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Hello, yesterday I installed Monterey on my Air M1, but quicklook isn't working after the update.
I have to kill the process several times a day in Activity Monitor.
Is there any way to fix this?
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
Relaunching the Finder solved this for me as well. Hold down the option key and the control key, then click on the Finder icon in the dock, and then choose Relaunch. (I'm on an M1 Pro 14" MacBook Pro running Monterey 12.0.1.
Relaunching the Finder solved this for me as well. Hold down the option key and the control key, then click on the Finder icon in the dock, and then choose Relaunch. (I'm on an M1 Pro 14" MacBook Pro running Monterey 12.0.1.
I had this same problem - I'm on an M1 iMac
Selected a file, pressed Space Bar to launch Quick look and all I got was a thumbnail.
So I just force quit 'Finder' and ...Bingo! Full sized preview in Quick Look
Hope that helps some of you
Ok, look what I did (So far solved). I was reading looking for some solution and I found this:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
There is a part that says: “It also does a basic check of your startup disk, similar to using First Aid in Disk Utility. And it deletes some system caches, including font caches and the kernel cache, which are automatically created again as needed. "
So I gave it a try and after restart the problem was solved.
However I reinstalled the cleanmymac just to test if it was the problem, but the problem with the quicklook did not reappear.
I'm NOT a fan of cleanmymac, understanding what you say I'm not going to use it again, but since I have an MBA, my main disk is low on space, so I ask you if there is a disk monitor or something similar, or do you recommend don't install anything additional and manually view it in “About this Mac”?
By the way, excuse my English, I do the best I can.
Hi all frustrated quicklook users :-). Here is a link to a post which worked for me on my iMac late 2017 and my MacBookPro M1 Max. Hope this will also work for you too:
I have not Quicklook problems for now and all files are working fine.
Hi, I had this problem too but I solved it by doing the following:
Then you should be able to use quicklook feature like before!
RichardBolivar wrote:
When I press the space bar, the videos or images don't play, instead a thumbnail is displayed.
Well of course images don't play. But it might be the format of those particular .mp4 files. Do they open in QuickTime?
I have the exact same problem on my M1 MBA. The same media i would previously view in this way on Big Sur, no longer works. I only get Thumbnails. this is particularly annoying as if I want to listen to an audio file, it imports it to itunes.
Exact same issue here on M1 MacBook Pro (13"). Only thumbnails when I try to use quicklook with any document (PDF, video, images, Word, Pages, etc. — only thumbnails no matter the file type).
May be an M1 issue. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
FWIW, As I posted above, I have four installs of Monterey, three on Intel Macs and one M1 Mac. None have the problem so it appears it is a local problem. In your specific case, CleanMyMac X may have caused damage that would require a reinstall of Monterey or a clean install.
I know, and others don't.
This is not unusual. It is a matter figuring out what is different. CMM is one such thing, others may have antivirus, etc.
Many of the problems people are having with Monterey come down to either stuff like this, or older software that is not fully compatible. It is so easy to upgrade that some people have been doing it for years, never doing a clean install. That can lead to old stuff that suddenly breaks.
I have this same issue as well, and the restarting of Finder fixes it, however, this is just a workaround. I'd suggest that Apple take a look at this as it's clearly an issue for a number of people and there will probably be a load more not looking at this discussion thread.
FedericoPeruzzo wrote:
• Hi, I had this problem too but I solved it by doing the following:
Open the Activity monitor
• Search for "quick"
• The Finder icon and name should pop up as a drop-down menu
• Open it
• Force quit the element "QuickLookUIService (Finder)" inside
Then you should be able to use quicklook feature like before!
Yes, I did, but it is a temporary solution, after a while quicklook stops working.
dialabrain wrote:
I see. Try creating a new user account, log into it and see if you still have a problem.
Ok, so far this is the only thing that has worked for me, thanks. The other methods also worked, but temporarily.
I was having this problem with .pages files in particular. I noticed that it was only happening with older .pages files. If you open these .pages files and press the spacebar you will get dialogue box asking you if you want to upgrade the file. If you allow the file to upgrade it will then work with quicklook.
Thanks bro, it worked for my MacBook Air M1. Earlier I used to restart my Mac, now this method is helping me alot
Relaunching the Finder solved this for me as well. Hold down the option key and the control key, then click on the Finder icon in the dock, and then choose Relaunch running Monterey 12.0.1
Quicklook isn't working after Monterey update
