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DavidPhillipOster / ThumbHost3mf

A macOS app that hosts a thumbnail provider that makes the Finder displays the thumbnails built in to some .gcode and .3mf files.
Apache License 2.0
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The Open menu is greyed out and unselectable #12

Closed owldown closed 1 month ago

owldown commented 1 month ago

Just installed and gave permission to the Quicklook extension. When I try to open a folder with the app, the Open menu item is greyed out.

DavidPhillipOster commented 1 month ago

Thanks - I was dropping .3mf and .gcode files on the app icon in the dock, or dragging them to the window. You've found a real bug. It should just be in the app, though, and not in how the Finder interacts with the plugin.

owldown commented 1 month ago

I was trying to follow the directions:

Use ThumbHost3MF's File > Open menu item and point at a directory containing .gcode or .3mf files: that will kick the Finder into noticing the embedded thumbnail presenter.

Dragging files and folders does work for me, so this is great! Now I just need to find a way to generate thumbnails for the tons of files I have that don't have embedded thumbnails.

DavidPhillipOster commented 1 month ago

Once the Finder (Actually the Quicklook system) picks up the plugin, the Finder's icon view should get the correct icons for files that have thumbnails without any additional action on your part.

I used a Finder search to see my .3mf files, so it was easy to find the ones that had no thumbnails.

For .3mf files that don't have thumbnails, at least in PrusaSlicer, I just opened an old .3mf, verified in the Printer Settings panel that opening the file had not overridden the default options for writing thumbnails, and Save As back over the older original. After the first few, it was just open the file, and save as immediately.