Hidden Snow Leopard Tricks 1

This is my favourite hidden feature in Snow Leopard. When enabled, using Quick Look (hit the space bar) on a folder will show you a preview of the folder's contents inside a translucent folder icon. The previews of the files inside the folder also cycle through so you can see all of them. Just use the following command:

defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableXRayFolders 1

You will need to restart the Finder, either by typing killall Finder into the Terminal or by Control-Option-clicking on the Finder in the Dock and choosing Relaunch.

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• Mac
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• Hidden
• Snow
• Leopard
• Tricks
• Terminal
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[MrIgetdatcake]

1:04 how do you do that? (n00b question)

[pp2devane]

how do you stop it from doing that? My iMac came with this feature and I'd prefer the normal way.

Thanks

[alborzheydaryan]

my macbook pro came with this feature.

i think the new updates pushed that feature out of development only mode.

[ticklishpenguin]

awesome

[canadianman333]

@sShaDOhsS thx

[sShaDOhsS]

@canadianman333 It edits the com.apple.finder document, where all options are stored and more. QLEnableXRayFolders was set on 0 (disable), this makes it 1 (enable).

[luddomatic]

nice :)

[canadianman333]

what does that line of "code" do? can you break it up and explain it in more detail? thanks

[macunicorn]

Ya its Xray folders its cool.