Hi Ronni, The thing is quicklook has no problem seeing all my .csv files which were downloaded before "something' changed when I re-installed everything in October.
So my Commsec .csv files downloaded previous to the problem appearing show just fine in quicklook ie file type 1) in my original post: - Get info shows "kind" as "text" and "open with" as "Microsoft Excel" - Get info icon is an Excel icon But since the re-install and my telling finder to open all .csv with Excel (I'm not sure of the chicken & egg effect here) my Commsec .csv files download differently - ie file type 2) in my original post: - Get info shows "kind" as "Microsoft Excel Document" and "open with" as "Microsoft Excel" - Get info icon is a blank page icon So my problem is not getting quicklook to preview .csv files (comma-separated values) - which after all are basically just (delimited) text files - as long as the file "kind" is "text" both quicklook and the get info preview pane can handle the .csv file just fine. The problem is that now the .csv files are downloading with the file "kind" as "Microsoft Excel Document" Excel itself doesn't care and opens up both types (as a microsoft application it possibly only works on the .csv extension?) and, in fact, is the default application set to "open with" for both file types. Quicklook (and the get info preview pane) however must expect a "Microsoft Excel Document" to have a certain format - and presumably deal with it accordingly (so they display real .xls excel files just fine) - so, presumably, since the .csv files don't meet their expectations they just show a generic "blank page" document preview. In other words, the way I see it, the problem is not trying to work out how to get quicklook to view .csv files - it does that just fine as long as it knows it is a text file - the problem is how to get the .csv files to download as "text" files rather than "Microsoft Excel Document" files. For the files that are already downloaded, I expect that I can eventually track down some terminal script to change the file "kind" - in the meantime I have no problems opening the files so I can live without the quicklook preview. What I am really trying to find out here is how to get my original download parameters back so that the .csv files just normally download as file "kind" = "text" - which is how it was all working until last month! The problem is that during the download process, I don't know how, when or by what the file "kind" of the downloaded file is set so I don't really know where to look for any preferences which have been changed to cause this. Anybody got any ideas on this one? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 23/11/08 10:46 AM, Ronda Brown at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 22/11/2008, at 6:15 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: >> >> Downloading a new .csv file gives me a file set to open >> automatically with >> Excel (which is what I want) but with a file "kind" of "Microsoft >> Excel >> Document" rather than "text" - which gives me the problem of no >> preview in >> either quicklook or the get info preview - which is, obviously, not >> what I >> want! >> >> Any ideas on what I need to change/reset here? > > Hi Neil, > > Quicklook needs extra plugins to view certain files. > I have been looking for a .csv Quicklook Plugin for my Commsec > download files for months, have not been able to find on yet! > We might have to program our own ..... > > <http://www.quicklookplugins.com/> > <http://www.qlplugins.com/> > <http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/218/quick-look-plugins-for-leopard> > > Apple's Developer Documents: Introduction to Quick Look Programming > Guide > <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/Quicklook_ > Programming_Guide/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP > 40005020-CH1-DontLinkElementID_14 >> > > Cheers, > Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
