Preview: freezes every time I save and close a window

I updated to El Capitan the night of the public (non-beta) release. Since that day Preview has been doing strange things. The most frustrating thing is that Preview freezes and stops responding every time I do the following

(I have a PDF open in Preview)

- Save and close (in immediate succession): command S, command W

(pinwheel, unresponsive)

I have to force quit, submit a crash report and then restart.

I work with PDFs all day long, so this has destroyed by productivity. I really don't want to have to restore the OS and pull everything over, one-by-one again only to find that the problem isn't fixed (a la "Finder tags disappear while typing them in (in Preview)"). So before we go nuclear, does anyone have any tips? Would deleting a plist be a sensible idea?

Thanks in advance. (And thanks for past help!)

MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Oct 24, 2015 7:59 PM

21 replies

xser Author

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Nov 5, 2015 6:43 AM in response to Glenn Leblanc

Sadly, it's doing it again. Whenever I save (or save and then immediately close [command + S, command + w]), Preview pinwheels and stops responding.

Nov 5, 2015 12:36 PM in response to Glenn Leblanc

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xser Author

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Nov 9, 2015 12:52 PM in response to Glenn Leblanc

Thanks Glenn. I tried this and the problem persists. I'll try CellarDwellr's suggestion next chance I get.

Nov 24, 2015 5:55 PM in response to xser

I have similar problem. But I've never tried what you did, BUT as I use preview for a few hours, it just randomly freezes and shows beachball. Rarely, it get to normal, but most of the time, it stays frozen. So I have to force quit Preview. Especially if I have many pdf files open, it freezes much much more frequently, and it's annoying as hel*. I'm now using Adobe Reader, but I hate it because it's pretty choppy when scrolling. Preview was smoother, and it's not usable at the moment. I'm a university student, and I have to deal with PDF every day, and this hinders my productivity as well.

xser Author

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Nov 24, 2015 5:57 PM in response to Community User

On the one hand, I'm sorry that you're also having the trouble. On the other hand, I'm glad to know someone else can reproduce it.

Sep 17, 2017 3:48 AM in response to Glenn Leblanc

YES!!

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