Preview icons on desktop

Just upgraded to 10.9.2 Mavericks. Whereas before Preview icons in Finder showed a picture of what the file is, now it only shows the "Preview" icon. Did programmers forget this very nice feature?

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Re-launch Finder by logging out/in and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer ones.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
You might need to redo the View settings after an update.

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genegenie wrote:
I recently upgraded my computer - now running snow leopard 10.6.8.
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