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Andrew D.4
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago
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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 ...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    7 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!
Deli-cious F.'s avatar
Deli-cious F.
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago

Hey alexolmsted Yes I have Dropbox set to Local, I am not using Online Only and with Finder Integration on there is NO GREEN CHECKMARK in the bottom right of icon in icon view as you say.

To see that you would have to right click and open the menu and then select Smart Sync and see that Local has a green circle and tick.

However that is not my real issue

I am noticing that there is major weird issues with icon preview in List view. Column view shows icon previews but list view wont do it unless you select View Options and then change from Small to Large icon size. Then the icon previews show up. This seems to affect mainly the new Microsoft files but also PDF's

Odd thing is that even after running the 3 commands (including the touch one) the Quicklookplugin generator file has returned and shows up in Library-Quicklook

alexolmsted's avatar
alexolmsted
Helpful | Level 5
7 years ago

hey Deli-cious F. 

Hmm....here are some things to try:

  1. resetting PRam and SMC
  2. use "clean my mac" and try running permissions 
  3. Bootup in safeboot and see if QuickLook works
  4. Run disk repair from Recovery mode
  5. Re-installing Mojave

I don't recommend 4 & 5 until you've consulted with some experts tho. 

-A

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