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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 ...
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 -r
In 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.
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.
- Deleting the qlgenerator works!
Found that even iif you delete the qlgenerator it will be again on place because Dropbox app install it again, so is neccesary to rename the plugin inside the app content
mv /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/DropboxQL.qlgenerator /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/_DropboxQL.qlgenerator
That way Dropbox can't copy it again to the Quicklook plugins folder.
NOTE: Any way do this at your risk.
