Seeing JPEGS as THUMBS on desktop? Vista spoiling me? Fireworks too!

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Seeing JPEGS as THUMBS on desktop? Vista spoiling me? Fireworks too!

I don't really care for vista but do like that thumb images are shown on desktop. Anyway, is there a way to see all images as thumbs?

Also, sometimes if I open an image in FIREWORKS, and then save, it then has the FW ext instead of the thumbnail for the .png. What is the best way to REFRESH the whole OSX so all images show up as thumbnails or what files, "DO" show up as thumbs?

Thanks!

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.8), 1 GB DDR2,

Posted on Jul 19, 2007 2:31 PM

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CNG Tech

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Jul 19, 2007 6:29 PM in response to Hi I'm A Mac

With just your desktop showing go to VIEW at the top. then select SHOW VIEW OPTIONS. From the popup check SHOW ICON PREVIEW. This should make a picture thumbnail for all your pics.

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Answer 2

Jul 19, 2007 6:35 PM in response to Hi I'm A Mac

And you can change the thumb image size by draging the pointer on top!

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Jul 20, 2007 6:53 AM in response to Hi I'm A Mac

If you enable icon preview (in the View menu) then you will see image files. Vista offers icon previews for more file formats than Mac OS X, and Linux KDE more than either (including movie previews, font previews, SVGs, PDFs, PostScript files, text files, playing sounds when you mouse-over them, etc.).

I haven't checked, but I suspect that making a simple plugin for file previews in OS X is nearly as easy as doing it for KDE. I think the reason Vista has more than OS X is because it's kind of a pain to build a preview plug-in, and the reason KDE has more is some combination of the fact that it's user-designed and because it's been made very simple to do (once you know what you're doing, it's filling in a dozen lines in a template and you're good to go).

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Hi I'm A Mac Author

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Jul 25, 2007 6:17 AM in response to CNG Tech

Whoo hoo, that worked - - does Lynda.com talk about this I wonder, or the .MAC account tutorials?

Thanks for the other tips. You guys rock!

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Hi I'm A Mac Author

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Jul 25, 2007 6:21 AM in response to J D McIninch

I should have asked this before checking SOLVED, why is it sometimes PDF files show up in MAC mail as a preview, other times as an attachment?

Tried different methods, and if it shows up as an attachment, there seems to be NO WAY to get it to show up as a PREVIEW for the recipient!

Thanks!

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Jul 27, 2007 3:18 AM in response to Hi I'm A Mac

For a single page PDF file, it shows up as preview; but multiple pages PDF file shows up as an attachment.

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