Finder icon view

[sking1001]

Has anyone else seen this? Sorry to bother, but I have searched extensively with no luck.



Any ideas?


Thanks,
sking

[simbalala]

They’ve had the resource fork stripped off. Doing a Photoshop “Save for Web” will give you a similar result. The icon and preview images are saved as “extras” in the file unless otherwise specified.

If you open one of those in Photoshop or a similar program and do a “Save As” with the Preview and Icon views enabled it will look like the others.

Here, you can experiment with Grim Ripper ( http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9105 ) to strip the resource fork from a copy of one that has the image in Finder view. That will help you understand what’s going on.

When the images are saved to a web server you generally don’t want the preview or icon images saved, they’re needless bloat.

[sking1001]

Thanks for the reply!

Right...the images saved from Photoshop don't have this problem.

That would explain why, when using Finder to copy from my mounted card, the images *NEVER* had resource forks. That's why I started using Image Capture to get the images from my card.

It's very strange though, that when I use Image Capture.app to get the images from my card, it saves the resource fork for some images, but not others.

Thanks again for the info. Maybe Image Capture.app has a random bug??

[simbalala]

Image Capture, being an Apple app, is creating the preview and icon views on the fly as it saves them. You can be sure the camera is not creating them.

Why those images don't have the icon views I can't guess. If you experiment you'll probably figure it out. I don't care about resource forks and often strip them because I mostly want images for web use or email.

I use ImageBrowser which does a nice job of creating thumbnails on the fly when I want visual clues.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15033

[sking1001]

Ah...very cool....was actually looking for an app like that.

Thanks again simbalala!

[sking1001]

Is there a time limit on when you can edit a post? I can't seem to edit anymore...unless I'm just blind and overlooking it.

Anyway, I need to edit this, because I'm going to kill the links on the server.

sking

[bobw]

Not sure what the time limit is, but I've removed the link.

[sking1001]

Thanks Bob!