Accessing an iDisk Pubic Folder
To mount another .Mac/MobileMe member’s iDisk Public folder, select from the Finder menu bar Go > iDisk > Other User’s Public Folder option:
You will see a dialog window
opening asking for the Member’s .Mac/MobileMe
name. Enter the Member’s name and click on the
Connect button:
A progress window will open:
In case the folder is password
protected a second dialog window will open in allowing you
to enter the required password. If you plan to access the
folder regularly click on the Remember this
password in my keychain option. To continue click
on the OK button.
This mounts the iDisk on your
desktop, so you can work with it, depending on the owner of
the folder, you may only have read access. If the owner
allowed full read/write access you will be able to use the
iDisk like any other hard disk.
Please note that the iDisk icon may not look like this:
But instead like this:
The icon format depends if you
are on OS X 10.5.4 or not. Functionality is not affected.
Also in addition to the disk being shown as mounted a
finder window will open showing the content of the public
folder.
To see any subfolders, click on
the triangle to the left of the top
folders name:
To dismount (eject) the iDisk
click on the eject icon to the right of
the iDisk in the left side bar of the Finder window:
If you don’t see the iDisk
under the DEVICES section in the Finder window, you may
need to change your Finder Preferences. To do so, select
from the Finder menu bar Finder >
Preferences...:
In the Preferences window make
sure that the iDisk option has a check
mark against it:
