Quick Look Satellite - Issues deleting - OSX Bug?

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Quick Look Satellite - Issues deleting - OSX Bug?

Hello All

I am having issues with Quick Look Satellite - This link summarises my issue 100%

https://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2016/20160525_2158-OSX_QuickLook-open-files.html

I can only delete the files from my server when I rid my running processes of Quick Look Satellite. If it is running it holds open the files due to indexing and refuses to delete what I want. I can create this into a bash file that deletes the running process as specified int he link but should I really have to do this?

Can I just disable it completely/entirely?

Is this an ongoing issue with OSX in general or is there a patch somewhere I can download that solves?

This is still an issue on 10.14.5 according to the environment.

Anyone else had this issue? How did you solve in a permanent manner?

Thanks

Posted on Jun 19, 2019 6:02 AM

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etresoft

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Jun 19, 2019 7:09 AM in response to firespasm

This is a longstanding issue. Are you really generating QuickLook previews with the spacebar? Or are these being automatically generated from icon previews?

If you are generating the previews, you could just stop doing that. If necessary, you may be able to turn off the Apple QuickLook task. That would disable QuickLook for the entire machine.

Otherwise, you can try changing the Finder View options to disable icon previews and see if that helps.

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firespasm Author

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Jun 20, 2019 7:09 AM in response to etresoft

Hey etresoft

Yeah I believe these are being automatically generated from previews of whatever the individual sifts through when connecting to the server. I think disabling it would not be ideal in this case as they manage a lot of media specific data that they would need indexing for ease of use including icon generation for their work flow and visual referencing for data managers etc.

Originally I though it might be protocol specific then I saw the active sessions open via SMB server side via the users domain name and tracked the open directories and files referenced to the same individuals IP, then locally via activity monitor in memory under the processes referencing those same directories found, then googled the process and bang first hit. Seems like it has been around a while seeing as it referenced 2016 in that link.

So at base late El Capitan - early Sierra onwards till now.

Surprised Apple haven't addressed this or more people haven't complained.

Our work around currently is to delete them from a windows server that can mount that same storage. Not sure if that user would need to rid their current QLS processes on the storage before that would be allowed either.

Either that or I could introduce them to the shell and recursively force the deletion. I think the windows server deletion is probably best in this case.

If anyone reading this finds a fix in the future, revive me.

Thanks for the options though. +1 cookies

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