Hide macOS Finder quick action panel for common file types

disable-quick-actions.sh

#!/bin/bash

for key in "com\.apple\.application" "public\.font" "public\.folder" "public\.html" "com\.adobe\.pdf" "public\.audio" "public\.text" "public\.movie" "com\.apple\.alias-file" "public\.image" "public\.archive" "public\.item"; do
    plutil -replace PreviewPaneSettings.$key.showQuickActions -bool NO ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
done

Hi, I just found this and it's quite helpful. Sadly it only updates / inserts the showQUickActions bool only if the parent already exists in the plist file.

I wonder if there would be a way to also create the public.font key for example? I tried with insert but not much luck.

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Hi. You might want to check $man plutil, there is also -insert which should do the trick

I tried fiddling with that as mentioned before, but apparently the -insert only works if the parent exists. So it's inserting the public.font and then also inserting the showQUickActions. Which ended up too much work and I just looked for different files and did the change manually for the few files.

I just hoped that maybe a script like this could automate it for new installations in the future. Possibly with lookup / check if key exists / if not crate / if exists replace etc…

But that's just too much optimization for like 10 minutes of manual stuff 🙈.

Great to learn about anyways.