Cannot view thumbnails on my Mac Studio in Search

Eric

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This problem was inherited from my older Mac Studio as a result of restoring it seems. It works on my other MBP just fine and my current Mac Studio with a different profile.

When I search with the Icon view, it shows large icons instead of actual thumbnails, as it does properly when I simply view the directory. What I have tried with no success:
  • Force quitting the com.appple.quicklook.ThumbnailsAgent and then force quitting Finder
  • Deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
  • Going into View > Show View Options > toggling "show icon preview"
It's a frustrating issue with so much media not to be able to see what I'm searching for and filetype doesn't seem to matter, they show a default application icon.

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Could be a quicklook extension causing havoc. Other than that I can’t think of many causes for this. But would try disabling the extensions
 
casperes1996 said:
Could be a quicklook extension causing havoc. Other than that I can’t think of many causes for this. But would try disabling the extensions
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Also just realizing it's only on the external SSD drives, found an informative post here but there is still no resolution from the looks of it. TLDR it worked before a Sonoma update, then resolved but still not working for some (like me) regardless of formatting, etc.
 
Eric said:
Also just realizing it's only on the external SSD drives, found an informative post here but there is still no resolution from the looks of it. TLDR it worked before a Sonoma update, then resolved but still not working for some (like me) regardless of formatting, etc.
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Interesting. I’m on latest Tahoe beta and haven’t noticed this issue on my external drives. That said I’m not by my Macs this weekend and am not sure if the issue exists and I just haven’t noticed cause I don’t keep that much on external or if the issue isn’t there
 
casperes1996 said:
Interesting. I’m on latest Tahoe beta and haven’t noticed this issue on my external drives. That said I’m not by my Macs this weekend and am not sure if the issue exists and I just haven’t noticed cause I don’t keep that much on external or if the issue isn’t there
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Upgrading to Tahoe now and will report back.
 
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