Re: MacOS Ventura Quick Look not working for .ly files

[Hans Aikema]

Looks like some app on your system wrongly claims quicklook support for ly files.

On my system (Ventura on a M1 Macbook pro, Frescobaldi 3.3.0 and Lilypond lilypond 2.24 .1 installed via macports) quicklook does not act at all on .ly files (shows the file summary and icon like other unsupported files).

Based on

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/quicklook

any app can define quicklook plugins

Apple has a CLI command to show the quicklook registered apps:

qlmanage -m

(see qlmanage --help for a full overview of the quicklook management capabilities)

On 3 May 2023, at 03:42, Mark Harris <regmaark@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks. I’ve tried changing the program that opens them, as you suggest, but it still doesn’t work, and gives the same error message.

On 2/05/2023, at 11:48 PM, Jeff Kopmanis <kopmanis@gmail.com> wrote:

Try Get Info on one of the files and change the program used for all.

I have the same issue, but haven't dug into it yet.

On Tue, May 2, 2023, 4:24 AM Mark Harris <regmaark@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I’ve recently tried to use Lilypond on a MacBook Air M2 with Ventura. Quick Look is a vital part of my workflow, as I work with hundreds of .ly files, and always used to work on my old Mac with an older operating system. Now when I try to Quick Look a .ly file, I get the message:

“The extension com.apple.tips.TipsAppQuicklook-macOS does not implement file previews”

Can anyone help me solve this?

Many thanks,

Mark