How to discover what went wrong when a document doesn’t show the right thumbnail, but a generic icon instead. How to dive deeper to solve problems with 3rd party thumbnail and preview generators.
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Apple has released its regular weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
Most apps save settings in their preferences file managed by cfprefsd as the UserDefaults server. Here’s how to avoid problems that can cause, and how to use the defaults command.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 360. Here are my solutions to them. 1: With parents […]
Generating icons for display as thumbnails, and previews of documents, depend on speed of delivery and icons as faithful as possible for their size. How QuickLook achieves this in Tahoe.
Soon after introducing iCloud and iCloud Drive, Apple changed the way most metadata was handled to ensure it was synced up to the cloud. Recently this has been reversed, and little metadata is now synced. Was this an accident or intentional? What is the workaround?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: With parents […]
From the first image thumbnails around 35 years ago, the Mac has delivered better thumbnails and previews of documents, most recently using QuickLook. Here’s how it works, and how it can fail.
Traces the path of metadata from inside a PDF document and its extended attributes, to those in Spotlight’s indexes and displayed in the Finder. Only a third survived that journey.
This new version adds a drag-and-drop window to inspect the metadata of files using mdimport and mdls.
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