When I create aliases to image files, only a few of them have a preview image in the alias icon and thumbnail view finderworks as good as the original image files? (OS X 10.6.7)
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Yes.
Apparently OS X builds a temporary thumbnail using the actual contents of the file. It does this for all files, whether they are image files, word processor files, TextEdit files, Pages or Numbers files, etc.
It does not add a thumbnail, or custom icon, to the file - it just uses the file content to make one temporarily.
This means that when the OS is displaying an alias, it looks inside the alias for an image to use to build a temporary thumbnail. Since there is no content to an alias (an alias is nothing more than an icon and a pathname to the original file; it has no content), the OS is forced to use the 'native' icon for that file, which is the native icon of the original file, meaning the default one used by the program that created the original file.
When an actual thumbnail (custom icon) has been created and embedded in a file, that is used by the OS for display. And, since a file's custom icon is applied to an alias made to that file, the alias then also displays the custom icon (thumbnail).
Yes.
Apparently OS X builds a temporary thumbnail using the actual contents of the file. It does this for all files, whether they are image files, word processor files, TextEdit files, Pages or Numbers files, etc.
It does not add a thumbnail, or custom icon, to the file - it just uses the file content to make one temporarily.
This means that when the OS is displaying an alias, it looks inside the alias for an image to use to build a temporary thumbnail. Since there is no content to an alias (an alias is nothing more than an icon and a pathname to the original file; it has no content), the OS is forced to use the 'native' icon for that file, which is the native icon of the original file, meaning the default one used by the program that created the original file.
When an actual thumbnail (custom icon) has been created and embedded in a file, that is used by the OS for display. And, since a file's custom icon is applied to an alias made to that file, the alias then also displays the custom icon (thumbnail).
In the View Options menu for the folder containing the aliases, have you checkmarked the "Show icon preview" item?
Sorry. Your answer does not solve my problem. I made a mistake in a click
Are you at work for aliases? If so, please tell me what version you have OS X
I use OS X 10.6.7.
I think I found the problem.
When I make an alias to a freshly downloaded image file (one which I have not doctored in any way), it does not display a custom icon, even though the original file does. If I examine both the original and the alias via Get Info, the icon representation for both in the upper left of the Get Info window shows a generic icon. Apparently the OS creates a for-display-only icon for the file using the actual file contents 'on the fly', meaning it does not actually add such a thumbnail to the file, just creates it each time the file is displayed in a folder.
Just about all of the image files on my machine have been 'massaged' (processed in some manner) using GraphicConverter, whose preferences I have set to add preview and thumbnail icons to files saved or re-saved by it. These image files do have actual thumbnail and preview images embedded in the files. As a result, an alias to any of them does display the thumbnail icon for the file.
You might check the preference settings for the program you use to create or manipulate image files; if there is an option to add previews and thumbnails to files it generates, be sure that has been enabled.
If I change the option in Photoshop to generate previews OS Xthen it shows me only the poor quality QuickLook.
So I turned off the options add a thumbnail in Photoshop - onlyftedy finder handles well all the icons on the large image. psd.
But that's what you're saying is that every picture on mycomputer to run the image in the alias to be processed?
Even All segments photos from my camera? I understand it this way?
That seems to be the case, yes.
I use GraphicConverter for that. If you drop a folder full of images onto GraphicConverter, it will display all of them in a Catalog format. In doing that, it will automatically add previews and thumbnails to all the image files in the folder. It can process a folder containing many hundreds of files in one operation.
If you choose to do that, I suggest you experiment with a duplicated folder first; you may need to do a bit of tweaking before you are satisfied with the result.
I use GraphicConverter 4.6 because I don't like the redesigned features of the newer versions; you may find the newer versions suitable. You can get GraphicConverter here -
Current versions - http://www.lemkesoft.com/gc-en.html
Older versions - http://www.lemkesoft.com/content/207/download-old-versions.html
So yes, Including generation of icons in PhotoShop previewlets you see the icon image in the alias. Unfortunately, it also changes the quality of the previews of psd files in all windows of the Finder. So bad and so not well: (
Conwerts all the graphics files on my computer to themdodwać additional icons for aliases in my practice is not verydifficult.
But the same solution that you recommend actually working.
So thank you for this idea. remember it.
I know that once an alias in OS X has always had a picture ofwhy a request to Apple to not change something that is very good.
Work on the alias is very useful because of disk space and work with only one file in the form of various names, eg forcorrection, etc. .. Apple damage.
Why are my icons of aliases does not preview images do not show?
