QuickLook doesn’t work with Chat transcript files

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Trying to use QuickLook for Chat transcript files isn’t working anymore on my machine.

First it takes >10 seconds to load (for files <20KB) – and then when it does finally load, it’s just an icon. I can’t actually read the chat.

Anybody else having this experience?

I’m not even quite sure what to try resetting! Deleting the QuickLook plists does not seem to have changed anything.

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Might want to flush your various caches, specifically font caches - I like Cocktail and Lion Cache Cleaner for both.

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It is possible that some QL plugins are broken, you should check

~/Library/QuickLook/
/Library/QuickLook/
/System/Library/QuickLook/

for new QL plugins (check the date of the files). Maybe a program installed a new (broken) plugin? But some QL plugins are not inside the Library/QuickLook/ folders you can use

qlmanage -m

to list all QL plugins, with

qlmanage -m | grep -v com.apple

you see only plugins which are not from Apple.

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