Can't see thumbnails for anything when I doing a spotlight search in Finder

Hello everyone, I am having some trouble with viewing things in my Finder. When I try to do a search in the spotlight within finder, I am not able to see anything. It says that there are many files that come up but all that I see is a grey window that flashes up every few seconds. Even in cover flow there is no picture of any file. Any help on this?

It is possible that the Spotlight preference file (com.apple.spotlight.plist) is corrupted. You can try moving it from your home folder's Library/Preferences/ folder, logging out & back in to see if that makes a difference.
If not, try creating a temporary new user account, logging into that account, & seeing if the problem persists. If not, something else in your home folder is at fault.

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