Hi guys,
Why is there a Locations folder in Mac Finder? What is the meaning of Locations in this particular case? What is a Location and what do we use it for?
Surprisingly, there is no thoughtful explanation to be found on this topic that I could find.
Please provide a simple and clear response. Thanks a lot.
Locations is not a folder, but rather is a category comprised of your current Mac, mounted drives, network shares available for mounting, servers detected on the local network (like my Synology DiskStation NAS), or a Network category which may again show a network NAS, or other network devices.
If I want to mount a share from my Synology NAS, I simply click on its name in my Locations entry on the Finder side bar and the share mounts.
Locations is not a folder, but rather is a category comprised of your current Mac, mounted drives, network shares available for mounting, servers detected on the local network (like my Synology DiskStation NAS), or a Network category which may again show a network NAS, or other network devices.
If I want to mount a share from my Synology NAS, I simply click on its name in my Locations entry on the Finder side bar and the share mounts.
Where do you see a Locations "folder"?
Thank you VikingOSX.
Can you provide an explanation an 8-year old could understand?
In the Finder sidebar. See attached (scroll all the way down).
rshammaa wrote:
In the Finder sidebar. See attached (scroll all the way down).
As Viking explained, it is not a folder. And FWIW, one can't scroll screen shots.
Why is there a Locations folder in Mac Finder?
