This is well worth doing using a plug-in power monitor I monitored the PC's power usage for a month to obtain real world figures.
Automountmaker Pc#
In order to save on my electricity bills I have set the PC to go into S3 sleep when inactive. My setup is slightly different in that my music files are on an XP PC that is also used for backups and as a Digital video recorder.
We could move this discussion over to the proper article if you like. Thanx again for your patience with a noob. I'm wondering if anyone out there has seen and dealt successfully with this behavior.
I'm thinking I should write some kind of a ping app that periodically refreshes the connection in the background. This doesn't seem to happen if I'm using it periodically (like when listening to iTunes). What's bugging me here is that an idle connection to the share on my NAS will time out after a period of time (a few hours, maybe) and I'll have to reconnect manually. Where I worked in a previous life, I was used to being connected to a number of shares on the company network and having those connections persist, except for genuine system failure issues. Both seem to get me to the same place when done manually. I had read something somewhere that indicated one method is preferable to the other when setting this up as a startup item, but no reason was given why. One thing I don't understand is the difference between connecting through the Finder panes (select Network, than the NAS item, then connect to the share) and Go/Connect to server.
Automountmaker password#
Also, there's a user name and password associated with that action which seems to be taken care of during the startup process through the Keychain facility. I forget now whether this is mandatory with the LaCie drive, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. When I connect to my NAS, I have to explicitly select a share to connect to. I've been fiddling with the Automator script to try to get it to work, more to learn about Automator than anything. Yes I did, and oops, I meant to post to that article instead of this one originally. Let's support this guy for making our lives easier :-) This app is worth quite a bit in my book. The app is free but the developer accepts donations for all his work.
Automountmaker download#
Here is a link to the site where you can download the application. This application really is easy and solves a somewhat annoying problem that Apple crated by removing the auto connect check box when connecting to a network drive. The application's website has plenty of screenshots and even these two videos. Open System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items and drag the file into this window and your done. Save the infomation as a AutomountMaker file.ĥ. Enter the username and password if required.Ĥ.
Open the app and enter the name or address of your NAS and the folder to mount.ģ. In simple terms here is what needs to happen.Ģ. This application has a simple GUI allowing even the most unskilled users to setup their NAS drive to mount automatically every time they login. This afternoon I spent some serious time on the subject and settled on the AutomountMaker application. While this was a good method of mounting the drive, I still kept looking for something a little easier to setup for all the readers.
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I wrote an article explaining how to do this and made the script available for download. Īs some of you know I created an Automator script to mount my NAS drive when I login to my music server. It's not the end of the world to recover from this, but it's far easier to prevent it from happening. Then the dreaded exclamation marks appear next to every track. Launching iTunes before the NAS drive is mounted will reset your music folder location to the default local folder. Those of you using a NAS drive to store your music collection know that mounting the drive is very important.
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