10.7: Changing Mailbox display sizes in Mail

Apple has done a huge revamp of its Mail application. By default, you don't even see your list of Mailboxes along the left side of the main window. You can restore that view simply by going to View/Show Mailbox List.


Unfortunately, in my case, the Mailboxes were displayed much larger than I had them set in the previous version of Mail, with no available way to change the size from within the Mail app. The View/Use Small Mailbox Icons command is gone.

After a bit of digging around, I found the solution. Apple apparently now considers the Mailbox list to be a Sidebar, similar to the Sidebar in a Finder window. To change the size of the Mailbox List, navigate to System Preferences » General, where you will see a new option -- Sidebar icon size, with a choice of Small, Medium and Large. In my case, it was set to Medium. Simply choose your favorite size and your Mailboxes will now look the way you want them to.

One caveat: this setting affects A ...

Source: http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=40c6d9972e2b6b8d045d5d140981d0a2

applecare apple news rumors apple newspaper macworld expo