Enable See-Through QuickLook Folders

October 7, 2009 · 4 comments

Open Terminal and type in

defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableXRayFolders 1

Then enter

Killall Finder

to restart the Finder. You should now be able to quicklook any folder that has files and see it in the folder preview.

UPDATE: If you ever want to disable it this feature, quit the Finder, then repeat the above Terminal command, but change the 1 to a 0.

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cx7400 October 22, 2009 at 7:29 pm: How would you reverse this?
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Caleb (Author) November 2, 2009 at 12:29 pm: I updated the post. In short quit the Finder, then repeat the above Terminal command, but change the 1 to a 0. Thanks for the question, sorry for the delay!
Hampus February 18, 2010 at 6:22 pm: Works Great!