Preview crashes every time after upgrading to Lion

Thanks, Silvertoe. Easy solution to an annoying problem. I appreciate the help!

Awesome!

There has been several work arounds that has corrected the crash problem. I am putting together a good guide for different situations. That hopefully will work for everyone.

timmersw,

Its funny how this solution works for some and not for others. I am glad it worked for you.

geraldfrombalgowlah wrote:

drwx------ 4 gt staff 136 3 Aug 09:56 Containers

drwx------

— for ~/Library/Containers … that's good.

Re: an earlier post, I never found it necessary to change permissions for ~/Library

hi all,

Preview was crashing with error every time i launched it after installing Lion.

after trying most if not all suggestions on this thread i stubbled across "Verify Disk Permissions" and "Repair Disk Permissions" in Disk Utility.

Ran a verification first and had many exceptions show up, then ran "Repair Disk Permissions"

immediately Preview runs without fault. and textedit, which was failing too.

if this hasn't been suggested yet then i hope it works for some still fighting this... if it has, then i apologise for the reposting.

good luck.

Big Thanks to Anders Jangö! I used all the solutions posted here, but yours was the one that did the trick for me! HUGE HUGE thanks!

Thank You!

Thank You!

Thank You!

This is the only fix that worked for me!! Thank You!

I had the same problem with Preview crashing - I was able to fix it by simply clicking on Preview once, going into the Finder, then into File and Get Info. I clicked on "Open 32-bit mode" - it works like a charm now!

Thanks Azmac11! For Lion clients with MHD hosted on 10.6 Server, This worked for me where the other suggestions did not.

How is this still a problem after all these months? I have a three week old Macbook Air. It crashed, then refused to reboot last weekend. As I was traveling, I was stuck. Fortunately the guys in the Apple Store in Birmingham were great and although I wasted time (and missed a football match that I was supposed to be taking photos at) they rebuilt the OS and got it working. But the preview crashing remains. I've done the updates but it persists. If I delete an image, then go back to view a previous photo, it crashes every time eg,

view image 1,

delete image 2,

view image 3,

then try to return to image 1

preview attempts to open image 2 and crashes.

Today I did some quick cropping of a few images and Preview crashed while attempting to save the images. I was using an external hard drive which I couldn't eject and eventually I had to crash the machine, then re-boot.

I appreciate that the answer may well be in this thread and I'll have a try at resolving the issue this weekend but I'm really unhappy that I need to do this on a Mac, especially as this is a long time problem and I spent the last few years telling people how much better Macs are than PC's "because they just work". I've already had that thrown back at me by people who know that the reason I wasn't taking photos at a football match on Tuesday is because my Mac just 'doesn't work'. Oh, and I missed the deadline for submitting images from last Saturday's game too.

Hopefully I'll spend a morning following the instructions above and resolve this, so thank you in advance for your help, but I needed to let off a bit of steam. Come on Apple, sort these problems out before I begin to rank Lion slightly lower than Vista!

PS If anyone has a contact at Apple that I could send my rant to directly, please let me know it!

I have the same problem. But only on one of four users. Anyone know of a fix?

Thanks.