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My Preview keeps crashing. It no longer opens any of my PDFs and automatically crashes when i try to open a PDF. Where can i download Preview from so i can uninstall and re-install ?

Preview keeps crashing

imac, Mac OS X (10.6.1), mac osx tiger

Posted on May 1, 2016 11:08 AM

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May 3, 2016 8:40 AM in response to amvam

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.

My Preview keeps crashing. It no longer opens any of my PDFs and automatically crashes when i try to open a PDF. Where can i download Preview from so i can uninstall and re-install ?

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