Preview won't close windows

click the apple at top of screen, select force quit, in that window, select preview, and clic yes you are sure force quit.

I was having the same problem, with a large file that was causing my Preview to open it everytime and slow it down, and it wouldn't close the **** file/window. The fact is that it was opening the file even if it was deleted. But it was opening a temporary file somewhere, somehow.

I don't know if that's available in previous version os macOS, but I'm using Lion. Here's what I did:

1. Right-click on the icon by the side of the title of the window/document you wish to close

2. You can see now the path of that file - click on the folder right beneath the file name

3. That will take you the where the file is - delete the file.

4. Go back to preview and close the window.

To me this worked instantly. It wasn't closing before and now it did because the file really didn't exist anymore.

Cheers

Guz

I also forgot to ask: had you clicked on the red button at top left of each window?

try to locate them in finder (maybe still in the download file?) and drag to trash, then close window.

Have you restarted the computer? Sometimes that will help computer accept commands.

Also reset safari. Try that first...

I am having the same problem... And yes I have tried all suggestions above including shutting down computer with "reopen windows" unchecked... Plus a hard power button shut down still no luck... Any suggestions?

thanks

Another option is to delete the autosave file from Preview. I had another problem like this and this is mostly because of a "lost/untitled" autosave file preventing Preview to properly deal with it.

What I did was:

1. go to ~/library/containers/com.Apple.Preview/data/library/autosave information

2. delete the **** "untitled" or any other file there.

3. restart preview. It should now be without any windows open and any other window you open should now close normally.

Guz