No-auto creation of non-mounted external volumes..

[joshua]

Hi. I had suggested this before but would like to re-suggest it as it still continues to plague my setup w/ external drives on OS X... (And I didn't see it on the "already suggested list" so I hope I didn't miss it...

I know this wasn't going to make it into 5.0 but hoping I can get it up the food chain for the next release.

I have a MacMini w/ a 1.5TB External USB drive for my storage.

In the rare time that the USB drive, called "media" is not mounted, Sabnzbd creates (as advertised) the directories locally. The problem is that it then macosx refers to the external volume as "media 1" when it's mounted, and then trouble happens because now I have a drive that still mounts as "media" but osx thinks it's "media 1" and sabnzbd starts downloading everything to the internal drive.

On top of having to go into terminal to delete the dirs, etc. to fix this... any suggestions on how to avoid this - other than making sure my external is always booted?

Ideally I'd love it NOT  to create a new volume if it wasn't mounted - as an option.

Thoughts... suggestions... ideas?

Thanks!

[shypike]

There will be a solution in the next major release.

[joshua]

awesome. thanks... i will be looking forward to testing and using it. :-)

[eOn]

Hello,

For my part I use this solution :

Mount external drive without user login Mac Leopard, and Snow Leopard
Hot to mount external drive without user login Mac Leopard, and Snow Leopard

Create a blank text file, and past this code in:

AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin


Save the file as autodiskmount.plist move the file to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/
Note: The second line is all one line. reboot, done. This will mount your drives without logging in. works in Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard in my experience.

Source : http://goo.gl/y5tBN

PS : It's important that this .plist file inherit from parent subfolder.