Re: Which drive is a CD in?
Re: Which drive is a CD in?
- Subject: Re: Which drive is a CD in?
- From: Matt Deatherage <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 04:40:01 -0500
On 5/20/07 at 3:55 AM, Ruth Bygrave <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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...
Small but important point: the Finder *knows* what the volume's name is,
as reported by the file system code, but sorts based on the display
name.
> 1) At user (non-scripting) level -- is there something really obvious
> I'm missing which shows where the physical mount point is?
Yes - Disk Utility. Finder has never disambiguated copies of volumes
because, more or less, it assumes that if you're going to make exact
copies of things, you probably know what you're doing, so it hasn't made
any extra effort to flag them specially.
OS-level identifiers like "disk2" or "disk1s9" or "uata/@0:0" don't
actually communicate information to most people, so Finder and iTunes
don't show them. Disk Utility does, as does the "diskutil" command-line
utility. (You can't really imagine that a UI that hides filename
extensions by default is going to make room for Unix device names, can
you?)
> 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'll have to leave this to someone who has a current version of Toast,
but it appears this is just an extension of the first question -
determining what volume is mounted from a given device, or vice-versa.
This page isn't exactly on point but might help you some:
<http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/showthread.php?t=235>
> 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...
Finder, iTunes, and Toast do not display every bit of information they
have access to, whether you might find it useful or not. Hiding things
like these that most users don't find useful, but making them available
in utilities for those who do need them, is one of the guiding
principles of the human interface -- don't overload people with mostly
useless information. It sucks if *you're* the one who finds it useful,
but it is there - just not where you'd prefer it.
--
Matt Deatherage <email@hidden>
GCSF, Incorporated <http://www.macjournals.com>
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