Oct 01
“This is a QuickLook plugin for MacOS-X 10.5/10.6 that allows QuickLook preview of Animated GIFs. The current GIF support in the Finder doesn’t show animations. This plugin extends the Finder to allow QuickLook to display the GIF in its animated form.”
More information and download.
October 17th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Installed it in OS X 10.6 and restarted Finder then looked at an animated gif. Sorry to say but it did nothing.
Does this really work with 10.6 Snow Leopard?
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:56 am
Anders – it is definitely working for me under 10.6!
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Aah damn, I even rebooted now, still nothing.
Did you put in in your user library?
October 30th, 2009 at 8:46 am
You have no idea how long I’ve been after this. WIN
January 16th, 2010 at 3:48 am
It works fine. But I have to put the Plugin manually in Library/Quicklook instead of User/Library/Quicklook. In the Userlibrary it does not work.
February 14th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
have you ever tried this command in terminal?
qlmanage -r
Try it and quicklook should be updated
March 8th, 2010 at 4:50 am
Gustavo Ovalle, thank you, now it works on Snow Leopard.
July 16th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
I’ve been on Mac for 3 years now, it’s lack of .gif preview was the only thing that ever bothered me after the first week. Thankyou So Much for this!! =D
[hehe, goes to enjoy all the random .gifs stored on his comp with quickpreview =P]
July 18th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
this totally works with 10.6.4 after issuing the comannd
qlmanage -r
cheers 🙂
March 28th, 2011 at 3:26 pm
Definitely isn’t working for me in 10.6.7
May 1st, 2011 at 12:57 pm
This is not working for 10.6.7. I tried all of that and I still got that small blue box with a question mark.
July 13th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
It works well running under 10.6.8, thanks a lot
January 15th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
I ran the install file. Logged out and back in as it stated, and it works like a charm. It adds a scroll bar sometimes instead of resizing GIFs to fit within the QuickLook window, but other than that it works great. I’m running OSX 10.6.8.
December 31st, 2013 at 9:21 am
The good:
-The gif’s run in the real.
The bad:
-transparent gif areas will appear black.
-in most gifs you will see white and/or black borders around the image.
-there is no (easy) way to unistall the plugin in some OS (ex Mountain Lion).
March 29th, 2015 at 12:50 am
OSX Yosemite and beyond GIF QuickLook secrets manual
I’m leaving this because I had such a hard time figuring out how to fix it.
This plugin works BEAUTIFULLY from OSX 10.5 Leopard to 10.9 Mavericks. If you have these platforms, get it and run the installer. If you have OSX Yosemite (or, predictably, anything beyond it), Apple has added NATIVE Quicklook support for animated GIFs. This plugin BREAKS THIS SUPPORT.
If you had the plugin prior to upgrading to Yosemite, the upgrade will not remove it and your GIF functionality will not work in QuickLook.
To UNINSTALL this plugin, go to the /library folder and open the QuickLook folder. This is NOT the MacOS Harddisk/library or System/library folder. It’s a HIDDEN folder in your own directory. To access it, click the GO menu in the Finder menu (top bar) and press and hold the Option key. Select the “Library” directory that appears there. Inside the Quicklook folder, you’ll see the actual AnimatedGIF_QL.qlgenerator plugin file. DELETE it and you’ll immediately have your native GIF support working again.
Cheers! I hope this helps somebody!
December 12th, 2015 at 1:14 am
Thank you very much N15h0
January 20th, 2016 at 5:40 pm
Hi, N15h0!!!!!!!! It worked native preview again!!!!!! i love you!!! thankyou for information!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 13th, 2016 at 4:44 pm
Thank You N150h0 for your excellent instructions. This solved my problem immediately.