Icon changes

Hello all. I've done searches on this and found similar issues, but nothing right on the dot. If I have a RAW file and convert to JPG in my camera software, it displays as a generic JPG icon. If I open in Preview and close it still is a generic icon. However, if I then change the file name to anything other than the original, it changes to Preview's thumbnail icon and there is no way to get it back (that I know of). Functionally this isn't an issue of course but I have this thing where I like all of my icons to be the same. I don't care what icon it is as long as they are all the same. Why is Preview assuming control of graphics files that are not open? What link ties renaming a file to what icon it has (besides file type, which hasn't changed)? How can I make them all the same? Where is the control in OS X for this? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Matt

Preview isn't doing anything to the file. Finder will generate preview icons for items. This behavior can be enabled / disabled per-folder or as a default. Go to the Finder "View" menu, and select "Show View Options". Check or uncheck the box labeled "Show icon preview" per your personal preference.
Note that Finder updates the icon previews on it's own time. It might take a while for it to update an icon preview. If you do something to the file that notifies Finder that something's changed (such as, renaming the file, or modifying it), Finder will generally update the preview right away. If something copies the file somewhere, this doesn't necessarily force an update of the preview image.
If you disable icon previews, you get a generic icon.
Note that icon previews aren't always sensible. If the file is on a remote disk, or a slow external disk, the Finder needs to read the file to create the icon, and if it has to do that to lots of files, or if the files are large, that can bog it down.
OS X doesn't seem to be as smart as Linux' KDE, which recognizes that some media are slow and impractical for generating preview images from.

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