Icon Thumbnails

[Ben17]

After Sequoia 15.1 update, icon thumbnails are missing again. From now I can see generic icons only. Weird...

[MikeTO]

I just updated to 15.1 and am seeing the same issue.

[MikeTO]

I think it just got turned off with the update to 15.1.

1. Choose System Settings > General > Login Items & Extensions
2. Click Quick Look at the bottom
3. Reselect QuickLookShareExtension and ThumbnailShare Extension for each app
4. Restart macOS

Edited October 30, 2024 by MikeTO
Added restart macOS

[sfparker]

I have the login items checked, but only getting the small square thumbnail.

[MikeTO]

You might need to restart macOS. Some afpub files changed for me right away and others didn't. Rebooting and they all seem to have changed now.

[sfparker]

... Rebooted after installing & activating everything today.

[MikeTO]

I had to do a reboot after selecting these options. If you've already done that, I don't know why it's not working for you.

[sfparker]

Thanks, yes I have them checked. Your fix works for the 15.1 issue, but looking back at the other thread, the small thumbnails appear to be a separate issue.

Lots to follow today.

 

 

[MikeTO]

My little Finder thumbnails were all gone but they're all back now. I don't know what to suggest. I can't say for certain that turning on the Quick Look extensions solved it or whether it was time or the reboot, but I have no issues now.

[Ben17]

There is nothing in my QuickLook list so, I cannot change anything. I restarted my Mac, deleted the Affinity Photo Beta 2.6 app. and reinstalled it. I restarted my Mac again. And there still no thumbnails. Am I missing something?

[MEB]

Hi @Ben17,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
We're still working on the QuickLook extensions, which aren't functioning at the moment. I've updated the existing report, and the Affinity Info Bot will post a notification in this thread as soon as the QuickLook preview issue is resolved.

The icon thumbnails are now working as intended, showing a small preview of the file contents instead of the generic app icon.

Thank you for your feedback!

[Affinity Info Bot]

An issue raised in this thread ("Quick Look on Sequoia isn't showing the full thumbnail preview and is instead showing it as a 'folder' preview") has now been reported to the developers by the testing team (Ref: AF-4749). Thank you very much for reporting this issue to us.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Quick Look on Sequoia isn't showing the full thumbnail preview and is instead showing it as a 'folder' preview" (REF: AF-4749) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.0.2831). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.

[Ben17]

I just installed Beta 2.6.0.2831 new version and everything looks good now. I can see thumbnails and Quick Look show a bigger image preview. Thanks a lot for your support and good work.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "[macOS] Native Affinity files not generating thumbnail previews in Sequoia"  and "Quick Look on Sequoia isn't showing the full thumbnail preview and is instead showing it as a 'folder' preview" (REF: AF-3857 & AF-4749) has been fixed by the developers in the latest release build (2.5.6.2887). The fix is available from today in  the 2.5.6 customer release .

If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.

[dcarvalho84]

I think honestly that for the thumbnails it's ok, for the quicklook preview, and since you guys are rewriting this it could be much better. I just think that for graphic design apps the quicklook preview is not acceptable sorry, a blurried image couldn't be what we get. Every other app i have in my machine produces a crisp clean quicklook preview, some of them produces almost a full screen high quality preview, and what we have from design apps is a blurried preview, sorry but you guys need to do it better. @Patrick Connor

[sfparker]

Unfortunately not seeing improvement from beta, other than page shape with QL. (I did the following: Installed 2.5.6 for all, deleted betas, activated new quicklook extensions, and then rebooted.)

 @Affinity Info Bot