Finder Slideshow only showing thumbnails

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Finder Slideshow only showing thumbnails

Slideshow has changed: a few days ago it opened the first selected image in a grey window which could be stretched to fill the screen.

Today, it's opening a large thumbnail with filename in bold alongside and file size/last modified data.

Any ideas how to return it to proper Slideshow function? I can't see anything in the file options (doesn't mean it isn't there!)

Monterey 12.5.1

Only recent change is installation of 'ABetterFinderRename11'

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Sep 29, 2022 12:06 AM

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Answer 1

_JohnJZ Author

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Sep 29, 2022 05:59 AM in response to dialabrain

Thanks, it does seem to have rebooted working as expected. Mystery as to why it went into that basic info kind of display - wondering if it is an option I haven't seen documented or a bug?

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Answer 2

Sep 29, 2022 06:09 AM in response to _JohnJZ

That is what Apple calls Quicklook.

Thank you for clarifying.

And I see that it is working now. Good. Rebooting can fix one-off weirdness and often we have no idea why the problem happened.

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_JohnJZ Author

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Sep 29, 2022 05:51 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Select a few (or a lot) of files in finder, press the SpaceBar and it should show them one at a time: navigate through with the arrow keys. Or use Option-Spacebar to open full screen. Or hold Option, click on Edit and it's just above Print in the menu

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dialabrain

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Sep 29, 2022 06:02 AM in response to _JohnJZ

_JohnJZ wrote:

Thanks, it does seem to have rebooted working as expected. Mystery as to why it went into that basic info kind of display - wondering if it is an option I haven't seen documented or a bug?

Oops. You hadn't posted this yet. FWIW, It's not an option nor a bug. It is a cache issue that only occurs on occasion for some. It's actually never happened to me on 7 different Macs.

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