helping Does this setting take effect immediately or do I have to restart? Maybe that is my problem; I didn't restart. I did find the switches for StitchBuddy in Quick Look and turned them on and everything else off.
It's not necessary to disable all other extensions, but only whose (potentially) conflicting: For example I'd decide between StitchBuddy and Embrilliance (both handling embroidery designs), while e.g. Pixelmator is unrelated, assigned to image files.
Here are the next steps I'd try - unfortunately no guaranteed solutions, but just trying to find the hick-up:
- Are embroidery files associated with StitchBuddy? Check if you can open a design in StitchBuddy just by double-clicking. If not, right-click the file, use the context menu item "Open With" - "Other…", select StitchBuddy and check the Option "Always Open With" before clicking on "Open". Side-note: This will not fix the issue with .JPX files not being previewed / opened by double-click.
- Is StitchBuddy's Preview assigned to embroidery files? Select a design in the Finder and hit the spacebar (or use the context menu item "Quick Look"): Is a preview presented in a separate window and if so, is it from StitchBuddy?
- Is StitchBuddy Preview capable of reading the embroidery file? Open the "Terminal" app (it's located in the "Utilities" folder). Enter the following command and replace <filepath> with the complete path to and name of an embroidery file: You can just drag a file from the Finder to Terminal after typing the first part, and its path is automatically inserted after your input: No typos and much easier 🙂
qlmanage -p <filepath>
Hit Return, now the design should be shown in a window similar to Quick Look.
- Reset the internal Quick Look process: Enter the following command in Terminal:'
qlmanage -r
- Rebooting your Mac shouldn't be necessary - but it's (almost) never a bad idea.
If all the steps above fail, there is an additional command to check if enforcing the correct Quick Look extension / file type works, which would confirm my suspicion that file type assignments are currently conflicting between Embrilliance and StitchBuddy. But that's just an educated guess, let's talk about it later (it would be helpful to know the file format your wife is using by default).
Unfortunately qlmanage is a relict for legacy plugins (aka Quick Look generators), and its output and effects are not always considering new extensions - and Apple's documentation isn't very exhaustive, too.
I'm happy to hear additional ideas / suggestions or even experiences from others…
