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Fast Finder help

Peek and Details

Look at a file without opening it. Use the Details sidebar or Quick Look.

Show the Details sidebar

  1. Select a file.
  2. Press Cmd+Shift+P. The Details sidebar opens on the right.
  3. Press Cmd+Shift+P again to close it.

Make it wider

  1. Press Cmd+Shift+E to switch the sidebar between normal and wide.

What it shows

  • On Mac: Markdown, plain text and source code (with line numbers), CSV and TSV tables, JSON as a tree that folds, pictures, the first page of a PDF, and HTML pages.
  • On Mac, the picture types are JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, WebP, HEIC and HEIF. A photo also shows a short summary of its EXIF data. A GPS position stays hidden until you ask for it.
  • On Mac, an HTML page is drawn as a page, with no scripts and no network. A Source button shows the text of the page.
  • On Windows: Markdown, plain text and source code, CSV and TSV tables, and JSON. Pictures, PDF and HTML pages are not drawn yet.
  • Tables are shown as tables.
  • A Markdown, text or JSON file over 1 MB gets no Peek. Peek shows only the start of a long CSV file.

Quick Look (Mac)

  1. Select a file.
  2. Press Space. Quick Look opens.
  3. Press Space or Esc to close it.

On Windows, Space opens and closes the Details sidebar. There is no Quick Look.

Get Info

Select an item and press Cmd+I.

Online-only cloud files

On a Mac, Peek never downloads an online-only file by accident. The Windows beta cannot tell which files are online-only. See Cloud files.