Why are the File Symbols of miniscule size?

If I control-click and select Show layout alternative (this may be an erronous retranslation from Swedish back to English: hope you can understand me anyhow) I find a screen for e g the Desktop showing various alternatives (Symbol size, space between symbols etc). Also Preview of symbols can be selected. If I select this option, the file symbols shrink to become almost invisible. I have not observed this behavior before. So I don't know what affects this change. Hope you can help me. I have made screen shots showing the difference. But I don't know how to attach them to this post.
Best regards,
Leif

Hello Myorse, Certainly screenshots would have helped. At this point, can suggest that you could try to use the 'slider' of the icon size to adjust the size. I tried to make this smallest on my computer and it reduced to size 16x16, which is small but not 'almost invisible' as you say. Try to move the slider and see if they spring back to visible size.
If that does not help, you might have to trash your preferences file.

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