Q: My Preview keeps crashing. It no longer opens any of my PDFs and automatically crashes when i try to open a PDF. Where can i download Preview from so i can uninstall and re-install ?
Preview keeps crashing
imac, Mac OS X (10.6.1), mac osx tiger
Posted on May 1, 2016 11:08 AM
Do a backup.
Quit Preview.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Remove the following. You may not find them all. Restart and test.
Containers/com.apple.Preview
Containers/com.apple.quicklook.ui.helper
Preferences/com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList.plist
Preferences/com.apple.Preview.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList.plist
Saved Application State/com.apple.Preview.savedState
Credit Linc Davis for this solution.
Posted on May 3, 2016 8:40 AM