Q: I Cant view thumbnail versions of Raw Files (.arw) in finder when i upgraded to Lion.

On the 27th of april 2012 still the same problem here!

Rather a nasty thing when you have to work your way through vast collections of .ARWs....

Apple - whip this out now, finally!!  This dawdling is not what we may expect from a world brand dedicated to semi- and full-professional mutimedia processing clients!

Next Update (10.7.4). Still no thumbnails of ARW-Files...

Same here.  (10.7.4)  RW2 file from DMC-LX5 no show in icon view.  No luck in cover flow view.  Only in columns view.  Of course one can spend hours if not days, scared and sweating, struggle through all the steps and hope something will work... but then, why pay $2500 for an MBP?  Why not just use a $500 PC laptop?

These guys at Apple is, well, so sad.

The Camera Raw Update 3.13 (24.5.2012) didnt change anything... in Snow Leopard it was working fine... in Lion it never worked for me...

Mee too.  10.7.4...nope.   CRU 3.13... nope.

On a MacBook Pro and iMac (both i7 quad)

This problem has been reported on continually since Lion.  This is reflecting very, very poorly on Apple.  If Cougar, I mean Mountain Lion still has this issue... i dunnow what to say.

When I load images on my computer, I first sort them into folders named based on the event or location.  Not seeing the icon images wastes a lot of time.

I have the solution, without necessary restart, just a quick method and it works.

First: go in finder to the directory that doesn't show the thumbnails. Then go to Library ("Go" menu in the finder, hold down the "alt/option" key on your keyboard and the option to click on "Library" will appear (by default the User Library is hidden from view)).

Then select the two files:

com.apple.finder.plist

com.apple.finder.plist.lockfile

and right click them straight to the trash.

After that:

force close the finder 2 times immediately one after the other and that's it!

Good luck

That didn't work for me. I just submitted yet another bug report about this. What do you guys think is the best way for us SONY professionals to get some "press" on this issue? Perhaps I could get SONY themselves to make a formal request to Apple to start suporting their cameras in their operating systems again?

I love your idea, if u can and know how to contact Sony can u do it? I've seen Apple doesn't care us normal users. Any way, my iMac needs update after 6 years... do I just update it to Windows 8... Now it time to Apple show us do they only want more money or more ex-customers. I'm just too tired with them.

When you get a window, after force close, you've to choose 'don't restore windows'. Maybe that'll work...

Unbelievable. Just installed Mountain Lion. Nothing changed. The same thumbnailles view we loved the last year. ..

yup. worst.

Did anyone try a fresh install or just an upgrade? I did upgrade but nothing has changed. I'm thinking of fresh installing Mountain Lion to see if things get better.

I've observe something funny...

After clean install (Lion) all works well at first but after short time os start to index harddrives for fast search more folders and files doesn't show thumbnails.

So, does enyone know how to ban os that it doesn't index hard drives?

Anyway report here if u try and heg same result than I got.

Is it the Spotlight indexing process that you're talking about? I suppose you could do a fresh install and quickly go to System Prefernces after first boot and turn off Spotlight. (by going to the Spotlight Preference Pane, then choosing Privacy, and then adding your entire hard drive to the list of directories to be ommited from Spotlight searches).

If you try that, let me/us know if it works!

Sure, I really mean Spotlight indexing process. I try clean install (once again) and try to turn that process off ... but first I have to finnish my job and come back home :-))