After installing MacOS Monterey Quick lock in finder just showing a small image. I often use space bar to have quick look at image but with macOS Monterey I only get a small image, the same size that I already have in finder. This is useless. I tried different modifiers and with Option I get an image that is a little bigger but not as big as before.
How do I get the old Quick Look function back?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15
Relaunching Finder fixed this issue for me without rebooting.
Press Option (⌥) while two-finger clicking (or right click, or control-option-click) on Finder in the Dock; select "Relaunch" and try Quick Look again.
FWIW, some users have the same issue. Fortunately I don't on 4 different Macs. I haven't seen what may be the cause.
You could send Apple a bug report from the feedback page: Feedback - macOS - Apple
I have the same problem, but I don't see Quick Look in that menu. How can I fix this annoying issue?
I found that using OPTION > SPACEBAR in MacOS 12.0.1 allows a group of selected photos to open in Quick Look. Not an optimum solution, but works okay until Apple comes to their senses.
Option-Spacebar works for me on MacBook Pro 14”
As I said several weeks ago…Select > Command > Option works for me!
I have problem on all files, a Quick Look on a movie shows just an small image. The same happens with a doc, just an small image, you can't see what's on the file, it's to small. I don't think Quick Look was ment to work like this?
vmpaul wrote:
I wonder if it's related to the memory leaks we're hearing regarding macOS Monterey?
No. Some of the memory leaks are known to be caused by setting the cursor to a color other than the default black.
Hmm … can not find quick lock at the location you told. Restart doesn't help. it is just not there. Only Core Sync Helper is available - nothing else.
So Quick Look is out of order for EPS, PDF etc. as well. Even the preview of EPS, PDF etc. in a standard folder doesn't work … feels like a windows computer now painful ^^ hopefully apple will fix this (for me huge) problem with 12.2 very very fast. i really need the preview of EPS files :/
in one folder i have more than 300 EPS files. all now with the same icon - no previews. yay -.-
I have tried all these solutions but nothing works. More oddly, Quick Look does not appear in the Extensions pane of System Preferences. Has Monterey not installed properly? Help, I use Quick Look a lot and not having it is very annoying.
Select > Command > Option | not working for me
or relaunching Finder | did not fix it for me
or Preferences -> Extension | there is no extension called Quick Look or something else
and it is not only Quick Look while pressing space bar. its all the icons of some files in folder on desktop or on server. main files without any preview are mp4 and EPS. Sometimes PDF, PSD, and AI as well.
Agree with TheTrappistMonk … please fix it very soon. working is more complicated now. and after some weeks it's really annoying …
all the recommendations in this thread or these on other websites are not working.
A quick update as I go along noticing how Quick Look is working or otherwise:
If I open a file in my Dropbox folder and then close it again, Quick Look seems to work the next time I try it.
But that's no good for files that haven't been opened yet.
Apple: how is it going with your attempts to fix this one?
Good work. That should have been selected by default.
This worked for me too. Seems like a bug in the OS. Thanks!
I wonder if it's related to the memory leaks we're hearing regarding macOS Monterey?
fantastic. this worked right away, and is such an easy solution. thanks.
Quick Look in finder only shows a small image
