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-20 +15/-35 votes

/Network needs to be available in Finder sidebar

Submitted by Oscar on August 10, 2008 to Annoyance

To go to your 'network' in Finder, you need to either know the keyboard shortcut, or find it in the 'go' menu. It can't be dragged into the sidebar, unlike everything else. It's annoying that they forcibly hide it away.

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Not fixed

Discussion (4 comments)

jono1 wrote on August 10, 2008, 2:21pm

There should be a computer link in your sidebar. If there isn't, go to Finder preferences (command-comma from a Finder window), and click on "sidebar". "Computer" is one of the available options. It will then show up in your sidebar, although it will be labelled with the network name of your machine, not simply "Computer".

Oscar wrote on August 11, 2008, 11:23am

Changed title from [Computer/Network needs to be available in Finder sidebar] to [/Network needs to be available in Finder sidebar].
Changed problem description.

bailey_ca wrote on August 12, 2008, 6:09am

Network used to be available; it was superseded by SHARED which, IMO, is not as useful.

ncus wrote on August 12, 2008, 10:28am

What do you mean by superseded as Shared?? You still can see the computers, no? If there is a lot of computers, Finder will dispal All... to see all computers on the network. I say.. this is far more effective than having to acces the Network. Just too many clicks.

mojo2012 wrote on September 27, 2008, 8:14am

Hmm if you have 10 or more pcs in a network, the finder window doens't display all pcs. So you have to resize the window or close the other sections of the sidebar. Ergo, more clicks are needed to show all pcs on a network. Wouldn't it be easier to have just network icon in the sidebar. One click and you have all pcs at once.

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