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Ever since upgrading to Monterey, QuickLook has been super flaky. Often times showing a thumbnail instead of a preview. Only after restarting the finder will a true preview reappear. Is it just me?
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No. Quick Look has been flaky that way since Catalina.
...And if you access a file server, take care not to use Quick Look on a file on the server. It will mark the file as "busy" indefinitely thereafter and prevent you from moving/deleting it.
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Sometimes quitting and restarting the Finder will fix it. Sometimes it takes a restart. FWIW, I've not noticed a problem in a couple of Monterey incremental updates (I'm on 12.3.1 at this point).
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It's even in the beta.
Keep reporting it.
Keeps showing up.
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yup, same here. in activity monitor, you can force quit the quick look UI service (finder), and it should start working agin. I tend to have to do it about once daily on mine.