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Subject: Shell Script Failure
From: Jennifer Charrey <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:48:05 -0700

Hello,

I just stumbled across AppleScript's "do shell script" functionality. Very handy. However, whenever I execute a certain command within the shell script, I get an error. The command is "diskutil unmount [identifier]" to unmount a partition. It works fine on the command line or in a perl script, but when I call the script from AppleScript an odd thing happens: AppleScript kind of hangs for a while, then diskutil throws the error "Volume failed to unmount". Simultaneously the volume DOES unmount! So when I add AppleScript to the equation, diskutil does weird stuff.

I have tried:
* adding the "force" option to diskutil unmount
* writing everything as a perl script called by a one-line AppleScript
* do shell script with user name, pass, and admin privileges

Any suggestions? Obviously I can suppress the error but the script still takes forever to run, and I'm curious how to fix the problem.

Thanks in advance.
Jennifer
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