How to email a file with Google Quick Search Box
Several readers have posted in the comments of an earlier post, asking how to email a file using Google’s Quick Search Box (QSB) utility.
It was much easier to know to do this in Quicksilver using a trigger.
In QSB it’s not as obvious, but it’s easy.
First you need to have QSB itself loaded and Martin Kühl’s Services plugin (see earlier Hawk Wings post).
Select the file that you want to email in Finder or on your Desktop or wherever.
Activate QSB. Type Command-G (⌘-G) to “get current selection”:
Type “email” into the dialog:
Hit the tab key to advance to the next screen:
Hit the Enter key to select “Perform Service” and — violà — a new email appears the file attached:
What could be simpler? QSB is not in Quicksilver’s league yet, but I have high hopes.
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Tags: Apple Mail, apple mail tips, google quick search box, mail.app, QSB, quicksilver
November 11th, 2009 at 1:22 am
Not sure what I’m doing wrong, but I can’t get this to work. I tried to get the services plugin working after your first post on the subject, and again today. No effect either time. Copied the Services.hgs file to ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Quick Search Box/PlugIns and relaunched QSB, but as far as I can tell, QSB is no different.
In any case, with Snow Leopard, it is much easier and quicker to simply set up a keyboard shortcut for the existing New Email with Attachment service (in the Keyboard Shortcuts preference pane under Services>Messaging). Just select the file, invoke the keyboard shortcut and voila: same result as the multi-keystroke QSB solution above.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
This isn’t working for me either, though I know that the services plugin does *something* because it asks me for access at the beginning of QSB.
I can’t, however, get the “email” command to do anything at all after the file is selected and CMD-G’d.
is there something I have to activate first in the QSB settings, or some script I have to throw in somewhere?
Cheers…
November 11th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
I’m on 10.5.8 btw…
November 15th, 2009 at 4:10 am
Nope, not working for me either. The Service GQSB plug-in is installed.
December 4th, 2009 at 6:51 am
I’m with you fellas – don’t work for me either. I’m on 10.6.2
December 18th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
I was not able to invoke the New Email with Attachment service via typing ‘email’ on 10.6.2. Maybe, there is some step or necessary component missed in the description?
May 22nd, 2010 at 7:59 am
I’m not able to invoke the mail service either. Would be great if someone could confirm that it is not working with snow leopard? I don’t know what i do wrong but typing email doesn’t do a thing…