Q: Preview eats up half (7.9GB) of my memory
This happens every time, the memory that preview occupies increases monotonically without upper limit. The only thing to prevent is to cmd-Q to quit.
And reopen is also problematic: after it opens I can scroll for a (not long) while, afterwards preview gets freezed for several tens of seconds and then recovers, this also happens everytime.
This issue seems to have started with the ibook pdf syncing functionality.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
Posted on Apr 16, 2016 8:48 PM
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.
Posted on Apr 17, 2016 4:59 PM