No thumbnails for afphoto files in finder or ACDSee

[RobynS]

Just upgraded to Photos 2.  I have been using ACDsee to manage all my images but now it is not able to show thumbnails of the new  afphoto files.  I also do not see thumbnails using Finder on my mac.    ACDSee says this is an Apple problem, do you agree?

[markw]

Hello RobynS and welcome to the Affinity forums🙂
First things first, in Photo v2; Preferences > General, do you have 'Save thumbnails with documents' selected?

[v_kyr]

Welcome!

See related:

• How to preview webp files with Quick Look on macOS
• Quick Look Plugin for WebP Files
• WebP Viewer: quick look & view
• ... etc.

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, v_kyr said:

See related:

It doesn't seem to me that what @RobynS is having problems with is limited to WebP files since there is a mention of "thumbnails of the new  afphoto files."

I think what @markw suggested about checking in AP 2 preferences to see if saving thumbnails is enabled is probably the solution for this issue.

[v_kyr]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

It doesn't seem to me that what @RobynS is having problems with is limited to WebP files since there is a mention of "thumbnails of the new  afphoto files."

Seems I mixed that in mind up with another webp Win related thread! - For Affinity app format files on MacOS, Serif includes & installs a Quick Look add-on enhancement with every MacOS version app, so that the MacOS Finder can show up thumbnail previews of those. So what markw suggested applies here to check, since if there are no thumb images saved together in any Affinity doc file, then MacOS Finder might not be able to show any thumb preview. - Behavior should be easily to test via performing a Quick Look operation in Finder with an Affinity file, with the option enabled & disabled.

[RobynS]

Thank you all for replying so quickly.  I do have 'save thumbnails' selected.  I will check the quick look now

 

[RobynS]

Ok, while Finder does not show thumbnails in Icon mode, the quick look does work.   The older Affinity files show a thumbnail icon.

 

[RobynS]

Having "quick look"ed at the files,  I restarted the computer and presto there were thumbnails.  So I guess it was just a glitch.  Thanks for your help!