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Make OS X's Quick Look work for custom file extensions

I find Finder's Quick Look feature (launched with Space) very useful, but it works only for a limited number of file extensions. In work I often get .properties, .conf, .ddl and other files which are essentially text, yet in Quick Look their content…
Nikita Rybak
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Open file with Quick Look from command shell

Mac OS X has the very convenient open command to open any file from the command line in the same way that the Finder would. thilo$ open a.pdf Is there a similar command for opening the file with Quick Look?
Thilo
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How to change font size or use another font in Quick Look on OSX?

I would like to change text files font in Quick Look on OSX. Tried to find answers on support forums but found none.
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Finder/Quick Look Malfunction after 10.8 OS upgrade

I upgraded to 10.8 and cannot shake this issue at all. I process image files daily as part of my work. For some reason only since my upgrade to 10.8, at some point Finder cannot preview any image nor can Quick Look. In order to get it back, I…
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How can I free files that are in use by quicklook?

I have a couple pictures I was looking through and deleting stuck in my trash (Mac OS X 10.6 latest) and finder tells me they are in use when I try to delete them. I looked around online and found the lsof command in terminal (type lsod with a…
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How to adjust default volume of a Quick Look for any audio file in Finder in macOS

I'd like to change the default value of Quick Look for any audio file in Finder. The value for volume slide stays same if you open Quick Look for the same file consecutively. However, it changes back to 100% everytime another audio file is…
m41w4r3.exe
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Use text quicklook viewer for other files

Is there a way to tell OS X to use the quicklook text viewer for files with specific extensions? For example, I use emacs org-mode for tasks lists, etc. Usually I view (and edit) these in emacs, however sometimes I browse in Finder and want to know…
Doug Harris
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how to change the default application for Mac OS quick look

Is it possible to change the application being used to quick look a certain file extension in Mac OS. (I'm using Mountain Lion). For example, right now the .properties file quick look is always showing as a black box (terminal-like icon with "exec"…
Robert A Henru
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Finder 'Quick Look' (space bar) in Mountain Lion (10.8) doesn't display full image anymore...

In Lion and Snow Leopard hitting the space bar in finder on any image would display that image at its exact dimensions or as close as it could get without bleeding past my display margins. Now in Mountain Lion hitting the space bar in Finder on an…
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Is there a quicklook folder contents plugin for Snow Leopard?

I know there are a lot of plugins like this for Leopard, but I am wondering if anyone knows of any for snow leopard? I want to be able to view the contents of a folder when I press space while hovering over it.
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How to make Quick Look preview text files in UTF-8 by default?

When I use Quick Look in the Finder on a text file, it'll inevitably render garbled because it treats it as MacRoman. Can I do something to make it always use UTF-8, or, even better, be ever so slightly smart about encoding detection? Maybe…
kch
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QuickLook in Finder not working

I recently restored my system from Time Machine and now when I press spacebar to do a quick preview on files it shows me nothing. Doesn't matter what type of file it is, it fails. Any idea what I can do to fix this?
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How can I make quicklook loop previewed videos?

When I use Quick Look in the Finder to preview an mp4 I would prefer if the videos looped over and over instead of stopping at the end, because the play back button is really tiny and hard to click. Pressing space twice again works but is terribly…
Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
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Any way to extend Quick Look so you can copy text from it?

I find quick look really handy, but I know you can't copy text from files without opening them. I wonder if there is any way around this, or if it would be possible to do with a plug-in?
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macOS Sonoma: Is QuickLook triggered on terminal via `qlmanage` broken for videos?

I'm getting an exception when I want to trigger QuickLook from terminal.app with qlmanage -p example.mov Testing Quick Look preview with files: /.../example.mov *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException',…
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