So, first off, I want to clarify that the issue ISN'T this: Every time I disconnect and reconnect to the server, selecting the same file returns a different path. The first time I got Bookmark resolution does not depend on the mount (or full) path and never has. While the full path on macOS tends to be relatively stable, that's simply a side effect of the macOS volume mounting convention, NOT something the bookmark system actually relies on. You can easily prove this yourself by setting up two different SMB shares that with names such that they both mount as foo. Whichever is mounted first will mount /Volumes/foo/ and the second will mount at /Volumes/foo 1/. If you create a boomark to an object bar on one of those two shares, then macOS will happily resolve the bookmark to that object to either /Volumes/foo/bar or /Volumes/foo 1/bar, depending on which order the shares happen to have been mounted when you resolve the bookmark. That leads to here: Is it not possible to automatically mount a server wh
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App & System Services
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Core OS
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