saving jpegs with thumbnails!

[Bob Ford]

I have a new mac mini running el capitan. And I have a puzzling problem. I collect a lot of pictures, and I’ve used Graphic Converter for years. For some reason, on this computer, my jpegs only save with a thumbnail if I keep them in the downloads folder or on the desktop. If I put them anywhere else, I lose the thumbnail.
Has Graphic Converter suddenly gone downhill? I have the newest version.
Or is the new iphone-style OS incompetent at handling graphics — unlike all previous versions of the Mac OS?
Or something else? Any help will be appreciated.

 

[pm-r]

What and how are you using to save your photos and why or what is Graphic Converter being used for or involved???

 

[Bob Ford]

At this point, all I am trying to do is save jpegs, mostly from Facebook. I then open them up on the hard drive with Graphic Converter to save them with thumbnails. Pretty simple and basic. But on this computer (mac mini), with this OS (el capitan), and Graphic Converter 10, I lose the thumbnails when I take the picture out of the downloads folder, unless I leave it on the desktop. If you are unfamiliar with Graphic converter, it has been a staple on Macs for graphics and pictures for at least 20 years.

 

[pm-r]

At this point, all I am trying to do is save jpegs, mostly from Facebook.

You need to be aware that Facebook will shrink most posted images and "saving" them may shrink them further when downloaded to your Mac.

If you click and drag such images to your desktop, they should work as you expect unless you have some basic Mac problems happening. Try opening them with a double click which would normally use the default Preview.app to open them.

Select them and hit the spacebar, and that should invoke your QuickLook to view them. The thumbnail of images is usually tied to your Finder so you may have other problems, or I suspect, trying to do too much with any downloaded or saved images.




- Patrick
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You shouldn't need to do anything with Graphic Converter unless you want to use it for some of its abilities.

 

[Bob Ford]

If you download from facebook the right way, you get the full-sized image. And I've had no problem opening pictures, whatever the source. The problem, it turns out, is with this increasingly iOS-styled operating system. I have to go to literally every folder and sub-folder on my computer, go to view>view options and click on the box for saving with thumbnail view. I never had to do that before, going all the way back to Mac OS 7.5. If it has to be done at all, it should require one setting in the finder's preferences, not having to go to each and every folder and do that.
Thanks for all the input.

 

[pm-r]

If it has to be done at all, it should require one setting in the finder's preferences, not having to go to each and every folder and do that.

Do you not have any options available with a Get Info and note the "Use as Default" for the options set??? Or has the latest macOS eliminated that as well…???

I.E.:

 

[pm-r]

If you download from facebook the right way, you get the full-sized image.

Just a P.S. in case it helps…:

"Rui Pinheiro
OCT 05, 2016 @ 22:00
This post is wrong! Unfortunately Facebook doesn’t store the original photo. All are resized to a maximum of 2048px (or 960px when “high quality” is not selected). "
https://www.dailytechtuts.com/1367/facebook-photo-original-size/





- Patrick
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[Bob Ford]

Enough with facebook already. This post was never about facebook.

I tried pm-r’s suggestion above. I hadn’t thought to do that before. I though maybe he was on to something. But it had no effect. I still have to click on “show icon preview” and “always open in icon view” with each and every folder and sub-folder containing graphics or pictures.

 

[pm-r]

I still have to click on “show icon preview” and “always open in icon view” with each and every folder and sub-folder containing graphics or pictures.

Then I'd suggest you have some problems or maybe even corrupt user Finder permissions or something messing things up for you or even goofy preferences

What happens if you boot up using Safe Boot Mode?

If no guru member comes forward with a fix for you here, I'd suggest using a google search and see if you can find a reason or fix out on the 'net.





- Patrick
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[pm-r]

I just came across this which may have a bearing on your trouble and I sure wasn't aware of:

"Use as Defaults is supposed to carry over to all newly opened Finder windows, but it doesn't change any previously opened windows. If you want to revert all previously opened windows to that view, follow these steps: …"
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5543840?start=30&tstart=0
[bold mine]

For more hits or suggestions, try the google search I used:
https://www.google.ca/search?client...&oe=UTF-8&gfe_rd=cr&ei=Ob0bWLLuM-Pe8AeSo46oBw

PS: Apparently the application 'Onyx' has the ability to cleanup and change the old view option settings. YMMV.


EDIT:
And there may be something useful you can use to fix your window view options here:
https://www.lifewire.com/set-finder-views-for-folders-and-subfolders-2260912

An interesting question now that I think about it and I don't recall having consistent but different window views as I set them since System 8 and 9 days. I just shrugged it off as a Mac OS X thing that they might fix one day.





- Patrick
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[Bob Ford]

Well that turned out to be a royal mess.
I checked out the link https://www.lifewire.com/set-finder-...olders-2260912
and followed the instructions for using automator to set the view options for all the subfolders in my pictures folder. The directions were straightforward. Then I clicked on “run” and it ran.
Then I got an error message saying it couldn’t complete the task. It included na error number. As I was writing it all down, so I could share it here, I was suddenly told the finder just quit. I tried to relaunch the finder. No good. I tried to restart the computer. No good. I tried to shut down the computer. No good. I finally had to hold down the power button until the computer turned off. Then I restarted. Then I ran Onyx figuring some cleanup was needed after all that. Doing the extensions proceeded normally. But Onyx took much longer to do the cleaning tasks — especially with the system cleaning — than I have seen before.

I do not know what to make of all that. I have had this computer for three weeks. In that time, I had to get Apple.com to re-install the system, and they upgraded it from yosemite to el capitan. I then had to do a re-install of el capitan. And now this.

 

[Bob Ford]

The Apple link you have there showed a way to go to Terminal and use the command
sudo find / -name ".DS_Store"* -exec rm {} \;
to change the view for all folders. but I only want to change the view for my many picture and graphics folders. So I tried automator again. This time it carried out the task without error messages or the finder crashing. It had the desired effect on some folders, a partial effect on other folders, and no effect at all on still others.