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Quick Look is such an awesome feature of Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, making it really fun and easy to view files and folders from anywhere on your Mac. But what happens when you have a folder with multiple items and want to get a better idea of what’s inside? Well, you could always just open the folder in Finder, but there’s a cool modification you can make to get an even quicker view. 

You can get this working on your Mac in a few simple steps:

1. Quit/Relaunch Finder using the Force Quit menu
2. Open Terminal
3. Paste (or type) the following command: defaults write com.apple.Finder QLEnableXRayFolders 1
4. Relaunch Finder

The contents of the folder will now be shown when you use Quick Look. In true Apple elegance, the files will even fade and cycle through the contents.

Tip is from tuaw.com‘s John Burke

written by AppleMacGenius \\ tags: 10.6, Mac OX, Quick Look, Snow Leopard