Information Technology Reference
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Preferences. Make sure the General tab is selected, and check Connected
Servers, under the Show These Items on the Desktop heading.
2.
Connect to the shared folder if you're not already connected (usually you
can do this by clicking the shared computer's icon in the side pane of the
Finder window, under the Shared heading, but see
Tip 309,
Connect to
Stubborn Shared Folders or Servers
, on page 324
if you can't). In the login
dialog box, be sure to put a check next to the option for remembering the
password in the keychain.
3.
Open System Preferences (Apple menu→System Preferences), and select
the Users & Groups icon. Unlock System Preferences if necessary by
clicking the padlock icon; then make sure your account is selected on the
left of the screen. Click the Login Items tab on the right.
4.
Then simply click and drag the desktop icon for the server to the list of
login items. Note that there's no need to put a check next to the new entry
in the list—that's used to force login items to start minimized and isn't
relevant here.
And that's it! If you want to hide desktop icons showing network connections,
you can repeat the previous step that activated the display of server icons on
the desktop, but this time remove the check next to Connected Servers.
Note that it might take a few seconds after the desktop appears when you
boot before the Finder window pops up showing the shared computer.
If in the future you want to stop connecting to the server at start-up, just
repeat the steps and remove the server entry from the list of login items for
your user account by selecting it and clicking the minus button to the bottom
left of the list.
Tip 391
Invert a Selection of Files
Let's say you've just downloaded 100 images from your digital camera. You
want to copy all but three of them to another folder. How would you select
just the 97 you want to copy?
Finder features a neat little trick to let you do just that quickly and easily.
However, it works best on the desktop or in Icon view within Finder.
