Re: mounted drive Aliases problem

FROM : Aalok
DATE : Wed Jun 21 17:18:29 2006

Thank you for you response.

I actually mean the drive is mounted under different name. If you can
not relay on the name under /Volumes, can you please suggest me the
way to get the reference (or path) of the mounted drive
programatically?

"To save away a reference to a volume, use an AliasHandle" I dont
understand this stmt.

regards,

aalok


On 6/21/06, Uli Kusterer <<email_removed>> wrote:
> 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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