2 Quick Questions on Leopard

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Could you elaborate a bit on what you mean by quick view feature?

I think that you will get what you want by hitting the space bar after clicking on the file, but I'm not sure.

 

None that I've heard of. It's tied into the Finder so any solution would probably have to replace the Finder as well...

 

He is referring to "Quick Look" which is built into Leopard. I haven't heard on any utilities providing this feature for Tiger, but you can do a Google Search for it.

As for item 2, is the network drive a NAS device or connected to another computer and shared over the network? In order to access this device, it must be mounted first. This is why the alias disappears after a reboot.

If he wants access to it in the Sidebar, first check the Finder Preferences and see if he has the appropriate options set in "Devices" and "Shared" in the Sidebar tab.

Then if the disk is connected to another computer, and that computer has file sharing enabled, it should show up in the Sidebar. He clicks that and should see his disk.

If this is a NAS device, how is he connecting to it?

Provide some more details on his setup as to what device and computers.