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Doing Save As from Mac Office to Network Share
I have Office 2008 for the Mac. Our servers are all Windows servers. I have alias icons set up on my desktop for some spreadsheet files that live on these servers. If I click on the icon, Excel opens and I can edit the document and save it back to the same spot. However, if I want to do a Save As my network folder is not an available item in the list and I don't see any way to browse to it. Is there a way to do this?
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cunyjschool, although I am not adverse to downloading and using a third party app, I do like to use the native features of the OS when possible. I did as you suggested and was able to get the network drives in as something that shows up in a Save As browse Window. It would have been nice if within the browse window I could have navigated through what lives there like I can in Windows, but apparenly that doesn't exist. The bigger issue is when I reboot, the items I placed in the devices category are now gone. Is there no way to make them stay...like Windows' Reconnect at login option?
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strung, tried the product you suggested and it's really nice. But, I still seem to have the same issue. When I reboot, the network drives/shares disappear. I even dropped them in Default Folder X's favorites box, where they still appear, but after a reboot, the app will not bring them up as a part of anything I can browse to. I've opened a ticket with the company.
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Believe that a lot of the problem is a limitation of OS X which the third party app will solve. But, to get the network drives to remount appropriately and come back when I reboot,, I think it's essential to put alias's to them in the Login Items area.
Double click on your network drive in finder.
Click on your computer name (don't see your computer name? Finder->Preferences->Side Bar & make sure computer is checked off)
Drag the network drive to the bottom of the list on the sidebar under the devices category.
That will allow you to save files to your network DRIVE from within applications.
Alternately, if you want to access a specific FOLDER on your network drive, then drag that folder in the same window to the places category on the sidebar, and it will then show up on save/open application windows.
This way, you don't have to download anything, and can just use the built-in features of Mac OS X.