Quick Look Suspicious Packages

As I've noted before, I'm a huge fan of Quick Look and I eagerly follow the third-party plugins released by developers. A new one came along recently that's worth a look, especially for the security-conscious out there. Suspicious Package will let you use Quick Look to examine the contents of standard installer packages before you install them. You can navigate folder structure and have a look at what it contains with one click.

Of course you can do this manually by right-clicking in the Finder and choosing "Show Package Contents," but this makes it that much easier to do a quick check. Unfortunately, it does not work yet on 'mpkg' meta-packages. Suspicious Package is a free download from Mother Ruin Software.

Update: As a commenter below notes, "Show Package Contents" only shows the contents, not where they will install.

[via QuickLook Plugins List]

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Source: http://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/

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As I've noted before, I'm a huge fan of Quick Look and I eagerly follow the third-party plugins released by developers. A new one came...

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Kevin Ballard

I hope you know that pressing âŒ˜I in the Installer will show you exactly where it's going to install files (in other words, it shows the exact same thing this QL plugin does).

January 30 2008 at 12:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joshua Ochs

"Of course you can do this manually by right-clicking in the Finder and choosing "Show Package Contents" "

No, you cannot. That will show you the files that make up a package installer, but will NOT show you what files it installs - these are inside an archive inside the package.

Once this takes care of mpkg files, I may not need Pacifist anymore. :)

January 30 2008 at 9:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Vineet

Since you're a big fan of Quick Look you might know why Quick Look fails to recognize some ppt or pptx files. There is no identifiable reason for why it can recognize some and not others. I already know that Office 2008 bugs are still being worked out, but Quick Look's not that awesome with older ppt files either.

January 30 2008 at 9:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply