Re: Catching Eject Errors
Re: Catching Eject Errors
- Subject: Re: Catching Eject Errors
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 15:49:21 -0400
In this case I believe you are better off using the "do shell script"
command to eject from the shell. If you use the diskutil tool in the
shell it will simply fail silently if the disk is in use. So you could
attempt to eject, check to see if the volume was unmounted, and then
repeat every so often until it is ejected:
----
tell application "iTunes"
set mySource to some source whose name contains "iPod"
update mySource
set ipodName to name of mySource
end tell
set podPath to quoted form of ("/Volumes/" & ipodName)
set isUnmounted to false
repeat while not isUnmounted
do shell script "diskutil eject " & podPath & "> /dev/null 2>&1 &"
delay 5
if (ipodName is in (list disks)) then
delay 25
else
set isUnmounted to true
end if
end repeat
----
I believe that this should work just fine. Give it a try.
- Ken
On May 29, 2004, at 1:05 PM, Jason Kacmarski wrote:
I'm trying to write a script that will update and then eject my iPod.
I'm running into a problem because the script isn't waiting until
after the update is complete to eject the iPod, which results in a
"disk in use" error. I'm trying to catch the error with a try
statement, but it's not working for some reason. Here's the script
I'm using:
tell application "iTunes"
set mySource to some source whose name contains "iPod"
update mySource
set ipodName to name of mySource
end tell
tell application "Finder"
try
eject ipodName
on error theErr number errNum
log theErr & " - " & errNum
end try
end tell
The Finder pops up an error dialog every time and doesn't pass the
error back to the script. Any ideas on how to either get this error
suppressed and passed back to the script so that I can use a delay
loop or check whether a disk is in use before ejecting it? Any help
would be much appreciated.
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