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How to detect Time Machine volume?
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How to detect Time Machine volume?


  • Subject: How to detect Time Machine volume?
  • From: Leonardo Borsten <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:57:37 -0400

Hello,

What is the most reliable way to detect in code if a mounted volume is the Time Machine disk?
Currently I'm using the following code (also to detect a Boot Camp volume):

- (Boolean)isNotSearchable:(NSString *)volumePath
{

NSFileManager *fm = [NSFileManager defaultManager];

	NSString *timemachine = [volumePath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Backups.backupdb"];
	NSString *winSystem = [volumePath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"MSDOS.SYS"];

	if ([fm fileExistsAtPath:timemachine]) return YES;
	if ([fm fileExistsAtPath:winSystem]) return YES;

	return NO;
}

This works fine on my system. Will this code work reliably on my user's systems? Is there a better way?
The same question can apply for iDisk and iCloud, probably.

The reason I need to know is that I have a function using FSCatalogSearch where I definitely don't want to access these type of volumes.

Thanks!


Leonardo Borsten
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