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Quick Look allows Finder and various other apps to preview files quickly.

The feature first appeared in in Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).

To see it in use: in Finder, select a file and press the space bar – or choose Quick Look from the File menu. It has a quicklookd - background process or daemon that generates and catalogs files to store thumbnails so the system responds rapidly to requests to quickly look at files.

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Is there an .ogg plugin for quicklook?

Is there one of these? I could not find one with a basic search on google. If not, is it possible to make it look and behave exactly like the default audio quicklook in objective-C?
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How do I change the speed of Quick Look Slideshow?

I use Quick Look to go through photos quickly, and I thought the slideshow feature could come in handy if I can change the duration of each photos shown. https://superuser.com/questions/175509/can-i-change-the-speed-of-slideshows-in-os-x I tried…
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QuickLook stopped working

What might cause quicklook to 'freeze', as it were. quicklook has gone south to some degree, some files are QL-able, other not, and we're speaking of the apple plug-in type (pdfs, txt, jpg, etc.) Even whilst running the Topher 'fix', terminal hangs…
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High Sierra security policy breaking quicklook?

Quicklook was not working (i.e. the visual icon preview for application files in the finder). First I read man qlmanage and tried what is suggested there. Following that, output from qlmanage -t ~/Documents/SKETCH/960.sketch is below. High Sierra…
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View .mkv in quicklook

Is there any plugin (or other way), to add support for mkv files in quicklook? In my searches, the way I found of doing it involves installing perian, which I’d really prefer not to do for a number of reasons, one of them being that it’s no longer…
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How can I recalibrate quick look window?

I have this issue where quick look window is away from its default position I know I can drag it back, but is there a way to just resume its default position? Thank you in advance!
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How to change part of file Quick Look previews?

For specific files I would like Quick Look to preview the end of the document, rather than its front. In this case I am working with CSVs and want the preview to show the most recent additions. (I’m aware the previews are cached and maybe not fully…
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Is there a way to make QuickLook display a hex dump preview of files for which no other preview is defined?

This question has two parts, I suppose. Is there a way to assign a default case to QuickLook (if no other preview applies, use this one) and is there a good hex-dump QuickLook preview?
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Yosemite: Corrupt quick look images

Ever since my transition to 10.10.5 Yosemite, quick look keeps corrupting the preview images every now and then. Sometimes is persists until reboot, other times it goes away after a while. The image files themselves are fine and open and display in…
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Launch quicklook from the command line in full screen mode

Is it possible to launch quicklook from the command line in full screen? qlmanage does not seem to have any option for that.
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Quicklook word Notebook layout broken

Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,4 System Version: macOS 10.13.3 (17D102) Microsoft. Word for Mac 2011 Version 14.7.7 (170905) Latest Installed Update: 14.7.7 Here's the issue. I can see a quicklook for normal word files, but if I try to see them in…
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Is there an app for OS X that can do something like Google's similar image search using images local drives as the database to serch in?

Reading about this a little it seems the compute power required is rather intense, but this would be a very useful app for finding old image files, even from their quicklook previews in the case of Adobe files like INDD, AI, PS.
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