Searching / finding generic jpg file icons

Question

I use the excellent Pinki utility (http://www.mkd.cc/pinki/) to replace generic jpg icons in the Finder with an image of the file contents. However, I have not yet discovered search parameter that will find all jpg files with generic icons. Is there some way to do that?
  Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Answer 1

Interesting question. I studied a comparison of two jpgs, one with a custom thumb and one without, looking at the metadata for both. I spotted the Finder flags as being different: the one without a custom thumb had this:
kMDItemFSFinderFlags == 0
while the one that sported an icon had this:
kMDItemFSFinderFlags == 1024
So I did two trial searches on my Pictures folder, using Command-F with the Kind set to Images, then used Raw Query (it is in the drop down list of Other in the criteria selection) and pasted in the above in two separate searches, and had the results returned in List view (this lets you see at a glance whether there is a custom icon or not, since those files without one will only show the generic icon in list view, while files with one show a wee little custom thumb). The search using the "0" showed nothing but generic icons in list view, while the search using "1024" returned only files that had a custom thumb.
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