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Andrew D.4
Helpful | Level 5
7 years ago

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 ...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    6 years ago
    If 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!
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sugikota
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

The same phenomenon have been occurring from when the latest version of Dropbox had been released.

Andrew D.4 wrote:

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 and Mojave. My colleagues also seem to be experiencing the same issue.

I finally took the time this week to figure out what is causing the issue. As far as I can tell the problem is caused by Dropbox Finder integration. As soon as I turned off Dropbox finder integration (and restart the machine) file previews and Quick Look work perfectly.

For now I'm keeping Dropbox Finder integration turned off - I'm a designer and image previews are incredibly useful.  I'd prefer to be able to enable Dropbox Finder integration as the sync status icons are useful. 

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix?

 


 

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