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Image thumbnails not displaying in finder since updating to sequoia on my m1 MacBook pro
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.0
I regularly move several hundred photos at a time from iPhone to Macbook Air using Airdrop, then transfer them from Downloads to a folder on the desktop. It’s been fine until the Sequoia update but now the thumbnails only display in Downloads. If I move the photos to a new folder (eg on the desktop) some thumbnails are visible, but appear but then disappear, and some only appear as blank boxes, although the photo appears if I double click on the empty thumbnail box and clicking get info shows the full photo size. So it’s just the thumbnail that seems to be an issue. Hoping Apple with fix this quickly.
I’ve got several thousand photos in the Photos app and the thumbnails there are fine.
Same here - jpegs and pngs. What I've tried is opening the image in Photoshop and then saving it as a copy. The new version shows the preview icon and then I delete the one that doesn't. It's not ideal but it seems to work and all of the metadata is preserved.
I am running 15.0.1. I am having the same issue mostly with PNG files and some Jpeg. I confirmed that it is not the file by copying it to a different older Macbook not running 13.4.1 without issue. Moving file to new location on the same computer does not resolve issue. Quick Actions/Convert Image creates a new file that shows thumbnail. Very frustrating.
I doubt it is as much as Apple blocking third-party Quick Look code as the software may not have been recompiled to work with the current operating system and any Apple Frameworks that may have changed since the third-party plug-in was originally released. That is on the developer, not Apple.
I used to have a Markdown QL engine that was written several years ago that has not been updated or worked since macOS Big Sur because the original developer never stayed engaged with keeping it current.
In that Finder Window that you just provided a screenshot, press cmd+J to open the Show View Options panel. Is the Show icon preview selected, and if not, by selecting it do the generic icons change to their respective image?
When those PNGs were produced, was there an option to include an icon image that may have been overlooked?
Indexing is definitely an issue with Sequoia. Since 15.1, it’s better, but there are still folders at times in which thumbnails do not show, just the image icons. Also, I can’t airdrop files anymore to my wife’s older MacBook, which I was able to do without issue before Sequoia. When I try, it responds with a failure message.
I wish to add here, all of my software produce files that no longer have thumbnails. I have Moho pro 14, Corel Painter, Rhino 7, and CorelDraw that now no longer show thumbnails for their native files within Finder after migrating to a new Mac with OS Seqouia. That would be formats: 3dm, Moho, CDR and RIFF. Hope this helps, thanks in advance
Since the update to Sequoia 15.1, I'm getting thumbnails for my Canon raw files .CR2, TIFF files and JPEGs, BUT NOT my .DNG files, which are ironically produced by my iPhone 15 Pro Max and are displayed as thumbnails in Photos.
Immediately after updating from 15.01 to 15.1, the battery on my Apple M1 MacBook Pro drained much faster than previously, but that seems to have slowed down. The launch-at-startup antivirus comes up almost immediately when logging in, which is also a change. It came up much slower before the update to 15.1.
So there's been progress with this issue, but there's still a ways to go.
Can you me a bit more specific about what you are not seeing? Are we talking about the images that Finder displays for different parts of you Mac, like Applications, Documents, Desktop?
Clicking on one image and Get Info and see what "Open With" shows. On mine it shows Preview.
This is probably the only way. But I have a lot of files in different folders, and it's not very convenient to convert. I hoped there would be a fix in 15.0.1, but nothing has changed. Thanks anyway!
You mean they actually blocked third party thumbnail previews on purpose? What would be the rationale, if any? Safety?
This is usually a preferences updating problem.
Try deleting the com.apple.finder.plist and relaunching the the finder.
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Is there any Nikon software you can use. Like the NX Studio.app?
why are image thumbnails not displaying in finder since updating to sequoia on my m1 MacBook pro
