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whomwah / qlstephen

A QuickLook plugin that lets you view plain text files without a file extension
https://github.com/whomwah/qlstephen
MIT License
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Inconsistent Behavior Across Different File Locations #138

Closed acrutt closed 1 year ago

acrutt commented 1 year ago

I had positive experiences using this software when I installed it a few years ago on my MacBook Pro. I recently got a new MacBook Air (OS Monterey 12.5.1) and tried installing qlstephen using homebrew. I've been having trouble with inconsistent functionality of qlstephen on my MacBook Air.

For example, when I try to preview a pdf file with the spacebar, I will get different results (expected preview of file contents with qlstephen vs. default mac preview that does not show the file contents) depending on the folder the file is located in. This has also happened when I tried testing by copying the same file to multiple locations and seeing what happens when I try the spacebar preview. A copy of the same file results in different spacebar preview results.

Within the same folder, I will also get different results depending on the type of file. For example, pdf files will show the expected qlstephen preview, but word files in the same folder have the default mac preview.

I have not been able to come up with any rationale behind why the functionality of the spacebar preview is inconsistent. The only place on my MacBook Air where I've found qlstephen works as expected (on multiple different files types) is my Downloads folder.

acrutt commented 1 year ago

I realized that this issue was caused by files not being stored locally on my computer. The full preview was only unavailable for files stored in the cloud. No issues now for files stored locally!