<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:8.0px Helvetica"><span style="font:10.0px Helvetica">" QGIS Tip 9 <b>L</b></span><b>OAD LAYER AND PROJECT FROM MOUNTED EXTERNAL DRIVES ON </b><span style="font:10.0px Helvetica"><b>OS X</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:10.0px Helvetica"><b>On OS X, portable drives that are mounted besides the primary hard drive do not show up under File Open</b></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:10.0px Helvetica"><b>Project as expected. We are working on a more OSX-native open/save dialog to fix this. As a workaround</b></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:10.0px Helvetica"><b>you can type ’/Volumes’ in the File name box and press return. Then you can navigate to external drives and</b></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:10.0px Helvetica"><b>network mounts."</b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:10.0px Helvetica"><b><br></b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:10.0px Helvetica"><b>My copy of the manual has this tip on page 38. </b></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:10.0px Helvetica"><b><br></b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:10.0px Helvetica"><b>I put an QGIS alias in the portable drive and open from there. All the files including Project are readily available.</b></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:10.0px Helvetica"><b><br></b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:10.0px Helvetica"><b>Hope this helps someone, Elvin Birth </b></p>