Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'Getting to external volumes' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
Getting to external volumes
Authored by: cyberzine on Feb 14, '02 12:35:45AM

I'm a bit confused, if you're having trouble getting in the open/save dialog box to parts of your drives, simply add those key folders by clicking "add to favorites."

Then when you go to open or save, just select them under the "from" where they are listed under the "favorites" tab.

This trick of using aliases on the hard drive, btw, can also be accomplished with the unix "ln" command. Let's say you want to have the "movies" folder in your user directory show up as the "movie" folder on a drive called Big.

go to terminal and do "cd Users/username" then do "mv movies oldmovies" which renames your movies folder "old movies." Then while still in the user folder do "ln -s /Volumes/Big/Movies Movies" and you'll make an alias.

Enjoy.



[ Reply to This | # ]
ln != alias
Authored by: geoffsaulnier on Feb 14, '02 06:54:28AM

ln can break if you move the file you are linking to. Making an alias, however, saves the info in the Desktop DB and should be able to adjust if you move the file you have made an alias of, or if you move the alias, or both!

Cheers,
Geoff.



[ Reply to This | # ]
Getting to external volumes
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Feb 14, '02 08:14:48PM

Actually the thing I have a problem with is that within the file dialog there is no way to get to "your computer" ... just the Home directory. From Home I have to keep pressing the left arrow to get to the "computer" to see all the mounted volumes. I have added each partition and drive to Favorites, but that doesn't help when you have a removable disk inserted.
Of course neither do having aliases. When I posted my comment I forgot I have each drive in Favorites and that you still cant always get to removable disks (depends on the program you are in). Most of the time it works, but you still cant get there in one click.



[ Reply to This | # ]
Getting to external volumes
Authored by: Victor on Feb 15, '02 11:53:52AM

In open/save dialogs you can press Cmd-Option+C to get to "My Computer". Not sure if it works in Cocoa apps only, but I guess not. Cmd-Option+H, F (Home and Favorites) too, like in the Finder. There's all sorts of (key) shortcuts (Tab, Cmd-arrow etc.), that make navigation easier.

Hope this helps,
Victor.



[ Reply to This | # ]
Getting to external volumes
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Feb 15, '02 08:03:57PM

Very cool tip! Also of course I should have said that typing "/Volumes" in the Goto: line works as well. I just miss the drive pulldown we had in OS 9.



[ Reply to This | # ]