox -- it may solve your problems.

 

[MonkeySee....]

i've found firefox a real chore lately. Not the quickest of browsers.

 

[ECUpirate44]

+1 for Chrome!

 

[Ziff]

Just tried Firefox and that does work much batter - i get ;age 1 but greyed out for the rest of the pages!

 

[Ziff]

Aaaargh! No images at all now - all greyed out!

 

[cherry su]

What about Chrome? And Opera? And Camino?

 

[xraydoc]

Aaaargh! No images at all now - all greyed out!

Doesn't sound like a browser problem, but more like an ISP issue.

 

[Buck987]

Try another like chrome. Any other computers you can check out on network

 

[Ziff]

PC and MacBook also on network - PC works fine MacBook is the same - showing just first page as images and rest as grey squares

 

[TMRaven]

What might be your internet's download speed.

My iMac with safari seems to work fine with loading all the images at once, it's only when I scroll down to they turn into grey squares, but they download soon after as well.