No icon preview for eps-files in Monterey

Since this is nothing which sometimes works or not, you obviously did something wrong. If done right, it works. Simple as that.

Here's a screenshot how the plist should look:

Line 17 is the one to add.

Same here. You are not alone. Contacted support and they opened a bug report on it. Tried to find an eps plugin for quicklook, but the one that I found, the link no longer works. -Bill

You're not talking to Apple here. File a report with them.

I called support and they claimed to have opened a bug report on this. What more can be done??

Try the other, easier solution ... log out of your account, restart, then log back in. Worked for me and a couple of other folks.

It's there! You just need to copy /System/Library/QuickLook and in Finder go to select "Go to folder" and paste it. Good Luck!

With the exception of .eps files, all my icons are back!!

I’m not sure exactly when it happened but I had to restart my Mac and log out for another process and the next day I was looking for images again and realised I could see them - what a RELIEF!

I know this doesn’t help those who use .eps files but they slow finder down so much that I put them in a different folder to other image files and only open it when I know I need one.

This exercise has made me aware of how crap finder is and that it’s probably worth considering a finder alternative. I’ll happily share when I find a good one.

Good luck to anyone still struggling with this issue.

Hi, I see all icons in preview except the .eps files. Hopefully Apple will solve this problem as soon as possible. And since they get their hands on it, they could do it even faster: the old one took a minute to image to do the preview O_O

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1. Copy the "Illustrator.qlgenerator" from "/System/Library/QuickLook" to your desktop or any other folder you have read/write access to.
2. Open "Illustrator.qlgenerator" by right clicking it and select "Show package contents".
3. Open "Info.plist" in the "Contents" folder with a text editor.
4. Find the line "<string>com.adobe.illustrator.ai-image</string>"
5. Insert "<string>com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript</string>" below it with the same indentation and save the "Info.plist" file.
6. Copy "Illustrator.qlgenerator" to "/Library/QuickLook"

If you did everything right, you should now have .EPS previews back again. That's a workaround until apple fixes it in the System/Library, hopefully soon.

Hi, thanks for the solution, but there is a problem: the folder is locked and does not make me copy the modified file. Even if I try to add a user with full permissions, it doesn't let me create it: is there a way to unblock it?

Thanks

Yep did exactly that....

Copy from system-library-quicklook, pasted to desktop, edited the file, moved into library-quicklook.

Didn't do anything

(obviously didn't try moving into system-library-quicklook cause its a locked folder)

I recently installed Monterey & have the same issue. For instance when I do a screen print it does not show up on my desktop. I need to search for .png files using spotlight to find & access the file thus adding time to my overall work flow.

Hi there, I am also trying to implement this workaround.

Unfortunately I'm already out of luck right at the beginning. My "/System/Library/QuickLook" folder in Monterrey is completely empty, no hidden files either. I think this is what Johnny R. described on Jan. 8.

Am I doing something completely wrong here or missing something from the description?

Thanks for any advice!

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!

I already have the latest version of Bridge installed since I have an active adobe subscription.

However, I can't generate previews for EPS files using Bridge as well...

I can only see the neverending "Generating Thumbnails" dialog text at the bottom left of the window.

Unfortunately, Bridge doesn't fix this EPS preview issue on macOS Monterey either...

No, I didn't. I just wanted to help people with their problem. I don't think I blame anyone, anywhere. Apple quietly removed the support in its generator, which they have all the rights to do so, and so I helped myself.

And, in that particular case, adding a string back in a .plist isn't that wild of a hack, don't you think? I don't want people to get the impression, that they're doing something which does any harm in some way or that it's not ok to tinker with their system.

Be curious, have backups(!), try something :)