Re: Droplet for disks with duplicate names
Re: Droplet for disks with duplicate names
- Subject: Re: Droplet for disks with duplicate names
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:23:22 -0500
I've been meaning to ask a question along these lines for a few
weeks, but just didn't get around to it.
I too ran into a problem with multiple mounted disks having the same
name. A search of Apple's web site produced a document, dated 1999,
showing exactly how to solve this problem using disk ID numbers. The
solution was to identify the disk in Finder by ID number, then eject
the disk by simply telling the Finder to 'eject disk ID idNr'. This
solution no longer works, however.
The problem with doing this in the current OS (10.4) is that:
1. System Events understands what an ID number is and lets you
identify a disk by ID, but has no 'eject' command.
2. Finder has an 'eject' command, but no longer recognizes ID numbers.
Does anyone know when this change was made? And, more importantly, why?
A solution, which I have not yet tried, is to use the Unix name of
identically named disks. For example, if you have 3 ejectable disks
mounted, all named 'untitled', Unix will identify them as 'untitled',
'untitled 1' and 'untitled 2'. You can unmount the correct disk by
using the unix name, provided you escape the space character in the
posix path ('untitled\ 1' for example).
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