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Create a permanent sidebar entry for networked folders
This hint didn't work for me for some reason - the aliases would disapear as soon as I removed by drive (even though they resided on my internal disk). The workaround I found is to make a simple applescript that can be launched from the sidebar. The script will try to open a given location in the current finder window (i.e. on a removable drive) if it cannot than it will perform some alternative task (such as opening a local copy of the folder in my case). Here is the script to customize
-- Script to open a location in the current finder window, with an optional second choice if the first location fails. You can set the desired location to be on a removable volume, and then put the script into the sidebar as a means to access files on a removable volume from the sidebar. set primary_item to POSIX file "/Volumes/My Flash Drive/Documents" set secondary_item to POSIX file "/Users/johndoe/Documents/" tell application "Finder" try set folder of front window to primary_item on error display dialog "The location could not be found, open " & secondary_item & " instead?" set folder of front window to secondary_item end try end tell
Create a permanent sidebar entry for networked folders
Note that this only works from the finder, not the open/save dialog boxes. |
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