Finder has suddenly restricted displaying "Preview" and "More info" info.

Sup Mac Users,
Well, a small problem has embezzled itself upon my Macintosh recently. When shuffling through my finder window and eventually ending up, say on a picture, the dimensions of the picture are not listed anymore in the preview info. As well, when previewing a movie in the finder, a Quicktime movie, the duration of the movie is no longer displayed?
This info has just disappeared somehow. And when clicking on "more info..." under the previewed file in the finder (or when right-clicking the file anywhere on my computer), which brings up a separate window displaying much descriptive info., the pic dimensions are missing, and with movies, the duration is missing too. It was listed under "size" when getting info for both pics and movies.
_What happened to this info???_ This info has been +incredibly useful+ info for just a quick glance at a file... but for some reason, when a pic or a movie is on my desktop, this exact info, duration or dimensions, is shown under the pic or movie on my desktop, and nothing else (but "show item info" is activated for the desktop).
help please,
Message was edited by: patzivota

Hi patzivota, could just be a simple corruption in your "com.apple.finder.plist" file. You can drag this to the desktop and restart (you'll find it in Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences) to see if this will solve your problem.
If after restart all appears well just trash the old plist file.

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