Aug 27, '04 10:03:00AM • Contributed by: sveinbjornt
This can be very annoying if you're copying a lengthy video or audio file and want to view its contents prior to completion of the copy. The way around this is to use the command line to open the file. It's really quite simple. Open your Terminal application and type the following:
open /path/to/file
Of course, you replace /path/to/file with the path to the file being copied. You might have to use the full path to open, too -- /usr/bin/open, but it should be set up to work without it. Interestingly enough, this will open the file in the default application without objections from OS X.
[robg adds: I'm not a big fan of opening files while they're being modified; it just seems like an invitation to disaster. If you wish to do so, however, this trick should work.]
