Re: Droplet for disks with duplicate names
Re: Droplet for disks with duplicate names
- Subject: Re: Droplet for disks with duplicate names
- From: Dave Lyons <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:21:59 -0700
Thanks for the detailed steps (and the Radar bug). I can indeed
reproduce the problem when I duplicate a .dmg file. My current
hypothesis is that the difference is whether the two volumes have
identical creation dates or not, and we're looking into it as a
possible Alias Manager issue.
Cheers,
--Dave
On Sep 21, 2005, at 9:29 PM, Laine Lee wrote:
On 9/21/05 9:07 PM, "Dave Lyons" <email@hidden> wrote:
If the script below confuses the two disks as written, I'd like to
get some more details of your configuration so I can reproduce the
problem. Or, if there is a larger script that fails, I'd be
interested to experiment with that as well. It might or might not be
possible to find some syntax that avoids converting through a
pathname.
It's the way you created and mounted the disk images that allowed
them to be
distinguished, I believe. The only situation in which it's likely
they would
be created precisely that way is for testing this complaint. Here's
a method
that should reveal the problem.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Script Editor to save the following Applescript as an
application
with the name "DiskID.app".
on open selection
tell application "Finder"
repeat with i in selection
display dialog (index of (a reference to disk i)) as string
end repeat
end tell
end open
2. Use Disk Utility to create a disk image named "Apple Disk
Volume" and
save it to the desktop. Hold down the option key and drag the image
file
(not its mounted drive icon) to another location on the hard drive
such as
the home folder to make a copy. Drag the original disk image's
volume icon
to the trash to unmount Apple Disk Volume.
3. Double-click the Apple Disk Volume.dmg icon on the desktop to
once again
mount its volume. Double-click the second Apple Disk Volume.dmg
icon. There
should now be two volume icons named "Apple Disk Volume" visible on
the
desktop.
4. Drag one, then the other "Apple Disk Volume" volume icon onto
the DiskID
application's icon.
Note that the same disk index number is displayed in an Applescript
dialog
box no matter which icon is dragged.
--
Laine
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