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After updating to catalina, i noticed that all of my PDF icons changed to Affinity Photo. when I went back in to change the default to Preview, it took care of that issue, but now nothing is opening at all. Preview opens, but the PDF does not. i now cannot open PDFs at all. Is anyone else having this issue or know of a workaround?
OK. Same issue here I think... Recently I noticed all PDF file icons were defaulting to to Affinity Photo. I used "Get info" on one PDF file and used the "Open with" to reassign to Preview by default, and then hit "Change all". PDF file icons started showing up as Preview again, but trying to open any PDF resulted in Preview getting focus, then a few seconds of nothing, followed by Finder animating the file icon as if it was opening, then nothing... not even an error. Restarted. Nothing. Did some disk first aid, nothing. Hitting space for a quick preview of a PDF worked fine, reassigning PDF's to another app worked fine, reassigning back to Preview and nothing. Opening other image formats in Preview worked fine (jpg, png), opening PDF's in other apps worked fine. I did some of the suggestions listed here, deleting Preview preferences and also the Preview Container directory, logged out and back in again and still no improvement. I created a new test user and logged in – PDFs opened fine in Preview there! Hmmm... It felt like a securities/permission type bug so logged back into my own account (PDF's still failed to open in Preview) and followed https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203538 Initially after following the steps and logging out and back in, still no luck. I gave up at this point, and tried to get on with some work. About an hour later I had to restart as a couple of apps were now unexpectedly starting giving the pinwheel of death opening files. After the restart, PDF's were opening again in Preview! I'm going to assume the guidance to "Reset permissions" procedure in Finder followed by a:
diskutil resetUserPermissions / `id -u`
...may have done the trick, and just required a full restart and not just a logout and login again, however at some point in desperation I did also try a:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
...so can't be 100% as to what the fix may have been. Good luck!
thank you! i'm glad someone else is experiencing the same issue, but i also hope it gets addressed.
Well I have a similar problem, I used to create pdfs with preview from the printing menu. Since Catalina it doesnt work
i had high hopes for this suggestion, but it didn't work either. thanks though.
Does Preview work:
a) when using another account?
b) in your account, if booted in Safe Mode?
no and no
Well, then I cannot think of any other solution short of a reinstall of Catalina.
In what location is the document stored?
You must have a very old version of Adobe Reader. I don’t think you need it, but you want to use you need to get it from Adobe.
I could be mistaken but I thought this thread was about Preview?
I couldn't survive without coffee.
I can search pdf files just fine.
Some files contain images of text rather than text - for example, those resulting from a scan.
In those cases search is not available. Maybe that is what happening?
It is quite likely that this antivirus of yours is part of the problem.
Antivirus on the mac are useless and known to cause many issues.
yes the same issue here
But the problem is there is no to edit the document
Version 2019.021.20047 is available. 😎
PDFs won't open since Catalina
