Re: mounted drive Aliases problem
Re: mounted drive Aliases problem
- Subject: Re: mounted drive Aliases problem
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:42:44 +0200
Am 20.06.2006 um 16:46 schrieb Aalok:
The problem is, sometimes
(I acutally cannot figure out when exactly) the drive is mounted with
an aliases. This creates problem in my program as i use the fix path.
One more thing I observed is, under /Volumes the original mount name
is still present. If I do "rm -r" on that directory the mounting
starts working properly again with original directory name as mount
name. (eg, if I mount drive with name "music" in /Volumes it comes
/Volumes/music. But when aliase is created, /Volumes/music still
remains there and /Volumes/music1 is created automatically. Though in
finder it show "music" as mounted name.)
I don't really understand what you're trying to do and where
Aliases come in in your problem. Do you mean an AliasHandle or an
Alias file? Or do you simply mean it's mounted under a different
name? Just in case you didn't come across this in the docs: You *can
not* rely on a drive showing up under /Volumes with the actual drive
name. There can be several mounted volumes with the same name, and
then they'll show up under /Volumes with names like name1 and name2.
That's by design.
Paths in /Volumes are transient. Don't save them away, don't expect
them to stay the same between launches of your application, or across
restarts, or the second time a volume is mounted after it's been
unmounted. Ideally, you would get the drive's path from the mount
notification NSWorkspace sends you, or if you mount it yourself,
there should be a way to get it from the API you use to mount the drive.
To save away a reference to a volume, use an AliasHandle.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de
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