Add Thumbnail app for OSX 10.6.5?

[RonArt]

I've recently (finally) upgraded to SnowLeopard and I'm having a difficult time finding an application that will simply allow me to ADD a thumbnail to an image file.

The ones that I have tried create an ADDITIONAL file that includes the thumbnail rather than adding the thumbnail to the file itself.

I realize we can nolonger use contextual menu plugins so QuickImageCM no longer works... but I would think there should at least be an app out there somewhere that would allow me to drag-and-drop a file on to it to create a thumbnail for it.

The apps I've tried are: ThumbsUp, Th-MakerX_310, and CocoThumbX

And though CocoThumbX does add a 'thumbnail' to the actual file... it creates one that does not really represent the full image, but rather only a detail of the image (very misleading when looking for an image file... i.e. useless).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Ron

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Why don't you use the "Show icon preview" feature accessible via View Options (Cmd+J) and either Icon View or Cover Flow?

Or: http://hubpages.com/hub/How_to_Change_Icons_in_Mac_OS_X

 

[RonArt]

simsaladimbamba,

Thanks for posting.

Often times I need to make aliases of image files.

SL's icon view does not work with aliases of an image file that did not originally have a thumbnail. Instead all you see is the app creator icon.

As far as the Get Info copy/paste procedure it won't work with an image that does not have an icon. Just if you want to paste another icon onto the file. Whereas I simply want the file to show what the original image is.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

I have done the following to accomplish the below screenshot.

I created an alias of the image, opened the original image in Preview, selected the complete image via Cmd+A and copied it via Cmd+C and opened the Get Info Inspector of the alias and copied the image onto the icon, like described in the second link of my first post in this thread.

 

[RonArt]

Need a drag-and-drop method for hundreds of images.

I do appreciate your help and your way no doubt works.

But since I often have a great number of these that I have to do I need a drag-and-drop method to expedite the process.

CocoThumbX works but it produces blurry thumbnails.

QuickImageCM used to work superbly until Apple stopped supporting CM plugins.

Again thanks for your workaround.