Tip: Enhance QuickLook with Plugins
I’ve mentioned before that one of my favorite new features that was introduced with Leopard is QuickLook. This oft-forgotten feature allows you to preview files without ever having to open up an application, and it’s only a space bar click away.
Now, a team in Japan has released what appears to be the first external plug-ins for QuickLook, and they really add some awesome functionality to this already useful new tool. So in this article I will take you through the installation of a nifty Quicklook enhancement, that I really found helpful.
User XDD from .Mac has uploaded the Folder.qlgenerator QuickLook plug-in to his .Mac homepage as well as Zip.qlgenerator. To install, simply download this folder and uncompress it. With the folder uncompressed, you should see a couple of files inside, including a Readme, and the actual Folder.qlgenerator file.
Head over to your root ~/Library (the one when you click on your HDD, not the one in your home folder) and then find the folder entitled QuickLook. Now, simply drop the Folder.qlgenerator and Zip.qlgenerator into that folder.
Try and QuickLook a folder and you should see a new screen that shows the contents of that folder and not just the one large icon that QuickLook displays by default. If it doesn’t happen right away, either give it a minute, or try opening a Terminal window (located in /Applications/Utilities) and typing killall Finder. This relaunches the Finder application, and should restart QuickLook properly.
Once you have it working, you should see that there’s a significant amount of new info that is now available to be viewed through the standard QuickLook window.
And another shot.
I found Zip.qlgenerator is incredibly useful to see what is actually contained in a Zip file without having to uncompress it. You can just invoke QuickLook with a .zip file selected and it will show you a list of the files that are within it.
Keep in mind that this is still BETA software, so there are definitely some bugs, but personally this seems to be working fine. One thing that I’d definitely like to see implemented is better scrolling to see all of the folders (or other contents) of a folder, as well as the ability to click on something in the folder being QuickLooked and have the option to launch the app. Also, it would be really cool if QuickLook on external drives could be enabled somehow?
So yeah this is a bit of a hack and it’s really done at your own risk, but if you have any problems, it shouldn’t be a big deal to just trash the Folder.qlgenerator file and go back to the way it was.
Let’s hope that this is just the beginning for home brew QuickLook plug-ins and that there are many more to come!
There’s also one for eps files:
http://www.eternalstorms.at/utilities/epsqlplg
>Head over to your root ~/Library
DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Abba: what you have to do is open up a new finder window, and then click on “Macintosh HD” on the lefthand sidebar…..there, click on Library and then find the QuickLook folder and that’s where you drop the .qlgenerator files
The tilde (~) means home folder, and the absence thereof means root. You’ll want to omit the both of them, as neither makes any sense.
QuickLook works on my external drive..
works really well. according to the readme, this can go in /Library/Quicklook or ~/Library/Quicklook
The difference is this:
Moving the QuickLook plugin into /Library/QuickLook makes it available for every user on that machine.
Moving it to /Users/yourname/Library/QuickLook only makes it work for your user.
What really doesnt make sense with the post is saying “Head over to your root ~/Library” and then in the following text describing how to navigate to /Library..
How are Mac users supposed to learn how the filesystem works when authors of these articles dont seem to know themselves?!
I just started an attempt at cataloging all of the available QuickLook Plugins in one place:
http://www.quicklookplugins.com
If you have any additions, please use the contact form on the blog and we’ll get it added for you.
Thanks!
Well, that doesn’t work for me. I have a new iMac ALU, X 10.5.1
I’ve tried everything, including rebuilding DS files, reseting, disabling all custom icons. I moved that files to all Library/QuickLook folders (both root & user’s), double-clicked on those files too. So what’s I’m doing wrong??
btw, I tried qlmanage commands too in Terminal
Zip.qlgenerator is gone. It’s now Archive.qlgenerator, which lets you look at .zip, .tar, .gz, etc.
There’s another Quick Look list (german only):
http://www.mac-devedge.de/Software/Quick-Look-Plugins/index.php
I love the quick look app, but have lots of ppt presentations, and when you quick look on them , you have to scroll down the document, rather than use the arrows found on other files to flip through them.Any suggestions on how to change this.The default open on all the ppt files is keynote, but they are still listed as ppt.
thanks in advance
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