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Mapped drives on MAC OS Sierra
My last post on here detailed a problem with favourites disappearing from the sidebar. I got several very detailed and helpful answers, the main gist of these being move away from the Apple version of Samba to a less buggy version.
Before I undertake this I thought I'd pose an alternative question, that being is there anything like mapped network drives on the MAC? This is what we are using the favourites for, to point at shared folders on a Windows 7 PC acting as a file server.
Before I undertake this I thought I'd pose an alternative question, that being is there anything like mapped network drives on the MAC? This is what we are using the favourites for, to point at shared folders on a Windows 7 PC acting as a file server.
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If it's in the dock or on the desktop, can you use the shortcut from an file-open box in, for example Word, to get to the shared folder?
No, but if its in the DOCK you can always get and click on that while in any app and click on it even when the Open dialog is open in your Application.
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Mount the Drive by entering the path and credentials then
a. Create an Alias for it and put that in the Desktop and Dock so that even when it is unmounted a quick click will usually remount it and it is easier to access in the Dock than on the desktop on smaller screens where the desktop is often hidden
b. Drag the drive onto my list of Login Items in the System Preferences : Users & Groups : Login Items section .. this makes OSX mount the volume when you login or reboot
In the past if the Volume has tendencies to "unmount" I have AppleScript which can run as an applet or a cron which periodically checks to see if the volume is mounted and if not it retries to mount it.