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Disabling Icon Preview

  • July 4, 2017
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Hi,

Does anyone have a script to disable icon previews in Mac OS Sierra?
I found an old script I used on previous OS X but this doesn't work fully, it disables it in finder/desktop but if I browse to a network share icon previews are turned back on again

Cheers
Matt

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    • kerouak
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    • July 5, 2017

    This one?

    Run at user login:

    Define variables for plistbuddy path, current user, and destination file path

    loggedInUser=/bin/ls -l /dev/console | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $3 }'
    plistbuddy=/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy
    plistfile=/Users/$loggedInUser/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

    Delete the existing cover-flow preview setting

    $plistbuddy -c 'Delete StandardViewSettings:ExtendedListViewSettings:showIconPreview' $plistfile;

    Delete the existing icon preview setting

    $plistbuddy -c 'Delete StandardViewSettings:IconViewSettings:showIconPreview' $plistfile;

    Delete the existing list icon preview setting

    $plistbuddy -c 'Delete StandardViewSettings:ListViewSettings:showIconPreview' $plistfile;

    Delete the existing column icon preview setting

    $plistbuddy -c 'Delete StandardViewOptions:ColumnViewOptions:ShowIconThumbnails' $plistfile;

    Delete the existing column preview column setting

    $plistbuddy -c 'Delete StandardViewOptions:ColumnViewOptions:ColumnShowIcons' $plistfile;

    Reset the cover-flow preview setting to off

    $plistbuddy -c 'Add StandardViewSettings:ExtendedListViewSettings:showIconPreview bool false' $plistfile;

    Reset the icon preview setting to off

    $plistbuddy -c 'Add StandardViewSettings:IconViewSettings:showIconPreview bool false' $plistfile;

    Reset the list icon preview setting to off

    $plistbuddy -c 'Add StandardViewSettings:ListViewSettings:showIconPreview bool false' $plistfile;

    Reset the column icon preview setting to off

    $plistbuddy -c 'Add StandardViewOptions:ColumnViewOptions:ShowIconThumbnails bool false' $plistfile;

    Reset the column preview column setting to off

    $plistbuddy -c 'Add StandardViewOptions:ColumnViewOptions:ColumnShowIcons bool false' $plistfile;

    Repair ownership on plist file

    chown -R "$loggedInUser:staff" $plistfile

    Note that existing .DS_Store files on an SMB share may override these defaults.

    A cleanup of existing .DS_Store files in conjunction with the following lines may

    yield better results. Comment the following three lines if undesired.

    dsstore=/Users/$loggedInUser/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktopservices.plist
    defaults write $dsstore DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
    chown -R "$loggedInUser:staff" /Users/$loggedInUser/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktopservices.plist

    Delete prefs/plist cache

    killall cfprefsd

    Restart the Finder

    killall Finder

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    • kerouak
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    • July 5, 2017

    Also "Note that existing .DS_Store files on an SMB share may override these defaults"

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