Hi Neil,
On 10/09/2009, at 5:45 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:
Hi Ronni,
Thanks for that feedback. I have just upgraded firefox to 3.5.2 and
OSX to
10.5.8 so I thought I'd check again (in case that had fixed
anything) but no
- I'm still getting kind:Microsoft Excel document and no quicklook
preview
until I change the type so that kind:Text.
I remember when I first raised this that you said:
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 .....
So I'm interested as to when it started working for you - is this
new with
SL or did you find another fix before the upgrade?
This has happened in Snow Leopard. I never found a fix in Leopard.
- also I'm interested
that your files have 'kind" = "CSV Document" - is this what changed
when it
started working for you or were they always showing this but quicklook
changed to now preview them OK?
Only started showing (ASAIK) as CSV Document in Snow Leopard and
displaying in Quicklook Preview correctly.
No need for the screenshots - I get the "icon with text" after I
change the
file type and then quicklook shows the csv text file - from what you
say
quicklook treats the "csv document" more like an excel file and
shows a
spreadsheet format - I really wouldn't mind either it seems that (at
least
in Leopard) quicklook just gets confused by a csv file with 'kind" =
"Microsoft Excel Document" and shows a blank preview.
Yes, Quicklook in SL treats the "CSV Document" as a Spreadsheet format
(which is what it is).
I'm pleased you don't require the screenshots ... The Portfolio is not
looking healthy ... a little better than has been, but still very much
in the Red ;-(
It's no big deal - as I said, I have my workaround - I'm just
curious as to
what has changed
In Snow Leopard a lot of things have changed / improved.
Cheers,
Ronni - who is almost getting blown away at my Ocean Home ... the surf
is massive!
on 10/9/09 3:13 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote:
On 10/09/2009, at 2:09 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:
NEW (RELATED) QUESTION:
Hello Neil,
Well, I never did find a way to change the download behaviour but
now, given
SL's different take on creator and type codes, I am wondering
whether the
problem/fix might change - so my question - to any SL users who
could check:
1) Does a downloaded .csv file still look the same in "get info"
ie:
- Get info shows "kind" as "Microsoft Excel Document" and "open
with" as
"Microsoft Excel"
No, my downloaded .csv shows in "Get Info" as "Kind" CSV Document
- Get info icon is a blank page icon
No, it has an icon with text
2) Does a downloaded.csv file still just show a blank page icon in
quicklook (and get info preview).
No, it shows as a spreadsheet (table format)
3) If the answer to 1) & 2) is yes, does changing the "kind" to
"text"
still solve the problem (ie restore the quicklook view).
No need to as the answers to ! & 2 are NO :-)
I'm just wondering how all this ties together!
If you would like Neil I can send you off list a couple of
screenshots
of the two windows.
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
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