Oh, wow, that's really handy. thanks, Esther. Donna On Nov 3, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Esther wrote:
> > Hi Donna, > > You asked about using quick look vs. opening mail attachments: > >> What is the difference, i.e. what are the limitations of quick-Look? >> > > When you Quick Look a file, you're "playing it" instead of actually > opening it, so you can't, for example, make editing changes or control > navigation (except to stop/pause or start), but it's a great way to > quickly examine file contents with low overhead. Some other > consequences of using Quick Look (not just for mail) are: music files > that you Quick Look won't get added to iTunes, even if that's set as > the default app for opening these files, because you haven't opened > them. If they have been tagged, you'll also get the information about > Artist, Album, and Time. In a series of mail attachments you can > quickly preview content and move through to the next one when you've > read enough -- this is great if someone has sent you a bunch of PDF > files and you really only need one that you can identify easily from > the content. Or if a friend has sent you some music files and you're > trying to decide whether you want to save any of these, or whether > your friend just has really bad taste in music, quick looking the > attachments is easy to do. Of course, if the attached contents are > visual, you'll just hear these identified as "image" while Quick Look > displays them. You can Quick Look files that are in the Trash, which > is also really useful. > > Here's a post from the list archives that describes using Quick Look: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg48988.html > (Tip: Use Leopard's Quick Look to Preview Music and Many Other Kinds > of Files) > > If you read down the thread (press Control-N four times), you'll find > my response to erik's question on dealing with Voice Mail .wav > attachments, which apparently Quick Look can't handle as a mail > attachment. About two more posts down from that (Control-N twice) in > the thread is Søren's suggestion that using Quick Look to play music > automatically pauses it when you command-tab to switch to another > application and resumes when you switch back to the Quick Look window, > which is useful if someone calls you on skype. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > >> >> On Nov 3, 2009, at 5:29 AM, Scott Howell wrote: >> >>> >>> You can also save it under the file menu of Mail. You also can stop >>> interacting with the message, navigate to the left and you should >>> find >>> the Quick Look item and clicking on this should let you look at the >>> file. >>> On Nov 3, 2009, at 1:14 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Do a VO-shift-M. That should do the trick. You should have the >>>> option >>>> to open it if you're right on it, at least. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Nic >>>> Skype: Kvalme >>>> MSN Messenger: [email protected] >>>> AIM: cincinster >>>> yahoo Messenger: cin368 >>>> Facebook Profile >>>> My Twitter >>>> >>>> On Nov 3, 2009, at 1:54 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> How does one do this? Yet again, I've tried enter, VO-Space, >>>>> Command- >>>>> O, Command-L, interacting, not interacting, clicking the mouse, >>>>> and >>>>> nothing seems to open the file. The file in question is a word >>>>> file. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, and sorry for the dumb question. >>>>> Donna >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >>> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
