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docmartinhk Author

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Quick Look not working for Office documents in Catalina

Just having issue with Quick Look not working - just get spinning wheel - when trying to use quick look for Word documents - doc, docs files.

I've seen this may be to do with security; maybe need to tell the OS it's ok to use the quicklook package for Office files. But I'm not sure; have tried one workaround involving copying the package to a QuickLook folder in my user Library; no joy - maybe as couldn't rename the original package folder, don't have necessary permission.

Posted on Jul 2, 2020 2:21 AM

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docmartinhk Author

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Posted on Jul 14, 2020 9:05 PM

Turned out this was issue with private/tmp - error w symbolic link.

Fixed this, and Quick Look started working as expected.

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