Hereafter, double-clicking the shared folder alias on the desktop opened a new finder window, right in the sharepoint. Double-clicking opened the share point and then I got the “open” button. Selecting the sharepoint for our group didn’t give me any active “open” button (shouldn’t this button really offer “use” in this instance? But that’s a whole nother discussion). I took the option to fix the alias by navigating to the list of share-points on the sever, in the window entitled “select new original”. The alias “” can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found. Clicking on this brought the familiar “alias missing a target” message. I got an alias to the share point as a folder. I was able, however, to cmd+option+drag the sharepoint to the Desktop. I was not able to drag the sharepoint to the sidebar. I would like to call up the root of the sharepoint with a single click, but how? I got some hints here, but this workflow didn’t actually function for me – I couldn’t drag to the sidebar directly. Why was this useful? Because our group sharepoint is one of about 100 on the network drive, and having to navigate to it is tiresome, and perilous if making a complex drag-and-drop operation. Previously, I had a sidebar alias for the root of our directory on the server. Particularly, this meant that although individual folders in the directory could be targets for aliases, the root directory, home to about 139 directories of heterogeneous information, apparently could not. Recently, the server was updated and the directory structure changed. Our group has a shared directory on an institutional server. Click Next twice to walk through the informational steps of the Add Network Location wizard. Click the link named Connect to a web site that you can use to store your documents and pictures. Note: although this worked in Lion (10.7.5), it doesn’t seem to work in Snow Leopard (10.6.8) In the pane on the left, right-click the Network folder and select Map network drive.
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