A HDF5 QuickLook Plugin for macOS Finder

This is a simple Quicklook plugin for macOS Finder to preview the structure of HDF5 files. This works with extensions .h5 and .hdf5.

It requires that hdf5 is installed:

brew install hdf5

Installation

Pre-compiled binaries are provided for Apple Silicon (Arm64) here: Releases

To install, you need to place the main app HDF5QL.app in the Applications folder and launch it once. This should register the plugin with the operating system and it should work. The main app needs to remain in the Applications folder.

If it does not work, try running this:

qlmanage -r cache
qlmanage -r
killall -9 Finder
killall -9 mdworker_shared