My Mac (Mojave) Finder window often fails to show me an image thumbnail of any selected SketchUp or LayOut files, instead displaying only a generic blank placeholder. I am looking for any file viewer software that will do a better job of showing me a graphic image (the more detailed the better) of each file WITHOUT having to open each one. Most of the file viewer products I can find out there do not list .skp and .layout file formats as compatible. Any leads would be most appreciated!
This isnāt a solution. It doesnāt work and even when it does, itās temporary, replaced by a generic icon a moment later, exhibiting the exact behavior originally noted.
I know, but it identifies the problem.
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Checkout Component finder of Flextools:
ComponentFinder ā FlexTools
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ā¦ with SketchUp software.
my old extension āAdd Iconā from the dark days of NO mac previews at all, still seems to work on v19 even though I havenāt updated it for a few versionsā¦
itās in the SketchUcation Plugins storeā¦
john
Yea, but until we fix it, you could crontab -e and every couple of minutes do qlmanage -r.
I canāt tell if youāre joking or not.
Thatās the beauty of the response: if you know what cron is, itās very practical. If you donāt and donāt care, itās a joke. Works for everyone. I filed the bug for it, which I should have done after my original post when Mojave came out. My bad.
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Thanks Mike - Component Finder does work pretty well, and accomplishes what I need. It can be used to view icon images of ALL SU & LO files, not just āComponentsā, which makes it very helpful. Sorry for the delay in thanking you!
Iām noticing that Mojave is doing a better job with Quick Look on my machine. The only icons that werenāt working were old models (circa SketchUp 6, 7 or 8), and opening those files and saving then gave me a preview in Quick Look. Anyone else observe this?
yes, itās the same on all versions of mac since apple switched to 64 bitā¦
the stored images are there and can be extracted, but can not be read by quicklook unless updated with a new saveā¦
john
But mine previously mine was hanging, and thatās not happening. Iām upgrading to 10.14.6 just to confirm, but itās better for me than the initial Mojave release.
Edit: 10.14.6 installed, and no, itās not a lot better. I had to do at least one āsudo qlmanage -rā in order to see an update. So I wont close the issue.
I think it was Millard, in the mist of time, said that SU was embedding pngās that suited 32 bit OSās, that intel macās had issues readingā¦
but that should only affect pre v17 skpāsā¦
john
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