Preview died on me "This application cannot work with this version of OS X"

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  1. jbunit009, Aug 27, 2008

    jbunit009 macrumors newbie

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    Basically, one day I tried to open preview and I got the above error "This application cannot work with this version of OS X".

    I didn't make any changes to my system, I didn't install any new programs, I didn't update OS X. I'm really at a loss for what caused this and it is annoying me greatly.

    Any ideas? Google turns up nothing and I haven't had any luck searching the forums.
     
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  2. iwuzbord, Aug 27, 2008

    iwuzbord macrumors 6502

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    did you happen to move the preview app, or rename it.
    if not, reinstall it using the first restore disk that came with your mac
     
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  3. r.j.s, Aug 27, 2008

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    Not sure what might have caused it, but you might try restoring preview from Time Machine if you are on Leopard and using TM.

    If not, I'd recommend reinstalling OS X in order to make sure that whatever it is didn't corrupt anything else. Consider doing a hardware test, if your HD is failing, that may have caused the corruption.
     
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