macOS 15.2 – QuickLook not working…

[HirsuteJim]

I just got a new MacBook Pro M4 Max and installed macOS 15.2.  After installing Affinity Design, Photo, and Publisher (all the latest versions) macOS QuickLook is not working.

I checked and both

/Library/QuickLook

and

~/Library/QuickLook

and both are empty.

How can I manually install the Affinity .qlgenerator files?  I've tried deleting and reinstalling the Affinity apps ... same thing.

[MikeTO]

Do you mean macOS 15.1 which is the current version or 15.2 which is in beta?

Please check out this post from Serif with instructions on how to enable Quick Look.

 

[HirsuteJim]

No Affinity extensions are listed in my System Settings  ➙  Login Items & Extensions  ➙  Extensions  ➙  Quick Look.

I am on 15.2 beta 4.

[MikeTO]

7 minutes ago, HirsuteJim said:

No Affinity extensions are listed in my System Settings  ➙  Login Items & Extensions  ➙  Extensions  ➙  Quick Look.

I am on 15.2 beta 4.

And you installed the Affinity 2.6 beta? That's the only way to get the Quick Look extensions until 2.5.6 is released.

[HirsuteJim]

Ahhhh … Thank you for your quick response.  Do you have a link that I can use to download Affinity beta?

[MikeTO]

Here you go. Just installing the beta will install the extensions, you don't have to actually use the beta.

[Patrick Connor]

A 2.5.6 release build will also SOON fix this for all customers without the need for the installation of the beta.

2.5.6 is due for release as soon as it passes Apple's testing, as we like to release simultaneously on the Affinity Store and the Mac App Store. I hope that release can this week