Wow. I fully expected it to be a bit difficult to get used to some things in a mac, but I figured that to do anything it would be easier. Perhaps not.
I store my music on a NAS drive so I don't have to fill up my macbook with a whole bunch of mp3's, and I have iTunes to manage it. For some reason when I sleep my computer it doesn't try to reconnect any drives I mount. Well, it's a mac so there must be a check box somewhere I can say "try and reconnect" like was on windows, what 95?. There are a couple of different posts with how you can create a script or install / buy and application to do this. Woah, I have to do what to reconnect to a shared drive? That's just nuts.
I might understand that if we're talking about linux, but this is a mac where everything is supposed to be automagical and wonderful. What happened? Where is this basic feature? Hopefully someone will be able to tell me.
Since my music is all managed on iTunes and iTunes couldn't see that since the last time it tried to start up, my whole library is got that little picture of the exclamation mark (!) so it won't try and play those songs. Unless there is another way that I don't know of (very likely), I'll have to go through and click on all the songs so that iTunes can "see" them again. Grrrrr.....
I'm enjoying my macbook for the most part, but I'm not apple fanboy. Time for another coffee.
On Windows iTunes, you can just re-add the whole folder, and iTunes sorts out what's new and what's not. I do this often with my music, because when I download my music from emusic, I don't like to go around and search for all the individual files/folder I just downloaded, so I just re-import my entire iTunes directory.
ReplyDeletei was looking for something to auto-mount my external hard drive every time i boot up and this helped...it's in accounts under login items. hope this helps (and is what you were looking for)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tuaw.com/2007/05/18/mac-101-launch-at-startup-the-login-items-tab/