Finder displays icons of pictures only partly

[thomasbusse]

Hi,

I have an iMac G5 with Mac OS X 10.4.4 running.
In Finder I have changed the settings such that for images it displays the image as icon.
Now when I have the Finder window open and do a scan (Canon Lide 60), the
scanner puts the image into this folder.
Unfortunately the icon (that should be a miniaturized image) is displayed only partly, ie. depending on timing only 10 - 25% of the top of the picture is shown.

It looks to me that the Finder is updating it's contents a little bit to early, ie.
the scanner has transmitted only part of the image, but Finder already started
to create the icon.

Note: If the Finder doesn't have a window open of the folder where the scanner puts in the image and you open this folder afterwards, everything works fine.

Does anyone have an idea how I can get around it?

Unfortunately the FInder doesn't have a refresh option which would update the icons. Only possibility I see until now is to open the image and save it again, but that's very annoying (because I can't even see which image I'm opening beforehand).

Regards,
Thomas

 

[ra3ndy]

I think you hit the workaround right there. Keep the folder closed while you scan. You know it's putting the image there, so why do you need need to see it while it's being scanned?

 

[thomasbusse]

The folder is open because the scanner SW opens it automatically after scanning the first picture.
So, it's already open when I scan the second one.

But, why is the Finder already generating an icon when the scanner BEGINS to save the image. Shouldn't it generate the image after the scanner finished writing (has closed the file)?