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Mac Forum / General / General / May 2008Leopard can't display image resolution of old images?
Why do only newly-created JPGs and PNGs in a Leopard Finder window display the resolution but not images that were created in Tiger, Panther, Jaguar or Puma? Of course, this rule isn't always true -- sometimes by clicking/unclicking "Show Item Info" in "Show View Options" will fix this on some images but not all. The image resolution is hardly OS-dependent so why is Leopard so lame? In article <c4a6810c-6bd1-4965-a1cd-f78470b02407@f24g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, > Why do only newly-created JPGs and PNGs in a Leopard Finder window > display the resolution but not images that were created in Tiger, > Panther, Jaguar or Puma? Of course, this rule isn't always true -- > sometimes by clicking/unclicking "Show Item Info" in "Show View > Options" will fix this on some images but not all. The image > resolution is hardly OS-dependent so why is Leopard so lame? I can't seem to reproduce the symptoms you're describing. Can you give *exact* steps to reproduce the problem?  SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. I do not read posts from Google Groups. Use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR > In article > <c4a6810c-6bd1-4965-a1cd-f78470b02...@f24g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Can you give *exact* steps to reproduce the problem? I open a Finder window with any number of images that were created before I upgraded to Leopard. Most such folders (for me) were already set to display the resolution (e.g. 1024x768 in blue) below the filename in icon view. However, even though "Show Item Info" in "Show View Options" is checked, Leopard does not display the resolution. When I download a new image (either from my camera or via the net), the image resolution does display. Because of what you report and because the same symptoms do not appear on my office Mac (I wrote the original post from my home Mac), I'm guessing that this is possibly a ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist problem. But which plist to delete? com.apple.finder.plist ??? In article <57488c24-b0f5-406c-80ba-9e1a984a040e@a9g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, > > In article > > <c4a6810c-6bd1-4965-a1cd-f78470b02...@f24g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > com.apple.finder.plist ??? First things first: 1. Does the problem last through a logout? 2. Does the problem last through a restart? 3. Have you run Disk Utility's "Verify Disk" function to verify the hard drive on which the pictures reside is not in need of repair? 4. Does the problem happen in another Mac OS X user account? SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. I do not read posts from Google Groups. Use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR > In article > <57488c24-b0f5-406c-80ba-9e1a984a0...@a9g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > 1. Does the problem last through a logout? Yes. > 2. Does the problem last through a restart? Yes. > 3. Have you run Disk Utility's "Verify Disk" function to verify the hard > drive on which the pictures reside is not in need of repair? I haven't tried this but I'll do so when I get home tonight. > 4. Does the problem happen in another Mac OS X user account? I'm not sure -- I'll try this tonight too. Thanks a bunch, JR. On May 19, 12:38 pm, paintedj...@gmail.com wrote: > > In article > > <57488c24-b0f5-406c-80ba-9e1a984a0...@a9g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > > I haven't tried this but I'll do so when I get home tonight. Tried it but it didn't change anything. > > 4. Does the problem happen in another Mac OS X user account? > > I'm not sure -- I'll try this tonight too. Thanks a bunch, JR. Checked this and it appeared that the other user had no such problems but mostly, that account only had recent images. So I dragged com.apple.finder.plist to the Desktop and then, while playing with the filename of a problem image, I discovered that I could slightly modify the filename and then click just below the filename (where the resolution should have been) and presto! Suddenly, the resolution appears! Unfortunately, that's a painful way to fix a problem. I'm sure I have at least 10,000 images. :( My guess. Leopard has to open the file to find out what are the dimensions, then records them for its own use. Therefore, if you have an image file that has never been opened (under Leopard), it cannot show the resolution. >Why do only newly-created JPGs and PNGs in a Leopard Finder window >display the resolution but not images that were created in Tiger, >Panther, Jaguar or Puma? Of course, this rule isn't always true -- >sometimes by clicking/unclicking "Show Item Info" in "Show View >Options" will fix this on some images but not all. The image >resolution is hardly OS-dependent so why is Leopard so lame? Check your Spotlight settings in the System Preferences. You must have enabled indexing for images. And you shouldn't have excluded in Privacy the folder where you expect to see the dimensions. It sounds odd but I think it's related to Spotlight indexing. If your settings are alright then you might think about running some command tools for reindexing. Best of luck! -- lloegar |
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