[Sharky K.]

In OS 9 a lot of images got a small preview. I want OS X to delete those previews and create its own in the column view of OSX.

[Developer]

Use the terminal to cp those files. That should remove the resource fork.

[Sharky K.]

how do I do that? it is about 1000 + images in folders

[Sharky K.]

I get:

usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i] [-p] src target
cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i] [-p] src1 ... srcN directory

and I don't understand that please help me

[sadie]

Given the number of threads that I've seen wanting to do stuff to previous images, it'd probably be worthwhile for the OS to have more intelligent handling of them. Don't you think so, Apple? (nag nag, hint hint...)

[Mactoid]

Originally posted by Sharky K.:
<STRONG>how do I do that? it is about 1000 + images in folders</STRONG>

Just copy the entire folder at once. Do the following command

<font face = "courier">cp -r picFolder picCopy</font>

Then all the pictures in picCopy will have the previews stripped off.

[DannyVTim]

You could do it with graphic converter. select browse and then browse the folder with the images. Select all of the images and then right click and select rebuild thumbnails and it will rebuild them.

[Sharky K.]

Originally posted by Mactoid:
<STRONG>

Just copy the entire folder at once. Do the following command

&lt;font face = "courier"&gt;cp -r picFolder picCopy&lt;/font&gt;

Then all the pictures in picCopy will have the previews stripped off.</STRONG>

Oke I found how that works


but it didn't worked.


[ 01-09-2002: Message edited by: Sharky K. ]

[Sharky K.]

nobody?

[Developer]

Was hat nicht funktioniert?

The preview resources did get copied? That would be a real surprise to me. Or are you seeing the previews in the Finder's column view? Those are generated on the fly even without a preview resource.

[Sharky K.]

why is that preview so small and ugly?

edit: when I use Adobe's Save for web without editing it has a nice preview btw

[ 01-10-2002: Message edited by: Sharky K. ]

[Developer]

I don't see that.

Which preview are you talking about? The preview in the resource fork, the on the fly preview generated by the Finder, or the custom icon?

And what exactly do you want to do? Get rid of it?

[Sharky K.]

Originally posted by Developer:
<STRONG>I don't see that.

Which preview are you talking about? The preview in the resource fork, the on the fly preview generated by the Finder, or the custom icon?

And what exactly do you want to do? Get rid of it?</STRONG>

The preview that is shown in the column view. When the finder creates a preview on the fly I always see it has the max size of the column size... but now not :-?

I tried to host a picture on my webserver and tried to download it with a browser and i also tried to compress it with .tgz (I thought that you will loose resource fork with that compression?)

both do nothing.

[Sharky K.]

I think I found it... how big may a picture be so the finder creates a "nice" preview?

[Developer]

When the finder creates a preview on the fly I always see it has the max size of the column size

It seems to have a maximum of about 150x150 pixels. Don't know if that's always been the case.

If you want larger ones, why not use GraphicConverter to generate the previews. It lets you specifiy their size.

[Sharky K.]

you didn't quoted me right... i said, but not now... in this case it isn't

I think because the photo's are too large (I am almost sure)


edit: i don't like what graphicconvertor does to the jpg compression so i don't really trust that app.

[ 01-10-2002: Message edited by: Sharky K. ]