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 19:39:12 -0700
As far as I can tell, the lack of a Finder disk id property (and
corresponding "disk id <number>" reference form) is an oversight in
Mac OS X, and nobody has asked for it before now. It worked in
Finder 9. I've entered a Radar bug to track this.
Cheers,
--Dave
On Sep 22, 2005, at 10:23 AM, Luther Fuller wrote:
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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