Quick Look doesn’t work when Photo Booth is open
Quick Look, Leopard’s really great feature that allows you to look at files quickly without opening any applications, seemingly doesn’t work when Photo Booth is open.
Ever since upgrading to Leopard I’ve found Quick Look to be one of the best new features that I use every day. Heck, I probably use Quick Look more than any other new feature in Mac OS 10.5. I use it to preview email attachments, quickly look at PDF files, and photos, and I even open audio files with it sometimes.
However, I was messing around with the latest version of Photo Booth and I noticed that I could not pull open Quick Look for a JPG file on my desktop. At first I thought my Finder was frozen, or - my computer itself was doing something behind the scenes - so I gave it a second or two to recuperate. Nothing. So I closed Photo Booth and poof, Quick Look worked.
Just for testing reasons, and my own curiosity, I fired up Photo Booth and the same thing occurred. Weird? Odd? Expected? Am I the only one?
I’m going to keep testing after a reboot.
Update: I just wanted to update that after I booted up this morning (since I generally shut my Macbook down every night) the problem has disappeared. Fluke? Who knows, but thanks to everyone who commented and sent me instant messages to tell me that it was only me.
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Colin, I tried it and have no problems. My version is 10.5.0.
I wonder if it is being caused by a quick look plugin problem. Just a thought.
Mike on January 2nd, 2008 6:00 pm
I just tested the scenario and Quick Look works fine for me with Photo Booth open.
Ronald Heft on January 2nd, 2008 7:06 pm
Mike, Ronald: So - after I booted up this morning. The problem is gone. All I had to do was reboot.
I don’t have any Quick Look plugins installed, btw. The only one I’ve seen is the “look inside a zip” plugin. Are there others?
Colin Devroe on January 3rd, 2008 9:37 am