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Re: Getting thumbnail of document to appear?
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Re: Getting thumbnail of document to appear?


  • Subject: Re: Getting thumbnail of document to appear?
  • From: Chris Ridd <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 07:17:26 +0000

On 7/11/02 3:53 pm, Brent Gulanowski <email@hidden> wrote:
> "custom" icon. You can make a custom icon by cutting and pasting, and
> no, it doesn't use the resource fork, it uses a hidden .icns file --
> although I guess custom icons in resource forks are still supported in
> the finder. There are many text-based file types, for example, that the

They are still supported, and the only app I've tried which creates preview
icons for files - the carbonized Graphic Converter - creates something in
the files' resource forks.

How would a hidden .icns file work for a directory containing lots of files
with preview icons?

> Note: I'm sure we don't want to use this discussion to start a
> rant-a-thon about metadata all over again, tempting though it is :-).

Indeed :-)

Cheers,

Chris
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