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

[jbunit009]

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.

 

[iwuzbord]

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

 

[r.j.s]

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.