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From: Wes Groleau on 28 Apr 2010 22:28 I have some jpegs I got recently from cousins. In Finder, their icons are invisible, and their previews are each a square of only one color, with each a different color. Looks like a bunch of color choice cards from a paint store. :-) In GraphicConverter browser, their icons are the Finder previews and the preview on the right is normal. If I open one, edit it, and save it to another filename, the new file has the same behavior. Having GC generate previews makes no visible change. All of my 100 or 200 jpegs from before have normal previews. -- Wes Groleau Some schools are cutting back on homework … http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1508
From: M-M on 28 Apr 2010 22:50 In article <hraqs6$6d6$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > I have some jpegs I got recently from cousins. In Finder, their icons > are invisible, and their previews are each a square of only one color, > with each a different color. Looks like a bunch of color choice cards > from a paint store. :-) > > In GraphicConverter browser, their icons are the Finder previews and the > preview on the right is normal. If I open one, edit it, and save it to > another filename, the new file has the same behavior. > > Having GC generate previews makes no visible change. > > All of my 100 or 200 jpegs from before have normal previews. What happens when you cmd-J the containing folder and select "show icon preview"? -- m-m http://www.mhmyers.com
From: dorayme on 28 Apr 2010 23:00 In article <hraqs6$6d6$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > I have some jpegs I got recently from cousins. In Finder, their icons > are invisible, and their previews are each a square of only one color, > with each a different color. Looks like a bunch of color choice cards > from a paint store. :-) > > In GraphicConverter browser, their icons are the Finder previews and the > preview on the right is normal. If I open one, edit it, and save it to > another filename, the new file has the same behavior. > > Having GC generate previews makes no visible change. > > All of my 100 or 200 jpegs from before have normal previews. When you select one of these files, does their name actually end in .jpg or .jpeg? What is it set to open with in Get Info? Is it set to open with the same app that your unsurprisingly behaved jpgs are set to open with. Have you tried resetting anyway in the Get Info panel and do the "Change all" thing? -- dorayme
From: Wes Groleau on 28 Apr 2010 23:33 On 04-28-2010 23:00, dorayme wrote: > Wes Groleau<Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: >> I have some jpegs I got recently from cousins. In Finder, their icons >> are invisible, and their previews are each a square of only one color, >> with each a different color. Looks like a bunch of color choice cards >> from a paint store. :-) >> >> In GraphicConverter browser, their icons are the Finder previews and the >> preview on the right is normal. If I open one, edit it, and save it to >> another filename, the new file has the same behavior. >> >> Having GC generate previews makes no visible change. >> >> All of my 100 or 200 jpegs from before have normal previews. > > When you select one of these files, does their name actually end > in .jpg or .jpeg? What is it set to open with in Get Info? Is it > set to open with the same app that your unsurprisingly behaved > jpgs are set to open with. Have you tried resetting anyway in the > Get Info panel and do the "Change all" thing? Curiouser and curiouser. This odd behavior survived several days, several reboots, and a few invocations of GraphicConverter. I read your questions above, and went to Finder to check Info. Lo and behold, all the Finder previews have changed to the expected miniature version of the image. But the icons are still invisible, and the Graphic converter icons are still paint chips. I exited GC, and changed the app for two of the images to GC. That had no effect on the Finder view. Then I reopened GC and browsed the folder these are in. Still paint chips, including the two that had their default changed. Pointed GraphicConverter to one of the directories with older images. Surprise! These have turned into paint chips too! Checked them with Finder, and _they_ also have invisible icons now. But their Finder previews are still OK. One or more of my recent changes might explain it: - Put my G4 in TDM to migrate the older images from 10.4.x on G4 to 10.5.8 on Intel. (big-endian/little-endian bug in resource fork?) - Got the latest GC - Upgraded 10.5.8 to 10.6.3 - Installed an SSD - Used Time Machine to backup the HD and restore to the SSD. -- Wes Groleau Hostility to TPRS http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1596
From: Wes Groleau on 28 Apr 2010 23:41
On 04-28-2010 22:50, M-M wrote: > Wes Groleau<Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: >> I have some jpegs I got recently from cousins. In Finder, their icons >> are invisible, and their previews are each a square of only one color, >> with each a different color. Looks like a bunch of color choice cards >> from a paint store. :-) >> >> In GraphicConverter browser, their icons are the Finder previews and the >> preview on the right is normal. If I open one, edit it, and save it to >> another filename, the new file has the same behavior. >> >> Having GC generate previews makes no visible change. >> >> All of my 100 or 200 jpegs from before have normal previews. > > What happens when you cmd-J the containing folder and select "show icon > preview"? Without changing anything, it is already set to ON: Show icon ON: Show icon preview ON: show preview column OFF: open in column view--which pisses me off, because starting with 10.4 on a G4 eMac, and continuing to 10.5 on this MacBook, Finder has repeatedly refused to honor my selection of column view as the default for all new folder-openings. Maybe that's why in 10.6, they removed the "all folders" choice from the view options. :-( -- Wes Groleau Film Review: The Blue Butterfly http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1565 |