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Image files show an icon, but no thumbnail image on the icon

This started happening recently after an update. MAC Mini M1 running MAC OS Monterey 12.3.1 I am a news photographer and I use hundreds of images on a daily basis. On my internal and external drives, the thumbnails do not show after a short period of time. A reboot fixes it temporarily but then it happens again. It's very frustrating trying to view hundreds a of files in order to choose one without having a preview showing.... It's making my editing take hours instead of minutes. For example. I load up an SD card and the images show fine on opening the finder for that SD Card. Then I copy the files to a folder on one of my other drives and they fail to show a preview there. Unless I reboot after copying them. It's really driving me crazy trying to work...

Mac mini, macOS 12.3

Posted on May 4, 2022 5:32 AM

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Posted on May 4, 2022 5:47 AM

Try booting into Safe Mode, then restart normally.

How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support

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