I share a common iCloud based Desktop for my iMac, my MacBook and my iPad so that they all remain in sync. I have not been able to properly list a General folder on my desktop that keeps a hierarchy of all my docs and folders. Any time I drop the General folder into one of the XMenu options, it disappears from the Desktop and no longer shares info with the other iOS cpus. What is the proper way to do this? Mahalo!- Rob
It’s not possible to customize XMenu that way. But you could enable the custom menu and add aliases to the folder ~/Library/Application Support/XMenu/Custom
Alias do not work when added to the custom library folder. It says so right in the instructions, as well as can be easily documented by trying it. Got any other ideas?
Aloha ke Akua
Rob
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Using an alias in the “user defined” menu item still does not allow a normal hierarchy display of contacts. I just get “none”. So my question remains how can I get a menu hierarchy using XMenu for a folder on my “desktop” that is shared across several CPU machines on iCloud. If I put the folder into a xMenu library, it disappears from the desktop and is no longer shared. If I try and use an alias, no hierarchy is created. Is there a solution?
Mahalo.
Rob
Does XMenu have full disk access? In addition, for the application folder there’s a dedicated menu option.
Did you actually move the folder instead of creating an alias?
No, I created an alias and moved that into the user defined preference.
What about full disk access?
I don’t use iCloud to sync Desktop & Documents, so I can’t test that setup. But an alias of a folder in iCloud Drive works fine here, even without full disk access.
Are you dropping the alias directly on the menu bar? Try opening ~/Library/Application Support/XMenu/Custom in a Finder window and drop the alias there. That’s what I did.