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Jim Lahey

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Apr 8, 2014
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Hi. I have two NAS systems on my LAN serving four shared folders to my Mac, which in turn are then linked to my Plex libraries. Plex Server on the Mac cannot access the shared folders unless they are open in Finder, so for this reason I keep a window permanently open with four tabs (one for each shared NAS folder). I don't always leave the NAS units running and have each of them on a power schedule. My issue is that when the NAS units power down, the Finder tabs lose contact (obviously) but do not reconnect when the network resource becomes available again.

Is there a way to have the four Finder tabs automatically reconnect to their previous locations when the NAS units are powered back on? I'm aware that I can set the shared folders as login items but this doesn't achieve what I want. If it matters I have the Mac sleeping when the NAS are powered off. It would be nice to simply pull the Mac out of sleep after NAS power-up without having to dig into Finder and manually reconnect the network locations.

Any help welcomed. Thanks.
 
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