Mounting AFP with AppleScript putting a hyphen in the mount name?

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Mounting AFP with AppleScript putting a hyphen in the mount name?

I have a script that mounts a couple AFP volumes, like so:

tell application "Finder"
try
mount volume "afp://username:password@192.168.0.10/live"
end try
end tell

The problem is, occasionally (but not always) this will create an empty "live" folder in /Volumes/, along with a proper mount under the name "live-1". Does anyone know how I can prevent this from happening?

Posted on Jan 25, 2011 10:03 AM

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Answer 1

Camelot

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Jan 25, 2011 10:43 AM in response to ashground

The number is appended if you try to mount a volume that has the same name as an existing volume - for example, if you mount the volume 'live' and you already have a mounted volume called 'live' (even from another disk, server, disk image, etc.) then the new one will be called 'live-1' to differentiate it.

As for solution? Well, check there isn't already a 'live' volume mounted before you try to mount the new one...

tell application "Finder"
if not (disk "live" exists) then
mount volume "afp://user:pass@server/live"
end if
end tell

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ashground Author

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Jan 25, 2011 10:54 AM in response to Camelot

This is great in theory, but the "live" folder in /Volumes/ doesn't exist until I try to mount it. That's why I'm confused. Checking for the existence of the mount (or folder in /Volumes/) doesn't make a difference, because both "live" and "live-1" are created during the mount command.

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xandy71

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Jan 27, 2011 5:02 PM in response to ashground

I have this running

try
mount volume "afp://Your IP/Your Share"
end try

save it as a app. and put it to your startupitems ( users prefpan ).

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ashground Author

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Jan 27, 2011 5:11 PM in response to xandy71

If you look at the code I posted in my original message, you'll see that this is exactly what I'm doing.

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Jan 27, 2011 6:11 PM in response to ashground

I haven't seen this kind of thing happening for a long time. Are you running a very old version of OS X, or are you using terminal commands for mounting/unmounting volumes?

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ashground Author

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Jan 27, 2011 6:13 PM in response to The Preacher

Nope, running 10.6.4, absolutely nothing funky going on with terminal or shell scripts. This script is the absolutely only thing that runs. I swear, I thought that the days of random hyphens and ghost folders were behind us. Apparently not.

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Jan 27, 2011 6:34 PM in response to ashground

Yeah, same here. I've no idea how that's happening there. I did notice though that mount volume is doing some odd stuff. If used when the volume is already mounted, it'll unmount the volume - even if it's in the middle of being used for file copying.

Sorry, no idea what's happening there. Best idea I can think of is to try to dynamically determine the name of the volume - checking for the regular name and the same name with the suffix "-1". It's messy, but might be a workaround.

Alternatively you could use the terminal command mount_afp to mount the volume at a specific location, but then of course you get in to the messy business of having to add and remove folders in /volumes to act as the mount point.

Message was edited by: The Preacher

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xandy71

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Jan 28, 2011 1:58 AM in response to ashground

run it without tell Application.......

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Answer 9

Jan 28, 2011 3:18 AM in response to xandy71

Yeah, this is part of Standard Additions, so there's no need to invoke the Finder. I tried both approaches though, and some general messing around to try to recreate the problem - with little success.

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