Viewing photos/images in Finder

Hi,
I've been transferring photos onto an external hard drive which is going fine.
Suddenly though, in Finder it's no longer previewing the photos when you scroll through without opening the file, just an icon with 'jpeg' as shown below.
How do I change it back?
There are a lot of duplications on the external that I want to clean up and without being able to simply scroll through and see the photo it's going to take forever to sort out.
All help appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
Jacs

Let thje system run for a while so it can index those files and build a thumbnail database of them. You then may be able to view them in finder.
But I must say that if all the image files are numbered like in your screen shot it will be simple to find dups of those files, the numbers are the same.

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