Re: Unique Identifier for Disk
Re: Unique Identifier for Disk
- Subject: Re: Unique Identifier for Disk
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:37:02 -0500
On 4/26/04 6:33 AM, "Jeffrey Berman" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Applications such as the Finder and System Events see partitioned volumes as
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"disk" objects. Is there a unique identifier for a disk that is not the
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startup disk and that would persist over restarts so that an AppleScript
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script referring to the disk would work as expected even if the name of the
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disk changes?
If you only want local drives, then you can, but you have to parse the
output of disktool so that you can use Mike's -k switch on hfs.util. Then
compare UUIDs.
If you want to include network volumes, you're kinda SOL. System events has
an ID flag that works with Network volumes, but it changes from mount to
mount.
I think that I may be putting in a feature request for UUID support in the
system events or Finder dictionaries, and some way to do the same for
Network mounts too. Having to use hfs.util for this is inelegant.
john
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"95% of everyone you meet will be a moron. This is usually proven by looking
in the mirror each morning."
John C. Welch
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