Emptying the "Volumes" folder
Emptying the "Volumes" folder
- Subject: Emptying the "Volumes" folder
- From: "Mr. T." <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:12:21 -0400
| Greetings!
Note: I am a total "newbie" at applescripts so please excuse me if my question is a bit "elementary".
Problem:
At the schools where I work we utilize a software program which requires the use of a common share point where marks are stored for our students. The share is mounted for users with a custom AFP mount script, which was created to mount the share using the share's owner and provide read/write access. Our issue revolves around the client machines "caching" the share point in the Volumes folder on some of the clients. We haven't been able to troubleshoot the root cause of why this happens, but think it may be users shutting down the machine without ejecting the volume.
With that in mind we created a "clean up script" which ejects the volume for the users but still find some "caching" of the share point. So as new students attempt to use the program there are "duplicates" of the share which look like the following:
"BasicSkills-1" "BasicSkills-2" and so on. What I did was create an applescript, which opens and deletes the duplicates in the volumes folder on each machine and deletes the duplicates for the users on log in. I wrote the simple script, which works fine, until it moves the folders to the trash (asks for admin name and password). Since the volumes folder is only allowed to be modified by an admin user... I'd like the script to supply it. I've tried several times to create the proper language in the script but have failed miserably.
Can anyone offer some assistance? I've included the script below for a review.
Thanks in advance for any advice....
Regards,
Joe
Script below:
tell application "Finder" activate make new Finder window set target of Finder window 1 to item "Volumes" of startup disk end tell tell application "Finder"
if exists item "BasicSkillsData" of item "Volumes" of startup disk then delete item "BasicSkillsData" of item "Volumes" of startup disk if exists item "BasicSkillsData-1" of item "Volumes" of startup disk then delete item "BasicSkillsData-1" of item "Volumes" of startup disk if exists item "BasicSkillsData-2" of item "Volumes" of startup disk then delete item "BasicSkillsData-2" of item "Volumes" of startup disk if exists item "BasicSkillsData-3" of item "Volumes" of startup disk then delete item "BasicSkillsData-3" of item "Volumes" of startup disk
close every window end tell
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