Quick Look Fix for Mac

Fix your Mac's quick look spacebar preview

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Fix your Mac's quick look spacebar preview

28 followers

When your Mac's spacebar image/video preview doesn't work and shows you the thumbnail, fix it with a click from the menu bar.

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Numbrle

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🙋‍♂️ Hi Product Hunters and makers! 🤩 Today I want to introduce you my new Mac menu bar app Quick Look Fix. 😎 Quick Look Fix is a lightweight app that sits on your menu bar. When your spacebar preview (Quick Look) doesn't work, you just click Fix Quick Look Now from the menu and preview the image again, it works. ✅ You have the option to automatically run it on system start. You can check it from the menu or if you change your mind, disable it easily. 😇 The idea of this one actually came from my own need. We all know that cliche entrepreneur talk, "Fix people's problems, give them solutions, make their lives easier..." This is the most appropriate one in my personal history. I can assure you, instead of listening to TED talks, it feels better to deliver. 😹 I petted a lot of cats while coding this. When I get bored I go and spend time with cats. So one of my furry friends became the logo and the demo image while he's wearing some women's slippers. (I don't know what he was thinking while doing that, but he became the icon.) 👨‍💻 The app doesn't do anything permanent. When quick look fails you just click Fix Quick Look Now from menu once and open the image again. You don't lose time with restarting the computer or Finder etc. This app does not restart Finder or computer. 🤗 You can freely try the app for 7 days without giving any payment info. 🧐 Hope you enjoy it, I'm curious about your comments and experience.

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4yr ago

Raycast

@smih what does it actually do to fix the issue, and what causes the issue?

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4yr ago

Numbrle

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@chrismessina Cleans the cache of the quick look. I don't exactly know why the problem happens in the first place. I think it may be happening because of full memory, full cache. There may be an interrupt of that cache cleaning cycle when we put the machine on sleep. Because it happens more when there is a lot of heavy background processes(multiple developing environments, youtube, a lot of tabs) and you wake the computer back from sleep after long time. But this is just an assumption.

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4yr ago