Photoshop CC psb thumbnail support

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Photoshop CC psb thumbnail support

Hi! First time caller 🙂

Photoshop CS6 is able to generate thumbnails in both Finder and Quicklook,but not so if the psb file is generated in Photoshop CC. I just end up with a generic blue PS icon.

Yes,I've been over to the Adobe forums: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5718963

In essense:

"Apple has not implemented icon/thumbnail extraction for PSB files. And since resource fork thumbnails are no longer working in MacOS - that leaves PSB files without thumbnails in the Finder. They had thumbnails under CS6 because of the resource fork thumbnails." Chris Cox Photoshop programmer.

Can something be done on the Mavericks end? Many of us do need psb thumbnail support.

Gene

MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Feb 20, 2014 10:15 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 13, 2017 12:57 PM in response to Genex17

For future readers, PSB Quick Look now works with MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra). Apple confirmed a bug in the Quick Look APIs, and I discovered a workaround (no thanks to Apple paid support).

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Genex17 Author

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Oct 13, 2017 2:04 PM in response to alanterra

I have a spare Macbook that I'm running 10.13 on,but the old saying goes, "do not swap out a perfectly working OS and complain to the app makers that doing so broke their software."

So holding off is a wise move.

I opened this subject here when I had OSX 10.9. For reasons I'm not privy to, psb in quicklook has not been fixed. Got to give John Ellis a proper shout out for taking the initiative.

Gene

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Oct 13, 2017 5:07 PM in response to alex_harold

The author states PSBQuickLook is not compatible with Mac OS Sierra as of today, 2017-10-13, and he does not know when he will be able to make it compatible, given his discussions with Apple Technical Support. This is one of the reasons I won't be updating my OS any time soon.

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methospr

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Feb 22, 2014 11:08 AM in response to Genex17

I have the very same issue ! - Of course I have, we all do.

Please, update Mavericks and enable these thumbnails again! It was there, once. Why was the thumbnail-support removed in the first place? It would be a _huge_ help having these thumbnails back. Thank you so much!

methos.

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Meg The Dog

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Feb 22, 2014 11:14 AM in response to methospr

The best (only?) way to get your comments and concerns directly to Apple:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

MtD

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methospr

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Feb 22, 2014 11:16 AM in response to Meg The Dog

great, thanks.

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Genex17 Author

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Feb 22, 2014 11:20 AM in response to methospr

I have 10.9.1 which is the latest. But that latest does not offer thumbnail support for the PSB format. If you are thinking about PSD format support on that is just fine.

Thanks,

Gene

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Genex17 Author

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Feb 22, 2014 11:27 AM in response to Meg The Dog

Thanks, Meg. I did do that about an hour of posting. I was looking to delete this message,but being new here, did not find anything obvious.

In any case it does help to air the issue and get more attention to it via Apple's feedback. The more who are affected by this follow your feedback link, the sooner it gets attention.

Thanks, Gene

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Kurt Lang

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Feb 22, 2014 12:02 PM in response to Genex17

I had a discussion (basically with Chris) at Adobe forums on a couple of related topics. The CC apps no longer write a resource fork because Apple told Adobe to stop using it.

The entire resource fork structure has been deprecated in Apple's documentation. So at some point (only Apple knows when), the Mac OS will become a single data structure like Windows.

It is known that .psb files will not generated any type of desktop icon in OS X. Like all CC apps, the icons and preview images are stored in the data fork of the files. It's up to the OS to read and display them.

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Meg The Dog

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Feb 22, 2014 12:47 PM in response to Kurt Lang

As a side note, Adobe Bridge does display the thumbnail for a .psb correctly - although using Bridge may not suit all users.

MtD

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Kurt Lang

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Feb 22, 2014 12:53 PM in response to Meg The Dog

Yup, but not the desktop (as you know).

I find little use for Bridge, myself. The only thing I ever open it for is when I'm in After Effects. It's great for showing you what an applied affect will do to your text, image, etc.

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Meg The Dog

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Feb 22, 2014 6:40 PM in response to Kurt Lang

Yes, the only thing I use Bridge for is the feature that lets you select multiple images and open them all as layers in a single photoshop document.

MtD

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Genex17 Author

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Feb 22, 2014 10:14 PM in response to Kurt Lang

So Apple has directed Adobe to write thumbnails a certain way, and Adobe complied as of Photoshop CC. If Adobe is in compliance, OSX should be generating psb thumbnails in a future release of OSX. PSB is not a trivial obscure format.

So let's keep focus on this. If you the audience care about this PSB issue, feedback to Apple is important.

Gene

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Kurt Lang

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Feb 23, 2014 9:59 AM in response to Genex17

I did submit a detailed bug report on .psb files, and .psd files saved without max comp not showing previews in an Open dialogue box a couple of months ago. As part of the report, I also directed Apple to the Abobe forum discussions.

Adobe has done what Apple told them to do with the elimination of the resource fork. The files now contain the desktop icon and preview as part of the data file. It's up to Apple now to read and display those embedded images.

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Genex17 Author

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Feb 23, 2014 11:22 AM in response to Kurt Lang

That's interesting, Kurt. I gather you have not gotten a reply as to where they are with this? As much as I like to believe feedback is useful, there's probably more than few thousand other issues the OSX programming team is working on and the priority and order is set by management. So I suppose non of us have an ETA.

At the meantime, I can fall back on CS6 for psb thumbs.

Gene

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