Want to highlight a helpful answer? Upvote!
Did someone help you, or did an answer or User Tip resolve your issue? Upvote by selecting the upvote arrow. Your feedback helps others! Learn more about when to upvote >
Did someone help you, or did an answer or User Tip resolve your issue? Upvote by selecting the upvote arrow. Your feedback helps others! Learn more about when to upvote >
Hi,
Just upgraded from Big Sur to Monterey on my iMac Pro and discovered that all my eps-files doesn't show any icon preview anymore, just a generic eps icon. I have tried to open one of them in the latest Adobe Illustrator 2022 and saved it again - but still no icon preview. Restart doesn't help either!
Is this a bug or am I the only one with this issue?
As an illustrator, this is really frustrating.
/Johnny
iMac Pro
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.
only work around so far is to rename all .eps extensions with .ai
Thanks! That worked! It was a little time consuming because I couldn't do them all at once. But IT WORKED!
Same exactly issue here. No icon preview on EPS files since the upgrade to OS Monterey. It's very annoying.
same problem here
I was having the same issue with missing preview icons, I did what flamingo life suggested; that is, I logged out, restarted, and when I signed back in all my icons were there! Thanks flamingo!
Try the other, easier solution ... log out of your account, restart, then log back in. Worked for me and a couple of other folks.
OK, now work...thanks
Well, the solution editing the Quicklook plist file and booting into Safe Mode didn't work very long for me. New EPS files have the same issue like before - I thought I have solved it....bummer!
Same issue here, that is so annoying!
I'm using the 2021 Macbook Pro, so downgrading MacOS is not an option...
Hopefully, this will be fixed soon.
Go to page 3 of this thread, and see the instructions from Kurthis about how to edit Illustrator.qlgenerator. That got the EPS icon previews working for me.
Thanks for your reply.
I've tried that workaround, but unfortunately, the Illustrator.qlgenerator file is missing in my Library/QuickLook folder.
Using macOS Monterey 12.1
So frustrating...
Great tip! Finally worked for me to! Now all my eps files are "quicklookable" Hand down for this!!!!
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!
It works, but it's a temporary solution. Every time Adobe updates their apps, it stops working and you need to do it all over again.
Apple really needs to fix this annoying issue!
I'll give it a try. Here's the link to the EPS Viewer.
https://etresoft.org/download/EPSView.zip
/Johnny
No icon preview for eps-files in Monterey
