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Thank you so much. You saved my life. Had this problem with my external hard drive. And yeah, I made an account too to thank you.
Had this issue pop up spontaneously on my MBP M1 Max, and this solved the issue. Thank you for the assist!
So I just saw this problem for the first time today on my M1 Mini. I used your techniqe and it worked like a charm. Another thank you for a very helpful tip!
Thanks again to AndreBob for giving us our sanity back. It definitely works, but I'm finding it reverts more and more often as time goes on. Today I probably did the fix 12-15 times. I sort of remember a script that somebody posted that runs and stops it??? Or is that my imagination. I think it was on this site. MR actually posted a guide to fix this. Maybe it's on there.
Has anybody found a permanent solution? Extremely annoying and actually unacceptable. I wonder if AppleCare have a solution? May have to call them.
Has anybody found a permanent solution? Extremely annoying and actually unacceptable. I wonder if AppleCare have a solution? May have to call them.
Thank you! This helped me fix my issue*. Much appreciated!
* After rebooting, my Mac wasn't snowing the thumbnails of any of my desktop image files, screen shots or otherwise. Unchecking and re-checking "show icon preview" did the trick.
@andrebob THANK YOU for the force-quit "com.apple.quicklook.ThumbnailsAgent" tip! I had previously been deleting the icon cache and restarting my Mac, but this is a lot less disruptive. I still see it happens on occasion and I'm not sure why, but... at least this is a quick remedy. Appreciation for the gift that keeps on giving.
For others where this doesn't work, have you tried this? https://eclecticlight.co/2019/01/30...ments-icon-display-properly-beyond-quicklook/
For others where this doesn't work, have you tried this? https://eclecticlight.co/2019/01/30...ments-icon-display-properly-beyond-quicklook/
It's still happening for me. Nowhere near as often, but it has become tiresome at this point. I read the link you posted and that seems to identify the underlying problem and that it will never go away unless something is done about it. I'm now wondering if upgrading to Ventura in a month or two will get rid of this issue or not as the article states that installing a new OS will resolve the issue. But does that mean wiping the computer and installing or just an upgrade... mmm... I guess time will tell. It is much easier to re install an OS now with an M1/M2 so it's mainly just DLing any apps again.
@smoking monkey Sorry to hear that, sounds frustrating. I've been in similar situations with other issues before where I held out until I could install a new OS. I wonder if you've tried creating a new user on the same current OS and seeing if you can reproduce the same issue? I know that might be time-consuming. You could also try a current OS repair.
(Also, cool Sinistar profile icon!)
In my own case, I ran into the no-thumbnails again after restarting my machine, and just wanted to report that quitting "com.apple.quicklook.ThumbnailsAgent" worked again.
(Also, cool Sinistar profile icon!)
In my own case, I ran into the no-thumbnails again after restarting my machine, and just wanted to report that quitting "com.apple.quicklook.ThumbnailsAgent" worked again.
Thanks for the idea. We aren't far away from the new OS so I'm going to wait it out. If it still happens after that I'll contact Apple. But honestly, I think the answer will be -- wipe computer and reinstall. It's a PITA, but in the end it won't be such a bad thing. Good chance to get the computer lean, mean and clean!
Yeah, the quit thumbnails agent works every time. It's just how long it lasts for me is the question.
Sinistar - play it in the cabinet it originally released in and it is absolutely spine chilling!
20 something years Mac user and I never knew about this trick lol. Worked like a charm.
So the 2nd to last dot update helped significantly as I wrote above, but the dot update after that sent it back to square one for me... I hope Mac OS whateveritisthistime fixes it.
Still happening to me, I do the com.apple.quicklook.ThumbnailsAgent and it comes back. Whadda I do? Will Ventura fix this?
It's now totally out of control for me. It's happening every 30mins. It's worse than it's ever been. Whatever they fixed 2 releases ago, they broke 1 release ago. I can't wait for the new OS now to hopefully fix this. If it doesn't, I'll clean install. PITA, but I know that's what Apple will tell me to do in the end.
No. Ventura seems to have made this worse, from my experience. I'm amazed this has been such a widespread problem since 2021 or earlier and Apple has done little about it. I miss having clean thumbnails without a white border.
I've tried all solutions posted in this thread (force quitting, etc), and the only thing I've found that works for me is clicking show info on the image file, then select the file thumbnail in the top left corner, then press delete. Unfortunately this needs to be done for each individual image, so good luck if you have hundreds or thousands of photos to sort through.
I wonder if your issue is slightly different perhaps???
Maybe you might need to do a clean install and not use a time machine backup to set up. It's a PITA though.
Same. Updating to Ventura solved the issue for me... so far. It hasn't happened even once since the upgrade. I'm hoping it stays that way because it was becoming rather frustrating.