File Icon has photo vrs. symbol

Every icon for every photo on my desktop screen shows an icon for JPG. It loks like a little postage stamp with JPG as the text on it. One, and only one file shows a mini thumbnail of the underlying photo as the image on the file little icon. The icon which incorporates a mini photo came from exporting the photo from the Aperature photo management application onto the desktop.
Is there a way to show photo icons as thumbnail images anytime I want? This one icon has an actual picture on it. Very cool.

Yeah, there is. Make sure that Finder is the active application. Go to View>Show View Options. Check Show Icon Preview.

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I just upgraded to Adobe Indesign CC and now all of my file icons have turned into a white, generic-looking icon. Can anyone tell me how to get the icon to look like the Indesign icon again? Thanks in advance.
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I have an iMac with OS x 10.8. Every folder t hat opens has (in the gray zone on top) file icons and jpg photos listed. How do I remove them?

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I have an external hard drive which has my i-photo on it & some movies from i-movie that I have on disk now. But for some reason my ehd has a caution symbol on it & I can't move my event to free up space on my hd so that I can export i-movie events. Help!

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I have an i mac and under images in All My Files it has made hundreds of face photos from all my pictures in i photos, how can I stop this ?

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Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
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Note this will give you a working library with the same Rolls and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
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HT201210 my ipod has a icon of itunes music symbol and charger symbol and it wont take off, whats going on?

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File icons in exported folders

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Somehow you've managed to delete it.
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1. Put the iPhoto.app in the trash (Drag it from your Applications Folder to the trash)
2. Download it from the App Store to reinstall It's on your Purchases List* there.
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3. Re-install.
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2) iPhoto is taking about 12 seconds to quit (I have about 8,000 photos)
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1 and 4: Nothing unusual there, Apple change these things around from time to time.
2 and 3:
Back up.
Option 1
Try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
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Reversing jack-in-the-box icons that replace old excel file icons

Today I noticed that Excel file icons on my desktop have been replaced with a jack-in-the-box icon. It looks like this:
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In searching through the archives I found a discussion that suggests this icon is residual from the ResEdit program. I have no idea if that is relevant to my case (in the archive, it had to do with icons for Word documents).
I would appreciate thoughts on why this may have suddenly occurred, and if there is a way to reverse it, short of going through each of hundreds of Excel files, opening the Information panel, and manually making the change.
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I am no help other than to say it happened to me as well, not on Excel files, but on 3 folders I had with custom icons. (from a Calvin and Hobbes collection). I have not idea where they came from, and oddly when I go back in time machine to versions of the folders that are a year old they have also been replaced with this icon.
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This question is concerning x64 SQL Server 2008 R2 Std/Ent. This feature probably changed in SQL 2012.
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Hi Davin,
It’s actually a Windows File System security issue. For a Windows folder or file, the lock icon will occur when there is only one group or user (except for SYSTEM and ServerName\Administators) who has access to the folder or file. Assuming that there
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http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/remove-lock-icon-on-folder-in-windows-7/
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