Quick Look spacebar shortcut no longer working

It just quit working. Normally you can just highlight an object in finder, hit space and it opens in quicklook. extremely simple and useful. well, it doesnt do it anymore and its really got me stumped. It's not listed in the keyboard shortcuts in system preferences. I have no idea where to look or what to do to fix it, does anyone have any ideas?

nevermind, I just opened up the terminal and did a "killall Finder" and it works again, must have been a glitch.

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