Safari randomly can't open or go back when viewing local files/photos

[nickdalzell1]

I often use Safari as a photo viewer to view images (I make little comic series, and it conveniently allows me to go back and forward when opening a pack, they're all JPGs stored on the SSD). But lately oftentimes if I go 'back' two or three images in the set, I get this weird error that says:

Safari cannot open file (something about NSURLErrorDomain:-3001)

That makes no sense as it's not on the internet, but stored locally in my downloads folder. This only started recently. Can't find much online as they're all regarding websites, but this is just local image sets that have been opened previously and I'm just going back a 'page' or two in history, so the file had already been loaded but it just refuses to go back. I have to close/reopen the entire tab to fix it. I don't know why this happens as it's again a local file, not a website.

 

[hg.wells]

Can’t help with the issue, never thought of using Safari for browsing local files.

Try using Quick Look, open the folder in Finder, select one image, click the space bar to preview it and you can use the left and right keys to go through the files in the folder.

 

[Boyd01]

I just tried opening a bunch of images in a folder with Safari. No problems going backwards and forwards, but I'm on an old version of Safari/Monterey. A quick search suggested this could be a bug that was introduced in Sequoia.

 

[bogdanw]

but stored locally in my downloads folder.

Downloaded files have the quarantine attribute added and Sequoia has some issues with opening some of them.

You could remove the quarantine attribute for images, similar to https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/untrusted-files.2436846/post-33716485

but I suggest to use qView for viewing images https://interversehq.com/qview/

 

[nickdalzell1]

I also have random issues where Safari won't download a file claiming I'm out of space but got 230 GB left.

Safari is easier because I can use gestures to go forward and back and zooming doesn't distort as badly as using Preview or other photo viewer apps.

Here's the full error text. Only going back to images I've browsed in the same tab before. Goes forward fine, but refuses to go back more than one image. You can open the image directly but all zoom settings are lost and makes me have to zoom again, or pan again. Going back/forward did the best job of 'turning pages' before this bug.

Firefox has no issue with this but I can't gesture back or forward with it, and in full screen the toolbar/menu tends to get stuck and won't go away. It also has a larger memory footprint that causes me to get 'your Mac is running out of system memory, please close some apps' after enough packs are open, and tends to update whenever it feels like it which closes the browser and all tabs and then I lose my place.