Prevent mounted drives to open new windows

Good morning everyone! Sorry if I'm making this post where I can't.

I'm having this tiny issue - I have an external 1 TB drive that's attached to my Mac all the time, and every time I log into my user, two disk images I have in the disk pops up a new finder window (the same kind of window that appears when I mount a .dmg file). Is there any way that I can disable that from happening?

GUI or file / terminal hacks are welcomed!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Jan 9, 2011 10:30 PM

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Jan 11, 2011 9:47 AM in response to baltwo

Although this is a valuable resource you've posted, it didn't solve my problem.

I tried what you've said: I tried to unmount the partition (It's a 10 GB partition containing the Mac OS X 10.6 Install DVD) before I powered off my Mac and hen I logged back in, bam, there it was, the window asking me to install. I tried to unmount the whole disk, and still, bam, it's there when I logged on.

I tried what's discussed in the article, and nothing. The terminal doesn't show anything, and there's no login item directly connected to that partition / image / disk.

I tried in my MacBook and in my Mac. Nothing.

It's when I login that appears: The HD is connected to my Mac and it has one (of 8~) partitions that is an image. That image is the Mac OS X Install DVD, and the window that has the "Install Mac OS X" item ALWAYS appears when I log in. It's really uncomfortable.

Any other thoughts? Thanks for the info, BTW, I can have that in mind for the future!

Jan 12, 2011 9:14 AM in response to baltwo

Well thank you sir! I just logged into my Mac and it worked just flawlessly. The only thing I've noticed out of the usual is that the time Machine partition losts it's characteristic blue-green-ish icon in the finder (until Time Machine is activated again) - other than that, it's working great!

I might need to test it out when connecting the same HD to my MacBook. But everything worked great! Thank you so much for the info!

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