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Andrew D.4
7 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Dropbox Finder integration breaks Quick Look and thumbnails - Mac OS Mojave 10.14
For the past few months I've been having issues with image previews not loading on my Mac in Quick Look, Finder previews or icon thumbnails. I have experienced the problem on both Mac OS High Sierra ...
- 6 years agoIf anyone else is experiencing this issue still, please could you reach out to our support team directly in order for them to investigate this matter further.Feel free to attach a link to this thread as well in your email to the team.Thanks in advance!
Allyson B.
6 years agoNew member | Level 2
Same problem here. Tried upgrading to Mojave 10.14.2 and disenabling Finder integration, restarting, enabling Finder integration, restarting - neither resolved the issue. Following this in hopes of a fix soon.
- 3guk6 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Hey Guys,
If it's causing you issues you can just delete the dropbox quicklook plugin - sadly this recreates itself each time dropbox is started but you can work around that too:
In terminal use the following commands
rm -r ~/Library/QuickLook/DropboxQL.qlgenerator
touch ~/Library/QuickLook/DropboxQL.qlgenerator
qlmanage -rIn short, the first command removes the quicklook generator that dropbox installs. The second command creates a new empty file, so that dropbox can't install it's quicklook plugin when it starts up. Then the last command restarts the QuickLook service that creates the thumbnails.
This works perfectly for me, until the dropbox guys can come up with a QLplugin that doesn't cause my system to hang.
- len3d6 years agoNew member | Level 2
Don't use the comman that starts with "touch", the first and 3rd commands work right away without system restart.
rm -r ~/Library/QuickLook/DropboxQL.qlgenerator
qlmanage -r
Thank you! That was sooooo annoying.
- microbians6 years agoExplorer | Level 4Deleting the qlgenerator works!
- hiimak6 years agoNew member | Level 2
What's the reverse of this should they come up with a solution?
- Jay6 years agoDropbox StaffIf anyone else is experiencing this issue still, please could you reach out to our support team directly in order for them to investigate this matter further.Feel free to attach a link to this thread as well in your email to the team.Thanks in advance!
- goddardrj5 years agoNew member | Level 2
this works for me in high sierra thank buddy!
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