applescript working with mounted shares

There is probably a better way of checking but check

mac $ ls /Volumes/

1T Backup/ Backup - Time Machine/ FLIX MEDIA/ Macintosh HD@

Backup - Mac Mini/ Boot - for Fun/ Garmin Express/

mac $

Here is AppleScript that gets a list of ejectable, mounted drives, and uses that list to create an interactive selection of drives from which you choose one to eject.

tell application "Finder"

get name of (every disk whose ejectable is true and its name is not in {"Time Machine", "TIME MACHINE"}) as list

set VolumeName to (choose from list (result) with title "Mounted Volumes" default items "" without multiple selections allowed and empty selection allowed) as «class utf8»

if VolumeName is false then return -- user pressed cancel button

end if

-- now you can eject the VolumeName

What version of Max Os are you using?

R

Paul,

The lessons of copy/paste from existing code that works, but not entirely in context .... The following code works as is, and if there is an ejectable volume mounted, it will appear in a list prompt.

tell application "Finder"

get name of (every disk whose ejectable is true and its name is not in {"Time Machine", "TIME MACHINE"}) as list

set VolumeName to (choose from list (result) with title "Mounted Volumes" default items "" without multiple selections allowed and empty selection allowed) as «class utf8»

end tell

if VolumeName is false then return -- user pressed cancel button

return

As far as ejectable as false category, that will show the boot drive, home, net, and network mounted drives. I have a video folder on my Desktop that is mounted from my Synology DiskStation via AppleShare. It shows as one of these ejectable is false disks.

The Internet location file takes an existing file (e.g. csf.docx), and creates the following on my Desktop:

This is not what you thought it was, and is the file counterpart to a webloc document. If I double-click on this icon, it will open the document csf.docx in its default opening application (e.g. Pages v5.6.2). The following code is lifted from StefanK's example at MacScripter here.

set f to choose file

set myName to text returned of (display dialog "Enter Filename" default answer name of (info for f))

tell application "Finder"

set file_url to URL of f

makenewinternet location fileatdesktoptofile_urlwith properties {name:myName}

end tell

return

And the fileloc content is the following (note the file:/// URI).

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>URL</key>

<string>file:///Users/viking/Desktop/csf.docx</string>

</dict>

</plist>

Hello

You may use mount(8) to query SMB share address and its mount point.

#!/bin/bash mount | grep smbfs

If the SMB share address is listed with a mount point, e.g., /Volumes/SHARE, use the mount point. Otherwise use mount_smbfs(8) to mount the SMB address to whatever mount point you define and use it. Finally you may use umount(8) on the mount point to unmount the share.

Regards,

H

You can also use the smbutil statshares -a command when smbfs objects are mounted. See man smbutil.

A regular user can issue mount | grep smbfs. These are examples. I'm not using the mount command in the examples.

(*

It is easier to diagnose problems with debug information. I suggest adding
log statements to your script to see what is going on.  Here is an example.


    Author: rccharles
  
    For testing, run in the Script Editor.
      1) Click on the Event Log tab to see the output from the log
          statement
      2) Click on Run
    
  For running shell commands see:
  http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html
  


*)


on run
    -- Write a message into the event log.
    log "  --- Starting on " & ((current date) as string) & " --- "
    --  debug lines
    set desktopPath to (path to desktop) as string
    log "desktopPath = " & desktopPath
  
    set unixDesktopPath to POSIX path of desktopPath
    log "unixDesktopPath = " & unixDesktopPath
  
    set quotedUnixDesktopPath to quoted form of unixDesktopPath
    log "quoted form is " & quotedUnixDesktopPath
  
    try
        set fromUnix to do shell script "ls -l  " & quotedUnixDesktopPath
        display dialog "ls -l of " & quotedUnixDesktopPath & return & fromUnix
    on error errMsg
        log "ls -l error..." & errMsg
    end try
  
end run

to mount a volume, you need to be administrator.

(*

It is easier to diagnose problems with debug information. I suggest adding log statements to your script to see what is going on.  Here is an example.


    Author: rccharles
  
    For testing, run in the Script Editor.
      1) Click on the Event Log tab to see the output from the log statement
      2) Click on Run
    
    For running shell commands see:
    http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html
  


*)


on run
    -- Write a message into the event log.
    log "  --- Starting on " & ((current date) as string) & " --- "
    --  debug lines
  
  
    set unixDesktopPath to POSIX path of "/System/Library/User Template/"
    log "unixDesktopPath = " & unixDesktopPath
  
    set quotedUnixDesktopPath to quoted form of unixDesktopPath
    log "quoted form is " & quotedUnixDesktopPath
  
    try
        set fromUnix to do shell script "sudo ls -l  " & quotedUnixDesktopPath with administrator privileges
        display dialog "ls -l of " & quotedUnixDesktopPath & return & fromUnix
    on error errMsg
        log "ls -l error..." & errMsg
    end try
  
end run