Dear Gigi, I guess you should be able to leave the public folder on your desktop. Alternatively, could you put an alias to this folder permanently on your desktop?
Andrew > On 14 Dec 2014, at 14:27, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > > Hello guys > I don’t know if you guys can help me figure this out. I can’t figure out > which computer, or maybe both of them, is causing me grief here. > > My husband has a computer running under Windows Vista. I hav a Macbook Pro > under Yosemite. Sometimes when he is using the computer and I want to copy > files from our network, my computer refuses to show me the public folder. > Sometimes my computer will find it when I get to the Go Menu and arrow down > to the network choice. I can’t get it to work with command shift k. > > My husband’s has JAWS 13 installed on it because it used to be my computer. > If I had to, I could go in there and use JAWS to get the files, but that is > not real convenient. Can any of you suggest why sometimes I can find this > network and sometimes it finally shows up, and I still can’t figure out what > made it finally show up in Finder. > > Right now I have on my desktop a volume that Finder calls Public. If I leave > that on the desktop instead of ejecting it, will this make it easier to get > the network or will it slow my computer down something awful because it is > trying to get that volume all the time? I don’t need to get these files but > say once a month or so. Any suggestions? > > Gigi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
