This does not work on mac BigSur

[rbadapanda]

I get the error for malicious software

"this software needs to be updated"

[macsmister]

Confirming it does not work in Big Sur.

[Kurt-Shiwz]

+1

[danbarreto]

+1

[schmjop]

Try out these command from here.

• Run this to see the attributes:

xattr -r ~/Library/QuickLook

• And run this to remove the attributes:

xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine ~/Library/QuickLook

Works for me!

[alexchandel]

None of these work for me. Installed to ~/Library/QuickLook, com.apple.quarantine completely stripped, qlmanage -r and qlmanage -r cache, and QLStephen still fails.

[plpxsk]

To add a data point, it works for me on Big Sur 11.3

I was getting the security/privacy macOS popup and quick look, and so I followed instructions in README under Permissions (quarantine) and now it works.

There is an issue referenced at bottom of that section with more details

[benwoodward]

Works on Big Sur 11.3 for me.

[alexchandel]

Doesn't work on 11.4 for most text files

[andij]

I'm unable to get it to work on Big Sur 11.4.

[gimbo]

I appear to have it working on Big Sur 11.4 (fresh install on a 13" M1 MBP).

I followed the instructions in the README under Permissions (quarantine) as suggested by @pavopax above.

However: what those instructions don't mention (and perhaps should) is that after running the qlmanage commands you will still need to open your System Preferences, go to Security & Privacy / General, and tell Big Sur to allow QLStephen.qlgenerator.

For completeness, the steps I followed:

• Install via homebrew
• Restart machine; upon login I got the error mentioned in this issue.
• xattr -cr ~/Library/QuickLook/QLStephen.qlgenerator
• qlmanage -r
• qlmanage -r cache
• Open System Preferences / Security & Privacy / General and grant permission.
• Relaunch Finder (I actually did this via the "Force Quit" menu, not the way suggested in the README, but I'm sure the outcome is identical).
• Create a test README text file on my Desktop containing some words.
• Quick look that file — and it worked.

I then went ahead and tested vs various other previously-existing text files without extensions, and they all seemed to work. I mention this because @alexchandel's comment "Doesn't work on 11.4 for most text files" made me wonder if it was only partially working — but so far it looks good to me.

Hope this helps someone.

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Edit: then I followed the issue trail a bit further and found #87 and realised it isn't working if I change that README to README.1 — so maybe that's what @alexchandel is referring to there. Skipping to the end of that issue it seems there's a workaround which has to be applied on a per-extension basis? Ah well, OK! 😄 🤷🏻‍♂️

[harapeko]

#112 (comment)
This helped me.

[mjunkmyjunk]

tried #112 (comment)
but doesn't work.

[deden]

tried anthonygelibert/QLColorCode#88 (comment)
this helped me

[alichtman]

#112 (comment)

This worked for me on macOS Monterey 12.0.1