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BlackShadowWolf

Feb 3 2007, 09:00 PM

Hey everyone, I finished my first real AppleScript last night. What it does, is that it will unmount specified volumes. Simple, but it also does it based on the computer architecture. I found this to be important as I have a firewire drive with 5 partitions, and want to close 4 of them, based on what system im running. Take a look and feel free to play with it

CODE

tell application "Finder"
    display alert "Unmounting extra volumes, please wait." as informational buttons "OK" giving up after 2
end tell
tell application "Terminal"
    activate
    set HardwareType to do shell script "uname -p"
    if HardwareType is "i386" then
        do script "diskutil unmount \"/Volumes/Intel Install\"" in ¬
            window frontmost
        delay 1
        do script "diskutil unmount \"/Volumes/PowerPC Install\"" in ¬
            window frontmost
        delay 1
        do script "diskutil unmount \"/Volumes/PowerPC Firewire\"" in ¬
            window frontmost
        delay 1
        do script "diskutil unmount \"/Volumes/Media Files\"" in ¬
            window frontmost
    end if
    if HardwareType is "PPC" then
        do script "diskutil unmount \"/Volumes/Intel Install\"" in ¬
            window frontmost
        delay 1
        do script "diskutil unmount \"/Volumes/PowerPC Install\"" in ¬
            window frontmost
        delay 1
        do script "diskutil unmount \"/Volumes/Intel Firewire\"" in ¬
            window frontmost
        delay 1
        do script "diskutil unmount \"/Volumes/Media Files\"" in ¬
            window frontmost
    end if
    delay 3
    quit
end tell
tell application "Finder"
    display alert "System is now ready." as informational buttons "OK" giving up after 2
end tell

Zealot

Feb 3 2007, 11:54 PM

i ll be teting this right away.

gt

BlackShadowWolf

Feb 4 2007, 04:10 AM

I had some problems with this original script as sometimes it would go too fast that not all the volumes wount unmount. I suggest increasing the delay times to 2 or 3 seconds so theres adequate time for each command to finish

alicheusz

Feb 4 2007, 08:14 AM

Apple script is heavy and take some time to load. Better solution is to put shell script in startup files

CODE

cd /System/Library/StartupItems/Disks/

sudo nano Disks

add after "/sbin/autodiskmount -va"

CODE

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
umount /Volumes/Win_XP
umount /Volumes/30\ GB\ NTFS

where Win_XP and 30\ GB\ NTFS are disk that you want to unmount

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