Link to other drives and partitions in Favorites

Oct 10, '02 08:31:38AM

Contributed by: JohnnyMnemonic

I have my hard drive partitioned into a few different logical drives, and I find this the most troublesome when I use the Open/Save dialog box, as I often want to save a file in a different partition than the one that is opened by default. The dialog offers a shortcut to some items via the creation of Favorites, but the "Computer" level isn't normally selectable, making it more difficult to add to the "Favorites" list. Well, here's a workaround.

Navigate to /Volumes using the Go -> Go To Folder Finder menu. In the dialog that opens, type "/Volumes", and then make sure the new window is set to column view. Although /Volumes is usually invisible, it is now temporarily selectable. Make an alias of the /Volumes folder, and move it to ~/Library/Favorites.

The next time you open an Open/Save dialog, you should be able to select "Volumes" from the Favorites list, and see all of the mounted partitions, mounted media, and server volumes available, without having to scroll to the left.

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