Preview just loading when opening a .pdf

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Preview just loading when opening a .pdf

Hey.

The problem i'm having is when i'm trying to open a large (~20mb and larger) .pdf file in preview it just loads. It never opens! It doesnt matter if i wait for 10 minutes or 10 hours. It just wont open. I can open it in Chrome but it's so laggy.

I have a macbook pro late 2008 with a ssd instead of the orignial harddrive, 4gb ram and Yosemite is installed on it. ( Have the same problem regardless of OS and harddrive).

When opening the same file on my macbook early 2008 with a ssd, 2gb ram and Mountain Lion installed it works good.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Mar 13, 2015 5:18 AM

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Linc Davis

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Mar 13, 2015 8:30 AM in response to choudron

Back up all data. Quit Preview if it's running.

Hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the Finder menu bar. From the Library folder, delete the following items, if they exist:

Containers/com.apple.Preview

Containers/com.apple.quicklook.ui.helper

Group Containers/com.apple.Preview

Preferences/com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList.plist

Preferences/com.apple.Preview.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList.plist

Saved Application State/com.apple.Preview.savedState

Log out and log back in. Launch the application and test.

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