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Re: How to choose a hard disk or volume?
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Re: How to choose a hard disk or volume?


  • Subject: Re: How to choose a hard disk or volume?
  • From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 00:36:29 -0500
  • Organization: [very little]

Gary Hobish wrote:
> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:37:30 -0800
> From: Gary Hobish <email@hidden>
> Subject: How to choose a hard disk or volume?
> To: email@hidden
>
> I want the user to choose a volume within a script. I have tried:
>
> set localDisk to (choose disk with prompt "Choose your startup disk.")
>
> but I get an error when checking syntax on the word "disk" which says
> "Expected "," but found identifier."
>
> I tried the same thing with the word "volume" replacing "disk" but got the
> same error.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Also, how would I go about telling a system to restart from a script?

"choose folder" will allow you to select folders or volumes. There is
no "choose disk". You can filter out folders this way:

repeat
set theDisk to (choose folder with prompt "Pick a volume:")
tell application "Finder"
set theKind to the kind of theDisk
set theName to the name of theDisk
end tell
if theKind is "disk" then
exit repeat
else
display dialog theName & " is not a disk"
end if
end repeat

To restart from a script:

tell application "Finder" to restart

Marc [12/15/00 12:35:39 AM]


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