Strip icon previews for smaller files

09 March 2009 · 0 comments

Get Info lets you strip icon previews and remove excess ‘weight’ from images destined for the web.

 

Icons. I’d spent several minutes pointing and clicking to create 38 screenshots for my MacTips website before I realised I’d used bad Snapz Pro settings. It was set to create icon previews for the files.

38 files destined for the web were each a weighty 60Kb instead of a sleek 10Kb. And of course every byte on a web page takes up disc space and slows download time for the page.

It’s handy when images on a computer have a preview. It makes it much easier to see what the file is while browsing around a hard drive.

But for images on the web all it does is add junk.

Rather than starting again with my 38 files I used the technique in this macosxhints.com hint — Strip icon previews for better Cover Flow view:

[robg adds: Queue user fds points out that you can remove the icon from a number of files at once. Just select them all in the Finder then press Control-Command-I. Select the icon and delete, and you'll remove them all.]

That did the trick nicely.

What’s your experience with image previews and the web?

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Tagged as: Finder, images, screenshots, web

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