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Unlike in Tiger, my new Leopard OS is doing something kind of annoying. When I am in a Finder window (I tend to always use list view), many files are showing a preview of the content instead of the regular file icon. For example, with a PDF, I am seeing a preview of the first page instead of the regular PDF icon. And the same is true for word documents. This makes it very hard to tell what kind of files I am looking at in my list view, and it's made even worse because I am using the small icon view. You cannot tell what the content is anyway.
I can make this happen when I choose "Show View Options" from the Finder window. But that seems to only work for the current window. I need this to happen globally because I open I lot of folders and subfolders from our Xserve, and these type of setting never hold once I dismount and remount the server. Any ideas?

which view option are you using? In columns view it's enough to remove "show preview icons" in "show view options" for one window. it will affect all other windows which are in column view. for other views you change it for one window and click "use as defaults".

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