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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: Brent Gulanowski <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 02:54:32 -0500

On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 02:17 AM, Chris Ridd wrote:

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?


Are you confusing file previews with custom icons? I thought they were very different.

Photoshop is another app that creates custom icons -- no idea if they are in the resource fork or not, but probably.

The Finder displays previews by actually reading the file and generating the "icon" or text preview live. I thought this was what the OP meant, but then I was also distracted by this other pre-generated custom icon discussion. Anyway my hard drive has a custom icon which appears as
-rw-r--r-- 1 brentgul admin 62485 Sep 4 23:02 .VolumeIcon.icns
I can't find the ones I have on my folders, but they don't seem to affect the reported size of the folder either way.

And I didn't think any Apple software used the resource fork any more.

What's in the Desktop DF -- window positions? Could that also hold custom icons?

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