Can't See Actual Pictures in Finder -- See Generic JPG Icon Instead

Gena

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Right click (control click) and select show view options - check show icon preview

LN

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What's the source of these files?

Regards

TD

It really should "just work" if show preview is checked for the folder. Occasionally the Finder has a mental melt-down and displays generic icons instead. When that happens a restart of the Finder usually fixes it. Here's something else to try (and I actually prefer it for browsing images):

1. Go to the folder and open it in Finder
2. Hit Command-f to bring up the search window
3. Click on the name of the folder in the search window toolbar to escape from the idiotic "This Mac" default
4. In the Kind option, click the double arrows on the box after "is" and select Images
5. All the images should now display in the window
6. As a bonus feature, down at the bottom of the window you'll see a slider, drag it to change the size of the thumbnails--you can go all the way up to about 512 pixels, which is why I like it for browsing images

If you don't get custom thumbnails in the search window either, something is seriously borked.
Francine


Francine
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Get Info on the file in question. At the top is an icon for the file. Select it, and then hit the delete key. Close the window and see if Finder generates the thumbnail.

I have tried all the above tricks and I still see the generic jpg icon. I created my icons in Iconbuilder and it worked fine until now. The only thing I've done lately is to do any updates that have come down.

More suggestions?

I'm having this very same trouble, with icon preview turned on.

If I copy the image in preview then paste onto the icon spot in near the top of the "get info" view, then I see the (new pasted) icon in a regular finder window. But I've got hundreds of jpgs and pngs that aren't displaying the icon preview so that solution is not the way to go.

found a quick almost-fix.

right-click on the finder icon in the dock while pressing the option button. select relaunch. it should then fix most of the icons. it didn't fix all of them for me, but it seemed to help with about 95% of them.

Gena,

Not sure if you fixed this completely yet. I had exactly the same problem. Turns out it was a corrupt preference file for the finder. Simply delete the preference file (in your library folder ==> in preference folder ==> com.apple.finder.plist). Then relaunch finder (same way you did by right-click + option, then click on finder icon in dock ... or ... by force quit program and selecting finder).

Good luck!

THANK YOU! I have been struggling with this for months, but without the time to research it. As a web site and apps developer, it is unacceptable. The relaunch of the finder from the dock fixed my problem. I was searching for help along the lines of deleting preferences files as mentioned in another reply (thanks for that, which I'll try when this doesn't work for me) and found this. I feel better! 🙂

PERFECT!

This solved my problem 100%! Thank you!

Craig