Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Enable Text Selection in Finder's Quicklook

Enable Text Selection in Finder's QuicklookOS X: Quicklook is an awesome feature that quickly previews files without opening them. Here's a Finder hack that makes Quicklook even more useful: When you hit the space bar on a text document or PDF, you can select and copy text from the preview.

This is one of many Finder tricks posted by Mac Tricks & Tips. To set it up on your Mac, open a Terminal window and type:

defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -boolean YES;
killall Finder

To disable it, enter:

defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -boolean NO;
killall Finder

That's it!

Hit up the link below to see the 21 other Finder hacks, including always showing remote disk drives and more.

22 Finder Hacks, Tricks and Changes | Mac Tricks & Tips

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/M8soT9Ek9fQ/enable-text-selection-in-finders-quicklook

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