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I cannot suddenly open preview for my downloads. It used to be my default!

I am suddenly not able to open Preview to view my downloads, I get the message : Cannot open Preview - 1712

It is my default

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Mar 26, 2015 12:25 PM

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Mar 27, 2015 10:24 AM in response to tdeperalta

If the above doesn't work, you can try this.


Do a backup.


Quit Preview.


Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Remove the following. You may not find them all. Restart and test.


Containers/com.apple.Preview


Containers/com.apple.quicklook.ui.helper


Preferences/com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList.plist

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


Saved Application State/com.apple.Preview.savedState


Credit Linc Davis for this solution.

I cannot suddenly open preview for my downloads. It used to be my default!

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