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12 Responses to “Outlook 2011 for Mac”

1. Kyle Says:
   October 22nd, 2011 at 3:46 pm

   MacBook-Pro:~ kyle$ /Users/kyle/Downloads/FGOutlook2011.qlgenerator/Contents/MacOS/FGOutlook2011 ; exit;
   -bash: /Users/kyle/Downloads/FGOutlook2011.qlgenerator/Contents/MacOS/FGOutlook2011: cannot execute binary file
   logout
   [Process completed]

2. Francesco Germinara Says:
   October 28th, 2011 at 11:02 am

   Hi Kyle, you must copy Quicklook plugins in /Library/Quicklook folder.
   FGOutlook2011 is only running on 10.6 and 10.7 operating system.
   Thanks for the comments.
   Ciaoooo

3. Francesco Germinara Says:
   October 28th, 2011 at 11:04 am

   This is the output…

4. Francesco Germinara Says:
   October 28th, 2011 at 11:05 am

   this is a link to a sample image output “www.germinara.it/download/outlook2011quicklook.png”

5. Robert Says:
   November 23rd, 2011 at 12:03 am

   For me it only partially works so long as Outlook is not running (i.e. header displayed but not body). When Outlook is running it goes back to get icon view (as if the plugin wasn’t installed).

6. 95wolf Says:
   November 24th, 2011 at 2:37 am

   Same problem as @Robert

7. Sandro Says:
   November 26th, 2011 at 1:52 pm

   I have exactly the same problem mentioned above by Robert and 95wolf (I am running Lion on a MacBook Pro)

8. hman Says:
   December 3rd, 2011 at 5:28 pm

   Same problem; only partial view when OL not running; icon view when OL is running. Snow Leopard on a macbook pro.

9. Francesco Germnara Says:
   December 13th, 2011 at 11:05 pm

   Hello all, you are right, on Lion when Outlook is Open the plugin not work. this it’s due to new Apple sandbox profile that forbit quicklook plugin to send command to other applications.
   I modified the sandbox profile but it’s a trick, you can see the solution here (italian language only )http://forum.tevac.com/topic/78875-quicklook-plugin-per-microsoft-outlook-2011

   if you are interested on it I try to translate in english.
   Ciao

10. Stephan Says:
    February 9th, 2012 at 2:12 am

    Hi – translation of your sandbox trick would be highly appreciated! Thanks a lot, great plugin!

11. rockstream Says:
    March 22nd, 2012 at 8:09 am

    I used Google translate to look at the sandbox trick and was able to make it work. Bottom line is that you have to add a sandbox rule to quicklook. The quicklook sandbox rules are in /usr/share/sandbox/quicklookd.sb. WARNING: The sandbox rule file is described by Apple as a “private interface” that is not user editable and subject to be overwritten at any time, so use your own judgement.

    The way I did it (using nano text editor) was as follows:

    cp /usr/share/sandbox/quicklookd.sb /usr/share/sandbox/quicklookd.sb.old
    sudo nano /usr/share/sandbox/quicklookd.sb

    This opens up a nano editor. Right after the line:

    (allow process-exec)

    I added the following:

    (allow AppleEvent-send
    (AppleEvent-destination “com.microsoft.outlook”))

    Then saved the file (^X in nano).

    Then logout and relog in and the quicklook works as expected with Outlook running.

    Apparently this quicklook essentially asks outlook to render the view, but the new sandbox does not permit the quicklook to interrogate outlook. The sandbox rule explicitly allows that communication. Of course, by doing this you are trusting taht Francesco’s code does not do something else nefarious with your Outlook.

12. Roger Says:
    December 20th, 2012 at 10:23 am

    Thank you very much for developing this plug-in! It works great and fills a big gap.

    I found the white-on-black difficult to read. Fortunately the color scheme is controlled by a HTML file which can be edited (but only as root). In the file /Library/QuickLook/FGOutlook2011.qlgenerator/Contents/Resources I just removed the background-color: and color: lines, and it now renders as a nice black-on-white with gray field labels. Thank you for implementing it in a way which enables this customization!

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