Preview quitting with EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Had this Problem with a Customer, that suddenly Prview just crashed at every startup, found also another few People with this problem and wanted to share the solution that worked for me.

The customer tried to open a PDF File out of Apple Mail which had dots, umlauts, .... in the filename.

Preview tried to open and for a fraction of a second you could see the Name of the fiel. Therfor i searched for the file in the finder and removed it from it's location. When trying to open Preview again it worked.

Posted on Apr 17, 2024 12:54 AM

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BDAqua

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Apr 17, 2024 7:28 AM in response to LS_PNET

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