I have been using MacBook pro-2017 for about a year, in the mean time I have added a couple of quiclook generators (e.g.
Related links:
https://www.cnet.com/news/fixing-quick-look-issues-in-os-x/
QLStephen.qlgenerator
) for various services for the Finder.
For quite a few days it was working good, but now, I encountered a strange problem. Nowadays I can not see the contents of any file in the finder, e.g. when I click on a a.txt file it shows no contents, but when pressed Shift key it shows the QuickView of the item.
How to restore the original settings of the Finder?
I tried deleting all the quicklook plugins, but still, the problem is sustained.
Attempt:
cd ~/Library/QuickLook
sudo mkdir backup
sudo mv *.qlg* backup/
qlmanage -r
killall Finder
PS:
I tried also deleting all the contents of QuickLook
and restarted the computer. Still it does not work. Maybe I have to reset the Finder settings, but I don't know how?
Note that here the a.txt
is not empty but Finder shows nothing.
**How can we make the Finder show the contents of this file?**
**Update**
Backed up and deleted the QuickLook folders from the computer.
sudo mv /Library/QuickLook ~/library_quicklook
sudo mv ~/Library/QuickLook ~/home_library_quicklook
sudo rm -rf com.apple.quicklook.ui.helper.plist
sudo rm -rf com.apple.quicklookconfig.plist
sudo rm -rf com.apple.QuickLookDaemon.plist
qlmanage -r
qlmanage -r cache
killall Finder
Still does not work.

Asked by BhishanPoudel
(233 rep)
Jul 30, 2018, 05:26 PM
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