Quick Look Folder and Zip plugins

Quick Look is a beautiful thing, and in my view practically itself worth the cost of admission to Leopard. Unfortunately, the more you get used to it, the more annoying it is when you get to a file format that Quick Look doesn't support. Fortunately, Apple was smart enough to design Quick Look with an open architecture that allows developers to write their own plugins and support more file formats, which Japanese developer Taiyo used to write two excellent plugins.

The first addresses a serious annoyance with the default Quick Look implementation on folders. If you invoke Quick Look with a folder selected in the Finder you'll get...a picture of the folder icon. Frankly, that's pretty stupid. Taiyo's Folder Quick Look Plugin fixes this by displaying the folder's contents, which is how it should have been done in the first place. Likewise, Taiyo's Zip Quick Look Plugin displays the contents of zip files.

I'm sure we'll be seeing more and more of these expansions of Quick Look in the days ahead, which will make this quintessential Leopard feature that much more useful. Both the Folder Quick Look Plugin and the Zip Quick Look Plugin are free downloads. Place them in your /Library/QuickLook/ or ~/Library/QuickLook/ folders and they should work immediately.

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jonnymac

I actually 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!

December 02 2007 at 8:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Makaio

I'm putting together a site to keep track of all the known Quick Look plugins at http://www.qlplugins.com. There are only a dozen or so plugins out there right now, but I have a feeling that quite a few will eventually be released. I've also got a few troubleshooting tips on there for getting them to load.

November 30 2007 at 2:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eric Madrid

This is awesome, but now I can't see the size of the folder I'm 'quicklooking'. Does anyone have a solution for this?

I used 'quicklook' for that instead of 'Info' / command + i.

November 28 2007 at 1:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Makaio

I've looked through the plugin as distributed and unfortunately that would be a feature that only the developer would be able to add.

November 30 2007 at 2:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

C-Jo

I'm loving the .zip plug-in, but the same for .rar would be much more useful.

November 27 2007 at 11:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kraftmatic

Inge, make sure that you are dropping the plugin, not the folder, into the QuickLook folder.

November 27 2007 at 8:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Karl Maria

Nevermind. Working now. ;-)

November 27 2007 at 6:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Karl Maria

Not working for me either. Tried both options for placement, relaunched finder, and all I see is the folder icon when I hit the space bar. any thoughts?

November 27 2007 at 4:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

LuminousNerd.com

Hows about a SWF previewer for Quick Look? Would make my life so much easier

November 27 2007 at 3:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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chuck

I'm really hoping for a generator for SWF files..... I'm guessing i'm not the only one (right?), but for me it would be AWESOME!!

Any ideas if there's one out there?

December 05 2007 at 2:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Inge

nevermind, it works now :)

November 27 2007 at 3:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Inge

I can't get these plugins to work. I've followed the instructions but nothing happens :S

November 27 2007 at 3:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply