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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
