Thomahawk Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Document icons are meant to identify quickly what kind of document it is. In a list with document icons that represent visual content of the document, that identification is sorely missing. So its necessary, at least as option, to shut off the use of visual representative icons. In list view it makes no sense anyway because of the size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted December 19, 2018 Staff Share Posted December 19, 2018 Hi @Thomahawk, By default, we embed the preview within the .afdesign and .afphoto files. If you wish not to, you can disable this in Preferences > General > Save thumbnails with documents. With this off, it will only give you a default, Affinity Photo or Designer icon. Thanks, Gabe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 19, 2018 Staff Share Posted December 19, 2018 Hi Thomahawk, macOS display thumbnails for all images types even on list view. The Affinity Photo documents in your screenshot don't have them because Save thumbnail with documents was unticked in Affinity Preferences, General section. With it disabled the document icons are used instead however this will affect all view types (not only list view) in Finder. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomahawk Posted December 19, 2018 Author Share Posted December 19, 2018 Right. But I can not find an option in AF Designer to shut off thumbnail icons. // UPDATE: I just found it. In German version its called "Miniaturen" - great! For me its not important if it affects all view types. The important thing is to be able to see instantly the type of document (for what icons originally were intended). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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