Quick Look Problem ?

I was just wondering why when I use QuickLook with 2 monitors, anything I QuickLook, picture/Music/Video etc.. always goes over to my other Screen I have hooked up to my iMac ? I want to quick Look it on the main screen (iMac Screen) not have to turn on the Other monitor every time I want to quick Look something. I think it's rather annoying having to turn that other monitor on all the time to view what I want, or drag it over to my main iMac screen to see. Now if I unplug the Other monitor it's just fine. Only when I have another monitor plugged in it does this.
I looked up and down in the System Prefs to figure this out, and found Nothing. It's either a bad part on apples side, or there is something I"m missing.

I had that same problem and I believe that I just "Quick Looked" a jpeg which opened on my other monitor (the wrong one) and while it was open moved the window to my main monitor. Once I did that I closed the quick look window and then reopened the same file using quick look again and I found it then opened on my main monitor.
If this works then be carful about closing a quick look window. Make sure to close it on the monitor you want quick look to open on.

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