I have an external HDD attached to my Mac mini. Please could someone help me CD-ing to said drive from my home folder? The drive is named NAS and the folder which contains a script I want to use is named PlexMediaServer . Many thanks for any help.
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Mac mini, macOS 15.6
bwardapple14 wrote:
I have an external HDD attached to my Mac mini. Please could someone help me CD-ing to said drive from my home folder? The drive is named NAS and the folder which contains a script I want to use is named PlexMediaServer . Many thanks for any help.
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Do you see the external HDD in your Finder...(?) is that the issue.
Make some changes
Finder>Settings>Sidebar
Finder>Settings>General
from the terminal cd is not a complicated CLI...copy & paste:
cd
note the trailing blank space, drag and drop your external HDD onto the terminal window to complete the path —if that is your issue(?)
Thanks. Yes, I can see the drive I am aiming for in Finder. Actually, I have to connect to a file on my NAS which needs to run from inside Terminal. Specifically, I was asked to "make sure you cd to the Plex/PlexMediaServer folder." I will try with the drag and drop method, but there might be a technical need for me to cd into it from inside Terminal, as I said.
The instructions provided by @leroydouglas does exactly as you want.
You need to be very careful using the Terminal command line blindly since a simple typographical error could end with catastrophic results including data loss. The command line has absolutely no safety nets, so be extremely careful with it.
You should make sure to have good backups to that computer and that external drive before doing anything else.
You really should get some basic understanding of the command line before you start blindly entering commands. In fact, any command you want to use, you should understand what it will do including the options associated with that command.
Here is a link to an introduction to the command line which can get you started with the basics (while this tutorial uses the Bash shell, most of the instructions will also apply to the more recent Zsh as well):
https://scriptingosx.com/2017/07/first-steps-in-terminal/
CD to external HDD's PlexMediaServer folder from Mac mini home folder
