Preview Image on folders in Mac Finder

[Dr Zauis101]

hi All

wanted to ask this great forum if anyone knows of how I can see an image of the pdf in the icon view in mac finder. like in windows! like if there is an addon app of sorts for mac sillly con

just seeing all blue folders then having to open each folder is a total lack of insight on apple's engineers and I do not ever use list view with space bar as an option.

look forward to hearing back.

have a great day.

 

[galad]

It's not like preview in folders scales well, Windows shows what? 4 preview per folder?
I don't think it's possible to make a Quick Look plugin to customize the folder icon, but there is https://apps.apple.com/en/app/folder-preview/id6698876601 to quickly see the content by pressing the space bar.

 

[Gregg2]

an image of the pdf in the icon view …

just seeing all blue folders

What are you wanting to see the image of? Is it a .pdf file, or the folder containing pdf files?

I have a .pdf file on my desktop, and I see a microscopic image, with colors. I see a list on this preview image. When doing a "Quick Look" I see the same things enlarged, where I would expect to see them from the preview image. My icon size is 72X72 and when I make it smaller, the image shrinks. So it's not a matter of being too small at some point and displaying a generic icon, such as PDF across the image.