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bigllc

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Aug 9, 2013
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Hello. I am new to Mac and pulling my hair out at some of the limited UI options

I am wanting my image-files and video-files to appear in Finder (desktop etc) as thumbnails

However, I DON'T want PDFs, Excel, Word, PowerPoint files to have a preview thumbnail


Basically how things are now either way, it's very cumbersome visually to distinguish between file-types while cruising around my folders with a quick glance.
---if thumbnail previews are on for all, its hard to tell at a quick glance which are PDFs, Excel files vs. images
------similarly, the little "pdf" or "xlsx" or "docx" text overlay on these previews is so small and non-color coded as to be useless for quick-glance recognition of which filetype
---if thumbnails are off, it's impossible to glance at files in a folder and know which image or video each is without wasting my precious miliseconds clicking on them, or trying to actually read truncated filenames

Here are some possible solutions which I hope somebody knows how to do:
--globally enable or disable icon previews by filetype (preferred)

--stipulate adding overlayed mini icons to certain filetypes
----example: if it's a pdf, show the icon preview, but overlayed on that would be the red Adobe pdf icon/logo roughly a quarter of the size of the file icon (like is possible in Windows 7).
----this way image and video previews can be seen at a glance, but having a big red or green or blue logo makes for immediate recognition of filetype

--(least prefered but could help) ...somehow change the font color and increase the font size of the overlayed "pdf" "xlsx" "doc" "pptx"
----currently standard on these filetypes while showing icon preview but ALL are miniscule black text no matter which filetype

I'm quite dumbfounded right now that something for better immediate-glance filetype recognition isn't standard, or at least easily Google'able. All I've found is the Either/Other bamboozle.

Would love it to hear of a solution for this. Thanks all.
 
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