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previews not showing in Finder

I'm running High Sierra on a 2013 MacBook Air. I always view files in Finder in column view with preview column shown. Recently, the previews have not been loading--I indefinitely get the gray circling loading icon instead.

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)

Posted on Mar 17, 2018 11:29 AM

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