Lost in LOS Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 don'tknow what happened with my imac but all my pictures would show a preview of the picture, thumbnail. Now they dont, they just show an icon and I have to doulble click to see what the picture is. What happened, and how do I fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullx8 Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 press APPLE + TAB until the Finder is active the press APPLE + J check "show icon preview" you may have to check "set for all folders" or somethings .. also this menu is slightly different if you are on ~/Desktop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost in LOS Posted January 6, 2011 Author Share Posted January 6, 2011 press APPLE + TAB until the Finder is active the press APPLE + J check "show icon preview" you may have to check "set for all folders" or somethings .. also this menu is slightly different if you are on ~/Desktop Where is the Apple key? I assume its a key thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullx8 Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Sorry i meaned "Command" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost in LOS Posted January 6, 2011 Author Share Posted January 6, 2011 okay, did it and I had already checked that before. I checked check "show icon preview" and it is still the same, just an icon with jpeg and a generic pic of an camera on all the pictures. When I open up my file to view my pictures, a separate file with lots of pictures in it, the thumbnails came up before today and I could see what the picture was. Now, there is just an icon that says jpeg on an icon, but not picture. If I double click it the picture comes up enlarged, but there is not thumbnail with the picture like before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullx8 Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 If you run only native apps (excl windows, x11, os9) The issue most likely fix itself after some time. To speed it up you can delete the settings (osx will recreate them and execute necessary tasks) Or install onyx and enforce rebuild of the icon database manually If you use non native apps, perform first "repair permissions" on the boot-partition with disk util Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost in LOS Posted January 6, 2011 Author Share Posted January 6, 2011 http://www.jgoode.com/easy-fix-for-mac-finder-preview-thumbnails-not-displaying/ tried several times and didnt work. From your info I was able to do a google search and found this page http://www.jgoode.com/easy-fix-for-mac-finder-preview-thumbnails-not-displaying/ seems this is a very common problem. I did it and it didnt work, tried several more times, then rebooted the computer and it works. thanks for your help, it was driving me crazy trying to fix it. I switched from windows to mac because I was told Mac didnt have these sort of problems, oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullx8 Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Sorry. "repair" will not work Just click "check permissions" if there are errors, boot from install dvd and on the welcome screen select utilities -> disk util Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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