I recently updated to macOS Mojave and it seems it doesn't generate previews to any of the .SVGs I am working with. For example:
All I get is this loader and nothing loads in the preview. Same for when you use "Spacebar" to preview the file nothing shows.
Is that a bug?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Mojave (10.14)
Well, that wasn't happening to me before the update. Here is a link to a folder where I have a bunch of SVGs. Before the update, the previews were generating. And now they are not:
This is what I see on any of them:
The preview on the side or the preview with a SpaceBar displays just the loader and yet the small thumbnails are generated. So weird.
Okey, I think it now works. I think the issue was with Google File Stream, I deleted the app and all its cache along with the synced files from ~/<username>/Library/Application Support/Google/DriveFS , emptied the bin and reinstalled Google File Stream.
After it loaded my files again, the previews started showing.
Not sure why on the desktop wasn't working either but the good thing is that now it works on both the local files and file stream files.
Thanks, guys!
My Mojave (and High Sierra) Finder and Quick Look display .svg files just fine. I do know that some applications do not generate well-formed .svg files, or create non-standard .svg format (Inkscape can generate different formats of the .svg standard), and some hand-coded .svg may be too complex for some applications like Illustrator to completely resolve.
I wonder if booting into Safe mode, and its housekeeping effects, may rebuild the launch services database, or clear out anything that may be interfering with Finder.
I would also be inclined to run the following Quick Look manager command from the Terminal that resets the Quick Look Server, and QL clients caches.
qlmanage -r
I didn't need to do any of the above for Mojave to work fine with .svg files.
Well, I suppose it's possible the current SVG format isn't compatible but I don't know that. If you have Dropbox and want to post the link to it here someone can check.
Are all the designers on Mojave?
The lack of .svg support in Preview has not changed from prior Apple operating systems, nor is it a bug. Finder will display .svg though, which is misleading to Apple's otherwise omission of support. You can right-click on a .svg and from the Open with sub-menu, choose Safari, Firefox, or Google Chrome as a view-only tool.
The Affinity products (Designer, Photo, and Publisher [beta]), GIMP, Inkscape1, and probably Pixelmator (among select others) will open .svg files. LibreOffice will open .svg in its Draw application, via the main Open menu item.
1 Inkscape requires XQuartz (X Window System) installation as it is not yet native on macOS.
Hi all,
Just to clarify that 3 people are on Mojave and have that problem.
We have no problem opening the SVGs with Illustrator or whatsoever. The problem is with the macOS Preview App that is not generating previews in the Finder of the SVGs.
If you are using a local Google Drive client, you may need to update it, or wait for stated Mojave compatibility from Google. I only use Google Drive through a browser, and have no local filesystem .svg viewing issues with Mojave.
Don't know the issue. It would be different if not all the designers had the same issue. Do you all use Google File Stream? What happens if you just save an svg directly somewhere other than to your Google Drive?
This is a weird solution, but it's worked twice. I downloaded and installed a free graphics program (first time Gapplin, second time Krita) and had a folder with svgs open after I opened the graphics program. After relaunching Finder, the svg previews started showing up. This stopped working after the first time with Gappling, so I installed Krita the second time and now they're working again. Leaving this here for anyone who really needs this fixed.
What program was used to generate the .svg's? I only have a couple but they work.
They display fine here…
Can you post a EtreCheck report? Perhaps something you have installed is interfering.
Ha, interesting! Well I have Adobe Creative Cloud and so do the designers I work with and none of us sees the svg previews :/ on Mojave. Not sure what is happening.
FWIW, the Finder nor Quick Look seems to display SVG files for the OP. He didn't mention the Preview app.
Beats me. The user is using Adobe CC which I assume includes Illustrator. I suspect you're correct that they are non-standard or not well formed.
Downloaded fine for me.
macOS Mojave doesn't display .SVGs in preview
