I have seen some people talking about a new feature in Snow Leopard, where hovering over MP3s or PDFs allowed you to preview the file. I am not seeing this feature on my Snow Leopard machine. How do you enable it?
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Snow Leopard Finder File Preview
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You need to be in icon view (command - 1). Then a little play icon will appear for media, and arrows will appear for PDF's. Use the slider on the bottom left to get a better view.
WAIT: have you turned on icon previews?
You can hover without clicking...have you restarted?
You can hover without clicking...have you restarted?
You still have to click it for it to play. You can not simply hover over a file and have it play.
That opens quicklook.....
I have not enabled this, I don't know how. And I had this problem prior to the last restart.
Ah, well yeah, but I got hung on the word 'highlight', which I took as selecting the file.
View -> Show View Options (or command - J) and make sure that 'Show Icon Previews' is checked.
Can you give us a screenshot?
Did you try to make the icon a little bit bigger? If the little circle play icon doesn't fit, it won't appear. Looks like 64x64 is the minimum icon size.
Lol @ that song. Brings back memories...
Lol @ that song. Brings back memories...
Lol, I selected that song, because everything else was Apple Lossless not MP3. I tried that, and it didn't work, so I relaunched Finder, then tried it again, and now it worked. Thank you.
You're welcome. That's a little strange how you needed to kill the Finder, but as least it's fixed now.