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Quick Look doesn't work within Apple Music artwork folder

I've just updated the main Mac where my Apple Music (i.e., old iTunes) library is, and now I can no longer use Quick Look to preview the images in the artwork (~/Library/Containers/com.apple.AMPArtworkAgent/Data/Documents/artwork) folder.


According to the thread Trouble with Preview and Quick Look - Apple Community, it seems this is an "expected behaviour" but I do have a use case to continue manually looking at and somewhat manage those images: making sure they're in the right resolution (<600x600px, 72dpi) to fit/be displayed on my old iPods that I sync with that library.


It is really obnoxious Quick Look works on those same files as soon as I move them to another folder, and they can even be open normally with Preview... Just NOT with Quick Look directly from Finder. All of them display something like this:


This is an at best obnoxious and at worst ridiculous behaviour, limited specifically to this folder!


Mac mini, macOS 15.1

Posted on Nov 23, 2024 5:34 PM

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Quick Look doesn't work within Apple Music artwork folder

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