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I'm a beginner when it comes to macOS, I did have a MacBook Air M1 briefly, and I bought a Mac Mini M4 at the weekend.

I've been having an issue with my NAS not being in Finder/Locations if I turn the Mac Mini off so have to go through connect to server again. To try and get round this I added each shared folder on my NAS to the Open at Login section of Settings and whilst this has solved the issue, if I reboot my Mac Mini all the different share folder windows open up on the screen. Not the biggest issue ever as I just close them all but is there a way to stop those windows opening on boot up?

Having been a Windows user since 3.1, earliest I can remember having, there's quite a lot to get to grips with with macOS.

Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
 
Automounter is a good but you can do it within MacOS; save credentials to keychain then add the mounted drives to 'Login Items' - Settings > General > Login Items, add mounted drive to 'Open at Login'.
Apple does need to make reconnection a lot simpler given this feature has existed in other OS's for decades.
 
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visibleman said:
Automounter is a good but you can do it within MacOS; save credentials to keychain then add the mounted drives to 'Login Items' - Settings > General > Login Items, add mounted drive to 'Open at Login'.
Apple does need to make reconnection a lot simpler given this feature has existed in other OS's for decades.
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Mine sometimes just disappears randomly. With Automounter it's just always available
 
vail3r said:
Mine sometimes just disappears randomly. With Automounter it's just always available
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Can't say i've seen that but it's MacOS so weird stuff happens sometimes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But that's the biggest advantage with Automounter, it's daemon checks regularly checks mounts and reconnects if need be. Arguably though, you could do similar with automator/bash script and just schedule it with a CRON job.
 
visibleman said:
Automounter is a good but you can do it within MacOS; save credentials to keychain then add the mounted drives to 'Login Items' - Settings > General > Login Items, add mounted drive to 'Open at Login'.
Apple does need to make reconnection a lot simpler given this feature has existed in other OS's for decades.
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And then when they manage to unmount themselves (which invariably happens), they stay unmounted. It's just rubbish! Automounter keeps them mounted and if they fall off, they get remounted.

I have conditions set in automounter as well so that the mount is dependant on being able to ping the NAS.
 
Feek said:
And then when they manage to unmount themselves (which invariably happens), they stay unmounted. It's just rubbish! Automounter keeps them mounted and if they fall off, they get remounted.

I have conditions set in automounter as well so that the mount is dependant on being able to ping the NAS.
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Not saying it isn't a good app, just offering an alternative. And if you need periodic checks and reconnections then a bash script and cron would offer similar if someone didn't want to pay the £10/11.

Still, mount reconnections (as well as VPN reconnections) should be part of MacOS and i've never understood why it isn't; has to be one of my biggest gripes with MacOS.
 
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Noticed I'm getting calls to my MacBook, today I had the FaceTime icon pop up in top right corner taskbar, but the strange thing is there is nowhere to answer the call, and the call isn't coming through on my iPhone, I check FaceTime history on MacBook and history on iPhone and no missed calls?

Weird, happened about 3 times in the past week, maybe a bug?
 
Cromulent said:
I didn't know about this!

www.macrumors.com

Install Mac Apps on External Storage in macOS Sequoia

If you're running out of space on your Mac's internal drive, macOS Sequoia 15.1 includes a handy new feature that lets you install large apps...
www.macrumors.com www.macrumors.com

Really useful.
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It can be handy but, it doesn't necessarily mean the whole app and its data resides on the external drive as you can still end up with a lot of preference/temp/cache type data residing on the system drive - XCode is a good example of this.
Some docks can also be an issue if you use it so it's better if the drive is directly connected to the Mac.

Edit - You can obviously move apps manually to external drives but this can result in symlinking rather than the app actually being moved.
 
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So here's a question - with Tim Apple announcing that they're going to be slowing down and staggering the release cadence of hardware products, do you think that means we could be seeing a longer gap between OS updates?
 
eldergeek said:
So here's a question - with Tim Apple announcing that they're going to be slowing down and staggering the release cadence of hardware products, do you think that means we could be seeing a longer gap between OS updates?
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They'll need to keep iOS and macOS in sync as they won't stop selling iPhones every year. Maybe the hardware will come slower but macOS will keep getting updated. At least that is how I guess it'll go.
 
Cromulent said:
They'll need to keep iOS and macOS in sync as they won't stop selling iPhones every year. Maybe the hardware will come slower but macOS will keep getting updated. At least that is how I guess it'll go.
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Yup, they still need to bring in the punters and yearly releases whilst dropping old device support is still a good reason to; i would be surprised if they would do the same with OS's and go back to the days when they would release OS's when they were ready.

Although i do wonder how much it hurt hardware sales with the missed deadlines recent OS releases have had.
 
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