Mac QuickLook Preview Not Working (How to Fix)

Here is exactly what to do when your mac finder spacebar preview is not working. All the important information is shown in the video, so hopefully, by the end of it, you'll know what to do when your spacebar finder preview doesn't play that video, doesn't show the image when you click the space bar on your Mac.

Hope it does help you.

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[AprilLeon]

WOW thank you so much for this I had to update my mac and then i had this issue thank you so much you were the first video and it worked out SUPER for me Thank you

[annvansteenkiste]

I was so frustrated, because I use it all the time. This was so useful, thank you so much for sharing your insights!

[charakaile]

Thanks, fixed a problem on my new laptop that was seriously annoying me!

[CantaconJess]

Amazing!!! Thank you! I could fix it thanks to your video :)

[robertdiaz]

Yeah! 2 years later your solution works. You only realize how much you rely on it when it no longer works. Thanks.

[beabeaar]

Oh my goodness I've had this problem for a while now, makes my work so much easier. Thank u so much

[sfnyc]

Worked for me, thanks... didn't think about it immediately and should've since when disks refuse to eject it's often because the quick view "holds onto" a file in the external disk and makes it impossible to eject that disk unless the process is killed first.

[Las_cacas]

Woah that worked!!! had to force quit all activity monitor... dude thanks so much!

[jaredstanley]

Wait a second, I have to go to the activity monitor and quit the thing I'm trying to get to work? That doesn't make any sense to me... but it worked. Thank you! That was driving me crazy!

[turntablog]

Thanks!! saved me hours of investigating.

[mtaturu]

Thank you so much brother! this really saved me.

[jamesgarnham]

Amazing!!!! Thanks, this has been annoying me for ages.

[safetyhomeloans]

thank you for making this video. Kudos!!!! it worked! Question...why did it happen in the 1st place? It was working fine for me and then all of a sudden it stopped working.. thank you

[gzell]

Thank you recently thought i was bugging out. Appreciate the quick fix

[kwanweihoong]

Thank you so much. You got no idea how happy this fix made me!

[BetsyPeterson-qm]

Thank you!!!! Have been missing this forever. :)

[liviapinzari]

THANK YOU!!! so much! this was so helpful.

[Fokkuhs]

1. go to the apple icon top left corner
2. go to force quit
3. go to "finder"
4. relaunch finder

[beyondtheboxes]

Huge thanks, this was driving me crazy!

[bananaorangeguy]

took me a few time to quit, and force quit, and it's eventually try to preview any mov file with spacebar and it worked!!! thanks