Re: Unmounted disks
Re: Unmounted disks
- Subject: Re: Unmounted disks
- From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 07:21:04 -0700
Wow! Thanks, Shane--
A great answer!
--Gil
> On Jun 19, 2017, at 9:26 PM, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 20 Jun 2017, at 12:12 pm, Gil Dawson <email@hidden
> <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>> My script needs to learn the names of unmounted (ejected but still
>> connected) hard disks.
>>
>> Back on 28 April 2014, Yvan Koenig showed us an effective script to parse
>> the result from...
>>
>> do shell script "diskutil list | grep Apple_HFS"
>>
>> Result:
>> " 2: Apple_HFS MBProHD 319.2 GB disk0s2
>> 2: Apple_HFS Black iOmega 319.7 GB disk1s2
>> 2: Apple_HFS Orange Backup of MBP... 999.9 GB disk2s2
>> 2: Apple_HFS Flash Player 20.0 MB disk3s2"
>>
>>
>> ...which can see both mounted and unmounted disks ("Black iOmega" is
>> unmounted).
>
> With APFS around the corner in 1013, that approach is on shaky ground. You'll
> probably need to use "diskutil list -plist", and parse the result.
>
> Here's something to get started:
>
> use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
> use framework "Foundation"
> use scripting additions
>
> set theResult to do shell script "diskutil list -plist"
> -- make dictionary from property list
> set theResult to current application's NSString's stringWithString:theResult
> set pListDict to theResult's propertyList()
> -- extract relevant info
> set disksAndParitions to pListDict's objectForKey:"AllDisksAndPartitions"
> set partitionsArray to current application's NSMutableArray's array() -- to
> store values
> repeat with anEntry in disksAndParitions
> set thePartitions to (anEntry's objectForKey:"Partitions")
> if thePartitions = missing value then -- no partitions means a volume
> (partitionsArray's addObject:anEntry)
> else
> (partitionsArray's addObjectsFromArray:thePartitions)
> end if
> end repeat
> -- filter by Content type
> set thePred to current application's NSPredicate's
> predicateWithFormat:"Content == 'Apple_HFS'"
> set partitionsArray to partitionsArray's filteredArrayUsingPredicate:thePred
> -- get names
> return (partitionsArray's valueForKey:"VolumeName") as list
>
> But it looks like 10.13 will require something quite different.
>
> --
> Shane Stanley <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>>
> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/
> <http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>>, <latenightsw.com
> <http://latenightsw.com/>>
>
>
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