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Hi,

I'm a huge fan of the rename-prompt posted on the site, but would really like to accompany the prompt with a quicklook, to make renaming easier, as well as closing the quicklook afterwards. I have achieved opening on PDF and images, but most formats should also work?

The problem seems to occur at both scripts below, where I have used the shell script from this page. The kill-script is from a macworld-forum and really quite random. Open-shell is the first script and kill-script comes right after the renaming-one.

/bin/bash

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qlmanage -p "$1" >& /dev/null &

Applescript:

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set getPID to (do shell script "ps -A | grep qlmanage") as string
set {TID, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, space}
set thePID to text item 1 of getPID
set text item delimiters to {""}
do shell script "kill -9 " & thePID

Ideally I just want to avoid the hassle of having multiple quicklooks appear on multiple renames, but it seems like the process needs to be killed?

Thanks a lot, cheers.

You might want to look into an AppleScript way of doing it. Killing the process does seem heavy handed but I don't have any experience with trying to manipulate quicklook from AS. Might want to search around the net as there might be something out there for it.