Which drive is a CD in?
Which drive is a CD in?
- Subject: Which drive is a CD in?
- From: Ruth Bygrave <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 09:55:06 +0100
One of the annoying things to me as a switcher is that it's
relatively easy to figure out where a disc is mounted in Windows,
because of the drive notation, but it seems to be relatively
difficult on the Mac, because all the obvious things seem to shuffle
about irritatingly based on name.
If, for example, you're checking two backup discs and you put them
into each of two optical drives, they just appear as two copies of a
disc with the same name. IMO the physical mount point should appear
on the Finder's "Get Info" properties sheet exactly for this reason.
If I look at a pair of backup discs the immediately-visible
information on a file on those discs is something like "/Volumes/
DiscName/theFile" versus "/Volumes/DiscName 1/theFile" which is not a
heck of a lot of use unless you remember which one you put in first...
If you re-name audio CDs in iTunes they shuffle about by the name of
the CD. They're also affected by what I consider to be 'the CDDB
virus' if you have that on, or possible confusion in the CDinfo file.
OTOH, if you script going through a list of audio CDs in iTunes they
appear by mount order.
In the Sidebar, the discs shuffle about by what the Finder thinks the
name is, which may well be confusing, especially when a) it gets
confused or b) the name is updated in iTunes...
1) At user (non-scripting) level -- is there something really obvious
I'm missing which shows where the physical mount point is?
2) I can figure out how to script 'make a new disc image' in Toast,
but I can't figure out at all how to make a copy as a disc image
based on where it's mounted (I have two optical drives, several
external hard drives, and a floating population of Toast images.
Disambiguating 'copy this disc based on where the physical disc is'
would be quite useful).
I know Terminal probably has its unambiguous references to physical
mount points of drives, but I have no clue on how to get anywhere
with GUI-level things like iTunes and Finder and Toast...
Regards, Ruth
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