[Solved] Image file icon resolution

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[Solved] Image file icon resolution

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Sorry if this has been asked before, but the board does not allow icon and resolution as search terms.

I've a lot of old jpg images whose Finder icons are the old [Leopard?] resolution. I know there is a way, perhaps in Terminal, to change this so that the thumbnails/icons show more detail. I can't find it via Google and it has also been suggested to me that GC is the solution, but I can't find it there either.

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Re: Image file icon resolution

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Hi Collin,

the files may contain an old low resolution custom icon in the resource fork.
So, I suggest to delete simply the resource forks of that files:
Screen Shot 2020-12-04 at 07.45.jpg
Screen Shot 2020-12-04 at 07.45.jpg (272.47 KiB) Viewed 1795 times
Now the Finder should display a default custom icon with a higher resolution content.

Note: Apply this feature only to JPEGs, PNGs, TIFFs, etc. image files.

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Re: Image file icon resolution

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Sadly it does not work for me. I'm still on Mojave so my screen is different, but in Finder with a .jpg selected I have nothing like the choices you show. And I fear even if I did I'd still have to do in on a file by file basis and I have hundreds, perhaps thousands!
Open with.jpg
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My memory was that there was a batch process.

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Re: [Solved] Image file icon resolution

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Hi Colin,

launch GraphicConverter.
Select file browse.
Select a folder with the images.
Open it.
Now you get the GraphicConverter browser.
Select the image and use the context menu.

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Thorsten
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