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kosmoran Author

Level 1

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Quick Look not working properly since OS X Mavericks update

When I select a file and press the space button to give it a quick look, it will either show the next file in the list or nothing at all. Sometimes it does show the right file, but doesn't stick to the right order if I press the arrow buttons. It was working perfectly fine before I updated to Mavericks.

Is anyone else experiencing anything similar? How can I solve this? I really like the quick look functionality and use it a lot, please help!

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 25, 2013 12:20 AM

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clintonfrombirmingham

Level 7

30,106 points

Posted on Oct 25, 2013 12:47 AM

Works just fine for me... are you certain that you don't have any third-party kernel extensions or 'haxies' that might cause these Quick Look problems?

Clinton

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Nov 3, 2013 11:21 AM in response to denis9009

So this happened after you updated to Mavericks? One thing I tried is to boot in safe mode the preview works just fine then. So it has something to do with an incompatible file that could be an extension, preference file or something else. I trashed my Quick Look plist but that didn't fix the problem.

masiq

Level 1

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Nov 6, 2013 1:12 AM in response to kosmoran

i have a problem to view my CSS file, is there any solution for it ?

srf48

Level 1

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Nov 6, 2013 8:53 PM in response to kosmoran

Same here. Quick Look is sluggish - definite lag time. It's getting really annoying.

Nov 28, 2013 3:45 AM in response to jonescreative

Same here. Quick Look is slow, often not able to preview a jpeg and easily desynchronized, showing the preview of another file than the one selected wich is VERY ANNOYING 😠

tissa7

Level 1

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Dec 14, 2013 1:15 PM in response to kosmoran

Exposure 4 in Lightroom isn't working after upgrading to Mavericks; a link to share a folder from dropbox disappeared after upgrading to mavericks, videos that used to play on my Mac Book pro are not all playing any more....

Wow...I wish i never upgraded

kosmoran Author

Level 1

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Dec 17, 2013 1:26 PM in response to kosmoran

Apple released a new update to Mavericks today. I thought they might have included a fix to this ridiculous quicklook problem. No, they haven't. It seemed to be working fine lately, now it's back to working horrible again.

I wonder how something so simple can go unseen for so long. APPLE, FIX THAT ALREADY.

spraguga

Level 1

63 points

Dec 19, 2013 11:10 AM in response to kosmoran

Have you tried deleting this folder which worked for me:

/Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.quicklook.ui.helper

Dec 20, 2013 3:27 PM in response to spraguga

IT WORKS!!!

Thank you so much spraguga.

And why Apple can't let us know that?

Dec 22, 2013 7:49 AM in response to denis9009

That fix did nothing for me, still slow as molasses. I've got a 2103 MBP retina, and i get a beachball with every image I try to look at using QL.

maxbmx

Level 1

8 points

Dec 22, 2013 7:52 AM in response to Andrew Janjigian

same situation here...

Dec 22, 2013 8:30 AM in response to spraguga

This didn't work for me. I even tried deleting all of the containers to see if there was some incompatible file but that didn't work. Booting in SAFE mode was the only cure, I can't continue to work in that mode forever. I'm hoping Apple can see that there is this issue and can come up with an update soon to take care of the sluggishness and display problem.