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Finder doesn't show thumbnail previews for RAW files
Since I upgraded to Lion (10.7.5), Finder doesn't display thumbnail previews of ARW files. ARW is a Sony RAW image format (in my case files were produced by Sony NEX-5 camera). Finder used to display ...
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Mountain Lion way to QuickLook folders
The freeware Folder.qlgenerator was already broken by Lion.
defaults write QLEnableXRayFolders -bool true
does not appear to work in ML. Does anyone have a replacement solution? I’m looking ...
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How to open a file in the default application for it directly from QuickLook?
Is there a way to open a file straight from QuickLook?
I have a directory containing symlinks to the PDF files I usually refer to. I cannot copy the files locally and I must use symlinks. When I need ...
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Are there QuickLook plugins that show more details about Applications? (.app)
Is there a better QuickLook plugin than the built-in for quicklooking applications?
Something that would show more of the info define in Foobar./Contents/Info.plist, like version number and bundle ...
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How do I keep QTKitServer (QuickLook Helper) CPU usage from exploding out of control? OR How do I disable QuickLook entirely?
I've been watching lots of .MKVs lately, opened from the Finder. In Column View, when you single-click any file, QuickLook will load a viewable thumbnail into the next column over. This causes ...
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QuickLook HTML plugin?
I'm looking for a plugin that will display me the text of HTML files in QuickLook rather than a preview of the rendered HTML.
Does anyone know of such a plugin?
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com.apple.qtkitserver CPU usage on OS X Lion
I'm on Lion 10.7.3 and every now and then, com.apple.qtkitserver hogs my CPU @ 100% for a little less than a minute, especially when there's something happening on Finder.
I know that QTKitServer is ...
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How to enable Antialiasing in Finder's preview column and QuickLook?
The title pretty much says it all, plain text files are a bit annoying to read on QuickLook (and to preview on finder's preview column) due to a lack of antialiasing.
On the General preference panel ...
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How can I activate the text preview in Finder's column view for an arbitrary filetype or document type
I really like the preview functionality that Finder offers in the last column of the column view. However, not all filetypes or document types are associated with a preview.
For example when I have ...
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Can I detach the QuickLook window from the Finder?
I use QuickLook a lot to quickly open PDF files. I like the speed and clutter-free presentation more than using Preview.
But unfortunately, it is tied to the Finder and disappears when I change to ...
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Aperture (iPhoto) quick view
I’ve put all my photographs into Aperture’s photo library which means that in the Finder they are hidden in a special folder, making it virtually impossible to quickly browse the photos there. On the ...
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How can I disable media playback in Finder document icons?
I'm on Lion now, and hoped that Apple would have added the option to disable the quick preview buttons on the icons some way. Here's the problem I have:
When I click on a video in Finder just to ...
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Can Quick Look be made into an application to preview URLs in apps like Twitter?
Lion's improved Quick Look can now preview web pages. The full screen view and quick launching make it superb for peeking at a web page without having to launch a browser; which, in my case, always ...
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Customize Quick Look to allow me to view .yml files
I would like to use "space" to preview *.yml files directly out of the finder on Mac OS X.
I think I have to tell finder to launch the text file quick view handler for files with that type and this ...
