TUAW Tips: Get a better view with Quick Look

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.

[via Mac OS X Hints]