Re: How can I differentiate a jump drive folder from a HD folder of the same name?
Re: How can I differentiate a jump drive folder from a HD folder of the same name?
- Subject: Re: How can I differentiate a jump drive folder from a HD folder of the same name?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:52:27 -0400
On Sep 10, 2010, at 2:32 PM, Jim Brandt wrote: Disk "HD1" points to the HD, not to the jump drive. That's my point ... they both have the same name. I need to know how to be able to refer to them individually.
I was struggling with a similar problem the other day. Basically, every technique I know of to get a disk in AppleScript relies on the name of the disk. Thus, when you have duplicate disk names, you always get the same one -- the first one that AppleScript finds with the given name. I consider this a bug in the Finder and/or System Events and/or AppleScript, because there are legitimate circumstances where you might have disks mounted that have identical names.
That isn't quite the scenario you described, but it's close.
The solution I hit on was to put a unique Spotlight comment in each disk's Get Info window, as a sort of tag, then use a script like this:
tell application "Finder" set thisID to id of first disk whose comment contains "MP" tell disk id thisID -- do something with it end tell end tell
Maybe you can adapt this technique to your scenario.
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