I recently was given an old MacBook (Late 2007) running 10.4 from a family member. I'm using it basically as a backup for my studio computer. It's going to contain only the apps included in 10.7 and 1 additional NI audio product. My question is, my other mac and all I've ever worked on (and it's a few) have been able to use the space bar to preview a highlighted audio file in Finder. Is there a way to cut this off/on? I really like this feature and it saves me probably 30-60 minutes a day because I go through thousands of audio files a day.
MacOS – Using the space bar as a shortcut in finder to preview audio files
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Go to the Keyboard preference pane in System Preferences and choose the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. In the left column, choose Application Shortcuts like shown in the image below.
Click the plus button and add a keyboard shortcut entry for Finder for the "Show Path Bar" menu item. Since the title of the "Show Path Bar" menu item changes to "Hide Path Bar" once the path bar is shown, you might want to add a shortcut for that as well.
QLStephen displays files with no extension or with arbitrary extensions as plain text. You can install it by moving the qlgenerator bundle to ~/Library/QuickLook/ and running qlmanage -r.
If it doesn't display some file types, try adding their UTIs to CFBundleDocumentTypes:LSContentTypes in the Info.plist.
Best Answer
Looks like Quick View is only available for Mac OS X 10.5 and later.
Bottom line, download 10.5 and the spacebar Quick Look will work.
As a side note, if you're looking for other shortcuts that might be missing from OS 10.4, there's a shortcut creator (on steroids) that's free, and it's called BetterTouchTool. Go here to download it (http://www.bettertouchtool.net). Just remember you have to have 10.8 or later for it work.
You won't regret it.