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BetterZip Quick Look Generator lets you view the contents of compressed archives through Leopard's Quick Look. Simply select an archive in the Finder, in Mail, or Spotlight and press the spacebar. You will immediately be presented with a neatly formatted table of the archive's contents that you can browse.
The currently supported archive formats are: ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary.
You can change various view options, set whether hidden files in the archive should be displayed or
The currently supported archive formats are: ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary.
You can change various view options, set whether hidden files in the archive should be displayed or
What's New
Version 1.2:
- Fixes a few problems with previous versions, e.g., the latest WebKit (i.e., Safari 5) led to the BetterZip QL generator printing the header over the archive contents. Nasty. Certain tar archives couldn't be viewed anymore and a few other smaller problems.
- I have also found a way to store your settings without editing a configuration file by hand, like it was necessary in previous versions. To achieve this, I have created a small program packaged with the QL generator, that's called from the QL panel itself. So, don't get nervous, if you click "Save as default" and Mac OS X asks, whether you really wish to start an external program. It will do this only once and all this little helper does is saving your settings to a preferences file (com.macitbetter.betterzip.quicklookgenerator.plist) in your preferences folder.
Version 1.2:
- Fixes a few problems with previous versions, e.g., the latest WebKit (i.e., Safari 5) led to the BetterZip QL generator printing the header over the archive contents. Nasty. Certain tar archives couldn't be viewed anymore and a few other smaller problems.
- I have also found a way to store your settings without editing a configuration file by hand, like it was necessary in previous more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| Downloads:14,321 |
| Version Downloads:5,896 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Free |
| Date:05 Oct 2010 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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BetterZip Quick Look Generator lets you view the contents of compressed archives through Leopard's Quick Look. Simply select an archive in the Finder, in Mail, or Spotlight and press the spacebar. You will immediately be presented with a neatly formatted table of the archive's contents that you can browse.
The currently supported archive formats are: ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary.
You can change various view options, set whether hidden files in the archive should be displayed or not, and whether you wish to look into file packages.
The currently supported archive formats are: ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary.
You can change various view options, set whether hidden files in the archive should be displayed or not, and whether you wish to look into file packages.
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Richtheone reviewed on 16 Oct 2011
Also, I really miss the ability to close and open folders hierarchically.
+398
https://github.com/farfanoide/BetterZ-QuickLook-plugin-theme-for-Lion
This plugin deserves much more than 1 1/2 stars. Do you know of any plugin that does anything close to this? I sure as heck don't. Be grateful for something, you could have nothing.
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GeoProf reviewed on 25 Sep 2011
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Istra reviewed on 18 Aug 2011
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Roro01 reviewed on 24 Feb 2011
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+398
The dev could have made this plugin only compatible with betterzip but allows even those who don't own betterzip to use it, and function fully.
I would definitely thank the developer with a donation or buy betterzip or at least an email of appreciation. No I am not affiliated with the dev, I just think we should help the dev keep making our computers handle archives easier, taking less time, and a lot less headaches. Good mac software at a good price.
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http://macitbetter.com/node/398
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Bruce_Y reviewed on 17 Sep 2008
Fabulously handy to see quickly what files are inside the zip (etc) without having to actually decompress the whole archive.
Apple should license this from developer! (with appropriate compensation)
. (Now if only Apple would provide similar quicklook into pkg files...)
One suggestion for BZQLG (minor): allow column width adjustment, if possible.
I had already been a registered user of BetterZip, but had been on Tiger/PPC so never had a chance till recently to even check this out.
IMO it's a must-have for any who work with lots of downloads or archiving data in zip format. Well, at least for major-geek-types (like moi) ;-)
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Jfields reviewed on 14 Dec 2007
+3
(The same thing goes for package contents.)
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Drking rated on 19 Jun 2011
+940
Misha rated on 05 Jan 2011
+16
Jolly_joker rated on 10 Dec 2010