Smart folders icon preview

Why are there no icon previews in smart folders? cover flow works fine but the icons in all four views do not have previews except for images which had icon previews in Tiger.

They look alright to me.

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    Hi,
    I have created a couple of Smart Folders and put them in the side bar. When i select the Smart Folder, it shows the files and their preview icons. When i access the same Smart Folder in an Open Dialog pane from Keynote or another application, it shows regular file icons only, not the preview icons.
    Is this how it is supposed to work?

    While I'm not quite sure what you mean, it sounds to me like you had the Open dialog set for Column view, and at some point changed it to List view. Take a look at the toolbar at the top of the Open dialog window, you should see the back/forward buttons, then a group of three icons representing icon, list and column view. Both icon view and column view will show a preview icon of the selected file. Personally, I like icon view, since you see all the files that fit in the window with custom thumbs, and can pick what you want quickly. If you change the setting, in say Safari, to list view (which makes more sense in Safari), then the Open dialog for, say, TextEdit gets changed too. Just change it back by clicking the little icon in the toolbar at the top of the Open window.
    Francine
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    Thanks!!! I had been looking for like 25mins before i luckily ran into this thread!

  • 'show icon preview' not working, Icon preview no longer visible

    I have lots of folders full of jpg files. The preview icon do longer appears and all i get is the genetic icon. This happened randomly yesterday and I don't know how to fix it. I have the 'Show Icon Preview' enabled yet I only get the generic icon. Any ideas why? (OS X 10.5.8). I have tried a restart, permissions fix, and reindexed my hard drive with spotlight. No luck. Please help!
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    while not knowing if you perform any general maintenance in a
    preventative way for your OS X system, some of the suggestions
    I could provide here may mean little or nothing to some users, or
    to others, who have done them for years as a matter of course, to
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    and restart the computer normally. - Other repairs to the system may
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    You can repair disk, verify disk (SMART verify), repair disk permissions
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    tools to set up partitions and other things beyond a basic simple fix.
    SafeBoot mode, basic:
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    and since I haven't followed that issue (experienced it in the past, forgot
    what I did to fix it) I am not sure what preference file to suggest trashing.
    But you can be very selective, when knowledgeable, and do that. Then,
    later on, when you restart the computer the default setting would return.
    You could set that to whatever (if not the default) & that may fix the matter.
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    can do bad things (same as booted Disk Utility, drastic tools are onboard.)
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    having chosen all the check-box choices, so it will do those. I also have OnyX
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    to be set back to your choice, as it can be also set to wipe caches or other old
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    over the similar system in your computer. 10.5.8 over 10.5.8. Then restart and go in
    and repair disk permissions again. Perhaps later on, safeboot and do them.
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    it is best to fix issues and not hope to upgrade over them. Unless it is a totally new
    bare-bones secure zero-overwritten drive, correct partition map, reformat, new install.
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  • List view status of flagged messages in Yosemite Mail Smart Folders

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  • Icon Preview Problem in Finder

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    I've had my new MacBook for about a month now, and as my photo collection has grown I'm starting to notice that while using CoverFlow (which I have as the default view for most of my folders), there are always some icons that appear as a generic JPEG icon instead of having the image preview. This problem goes away (all icons have previews) once I open the same folder again or refresh it somehow (for example by selecting Calculate All Sizes in View Options). However, once I restart/log in again, it happens again. Most of the images are normal JPG's from the web, and which ones have missing previews is completely random. This applies to all of my folders, and I've seen the same thing on several other Macs as well (the family iMac and several others in Apple Stores). This only appears in CoverFlow view, though.
    Here are a couple of screenshots to illustrate the problem:
    http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l4/Octavarius/Screenshot-IconsinFinder.jpg
    http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l4/Octavarius/Screenshot-IconsinFinder2.jpg
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    Regards,
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    Message was edited by: Jacob Matheus

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    Can't find any new/recent posts to solve this issue. I want to disable/turn-off the little icon preview in finder.
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