Re: Strange iDisk name (e.g., name-1)
Re: Strange iDisk name (e.g., name-1)
- Subject: Re: Strange iDisk name (e.g., name-1)
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:57:45 -0500
Well, I would handle it as a user choice. I'd ask the user where they
wanted to save the file through a dialog:
set theFolder to choose folder
That way it could be handled intelligently by a person rather than just
casting around with a script.
If you needed to do it without user interaction then I'd say you would
have to first get a listing of the /Volumes directory, then mount, then
get a second listing. Any new mount points in there should be the
volumes you just mounted. Save references to those mount points and
refer to them whenever you need to save to them.
- Ken
On Dec 16, 2003, at 5:34 PM, Jeffrey Mattox wrote:
I agree. The problem now is how does an AS program determine which
directory in /Volumes should be used given a disk name?
At 12:04 PM -0500 12/16/03, Graff wrote:
Right, in the Volumes directory every name has to be unique. The way
the OS handles this is to name any subsequent mounts with a suffix of
"-1", "-2", etc. so they won't overwrite each other. The name of the
volume as it appears to the Finder will probably be seen without the
extra suffix because that is read from the volume information rather
than from the name of the mount point. So you can have a couple of
mounted disks with the same name in the Finder, but they will all
have a unique name in /Volumes
This can result in one application getting the name of the volume
with the suffix while another gets it without the suffix, depending
on how they get the names.
- Ken
On Dec 16, 2003, at 11:35 AM, VRic wrote:
15/12/03 Jeffrey Mattox :
Sometimes an iDisk mounts as "name-1" instead of "name". What's up
with that?
I didn't pay much attention to it, but this happened to me recently
when
mounting 2 similar disk images.
There seems to be discrepancies in the way OS X names the resulting
volumes and which name applications see (maybe new in Panther, and
maybe
related to the new 2 flavors of mount).
2 disks with the same name should appear as such like in OS 9, but
probably the "Volumes" folder can't have 2 items with the same name
and
applications don't seem to agree on where to get the volume name.
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