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Need help keeping NAS mounted after MacBook sleeps

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bluelightalarm

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Aug 26, 2011
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Hi I wonder if someone here would be willing to help please?

I got a MacBook Pro a few weeks ago, this is my first time ever using a Mac, I've always had Windows machines in the past. I'm loving it mostly but there are a few things that I just can't figure out, mainly how to keep my NAS mounted - it just doesn't want to stay for some reason!

I have Plex installed on my MacBook and the video files saved on a WD MyCloud drive. I managed to add the mount to my startup items so it auto mounts every time I restart but for some reason, several times a day it loses the connection and I have to manually connect again before I can watch anything using Plex and it's getting really annoying now.

I've googled for a solution and have found loads of pages mentioning to write a script to check if the drive is mounted and if not then mount it, but no matter how many times I try to do this I just can't get it to work for me - it's just all a bit too much for me to understand as I have literally zero experience or knowledge of this kind of thing!

Could someone please help me out?

Thanks
Jamie
 
I typically have the opposite problem; file shares stay connected even after I've left the network where they exist! And the Finder loses its mind when I try to eject them.

My best advice would be to add the shared volume to the dock. That way if it's disconnected, it just takes a single click to reconnect. (Drag the disk to the right side of the line in the dock; next to the Trash / Eject icon.)
 
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satcomer said:
Depends. It sounds as if the drives go to sleep and don't get the wake command from the woke up Mac! How is it connected, FireWire, Thunderbolt, USB 3?
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It's connected wirelessly. I changed the settings on the drive to disable sleep so I don't think it's a problem with the drive, I think it's something that OS X is doing

DJLC said:
My best advice would be to add the shared volume to the dock. That way if it's disconnected, it just takes a single click to reconnect. (Drag the disk to the right side of the line in the dock; next to the Trash / Eject icon.)
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If I'm using the computer then it's just a case of pressing command + K to re-connect to the drive - it's when I'm not actually at the computer but want to watch something on Plex when I'm getting the problem.

Thanks anyway for your replies though
 
satcomer said:
What makes you so sure about that? Has it been doing that since you had a Mac?
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It's only been doing it since I got the MacBook. If I connect with my old Windows laptop then it works fine and keeps the connection permanently but when I try with my MacBook it loses the connection several times a day
 
hi bluelightalarm
I've come across exactly this issue too and adopted a simple application for which I shelled out a little bit of money. But it's fully worth it. I've fiddled with scripts and startup items, but in the end it was too much of a fiddle and unreliable.

The app is called drive mounter: https://itunes.apple.com/app/drive-mounter/id441149468?ls=1&mt=12
You'll have to shell out a bit under $7. But at least now I have one worry less.

enjoy
 
flashmac76 said:
hi bluelightalarm
I've come across exactly this issue too and adopted a simple application for which I shelled out a little bit of money. But it's fully worth it. I've fiddled with scripts and startup items, but in the end it was too much of a fiddle and unreliable.

The app is called drive mounter: https://itunes.apple.com/app/drive-mounter/id441149468?ls=1&mt=12
You'll have to shell out a bit under $7. But at least now I have one worry less.

enjoy
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THANK YOU!!!!! I downloaded it last night and have had no trouble at all today - worth every penny!
 
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