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amyyy:

imkevin:

Sometimes OS X loses the ability to preview images. Does this happen to anyone else? You can just force quit the Finder and it’s fixed but it’s still annoying.

This happens to me quite often. I’ve become spoiled with the convenience of hitting the space bar for a large preview so quickly, that I already get instantly frustrated when this happens. Especially because I work with photos every day, and usually have 4 or 5 different Finder windows open… meaning I have to retrace my steps to get every folder open that I had in each window.

I’d be interested to see what the result of a Cmd-J is on that window when this happens.  Is the “show icon preview” box checked?

EDIT: Upon further research, it looks like you may need to re-index your drive with Spotlight.  Add your hard drive to Spotlight’s privacy pane for a few seconds and then remove it.  That should initiate an indexing.  See if that helps.