From the course: macOS Sonoma Essential Training
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Get info and preview files with Quick Look - macOS Tutorial
From the course: macOS Sonoma Essential Training
Get info and preview files with Quick Look
- [Instructor] As you browse your files and folders, there are previews and important information that you can get about your files without even opening them. Here in my Documents folder I'm going to go into this Client Projects folder, and into this folder called No Obstacles, and I have a bunch of files here. Now, I could double click on a file to open it but I want to save that for the video where we talk about launching applications. For now, I want to focus on what information we can get without even opening a file. First, there are lots of different file types. Some here are documents, some are spreadsheets, some are pictures, and so on. Unless you've changed some settings you will probably see that each file ends with a period followed by three or four letters. That's called the extension. And the extension identifies what type of file this is. Now I know that a .docx file is a Microsoft Word file. I know a .jpg…
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Browse through folders4m 55s
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Understand essential folder structure, including the Home Folder5m 8s
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Use folder shortcuts3m 56s
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Create folders and rename files and folders2m 29s
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Copy and move files or folders5m 5s
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Delete files and folders2m 56s
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Get info and preview files with Quick Look4m 12s
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Search for files using Spotlight4m 12s
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Zip and unzip archive files2m 30s
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Connect external drives3m 54s
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