Preview for Mac crashes after installing Sierra 10.12

Do a backup, preferable 2 backups on 2 separate drives.

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 manage around 20 Macs and after a recent push to Sierra, we are regretting the update. This is an issue (among many other issues) we've seen on a few of the Macs now running Sierra. Pdf's cause Preview to crash when opening them from an e-mail or trying to print them in preview. Still haven't figured out the cause or a workaround. Will try the transfer to desktop method.

Sierra is so far the worst Mac OS release (including when it was called OS X), forcing at least one reboot per day. It reminds me of when I was on MS Windows. Apple used to be much better, I hope this is going to be fixed quickly.

Of course the instructions given through the above link do not help at all, they just tell us to perform one more reboot plus the usual pitch on safe mode booting and hardware checking. These crashes are not related to any special hardware, all of my colleagues incur them, whatever their configuration, and whether their Mac is standalone or connected to external displays or other devices.

All I can advise you to do is to save your work frequently and restart your previewer where you left (crashed).

Also, if your Mac displays a spinning wheel and becomes sluggish for no reason, rebooting it seems to be the only solution. With a high end configuration (16GB memory, early 2015 MacBook Pro 13 inch, 3.1GHz i7 and 1TB flash SSD), I need to reboot at least once per 24h, whereas El Capitan was running smoothly for weeks (previous versions were running for months… spot the pattern).

I experience the same issue with Sierra. When I drag a PDF from an email attachment into another PDF document opened in Preview, Preview crashes. I have to drag the PDF from the email and onto my desktop. I can then drag it into Preview and combine with the other PDF document without Preview crashes.

I also have other issues with Preview. I have a form in PDF format, in which I have to enter data in several text fields. Before Sierra I could just use Tab to switch between the text fields. Now I have to use the cursor to activate each text field before I can enter data in them.

When I have entered the text and saved the document, then I cannot use the same PDF document again and alter the data in the text fields. When I try to activate one of the text fields, it just turns black and I cannot enter new data in the field.

I have the same error with a brand new MacBook Air. With Sierra 10.12.6, from day one, preview freezes when opening a .pdf But my other Macs do not have this problem using the same OS.