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EPS preview in finder not working in monterey

So again a bad bug in monterey. Before monterey osx could preview vector files like eps as thumbnail and by pressing the spacebar to open quicklook or in finder opening the gallery mode. Since updating to monterey this feature didn't work on my machines. Neither on my 2017 iMac nor on my 2013 mac Pro and not on my 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max 16. All files have only a EPS-Symbol instead of showing a preview.

Apple, bring us back the preview option please as soon as possible.

I tried every solution from new user, deleting caches, quit finder, reset quicklook by terminal, installing 3rd party quicklook plugins. Nothing helped. Like 6 years ago I need to open a 3rd party program to look inside my eps folder with hundrets of symbols which is not convient anymore.

Posted on Dec 9, 2021 4:47 AM

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Omark2k

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Posted on Jan 12, 2022 3:50 PM

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I found this working solution on Apple forum.

I tested it and it works great. Please pay attention to copy modfied qlgenerator in Library/QuickLook, NOT in System/Library/QuickLook

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

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benwiggy

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Aug 19, 2022 11:15 AM in response to FLYINGFOX23

You can copy the EPS.qlgenerator file from Catalina, if you still have it. You can even extract it from an installer app using something like Pacifist.

It's in /System/Library/QuickLook. Copy it to your /Library/QuickLook (or user Library similar folder).