Re: mounted drive Aliases problem

FROM : Uli Kusterer
DATE : Wed Jun 21 16:42:44 2006

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