On Nov 8, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Dan wrote:

>
> At 7:38 PM -0500 11/7/2008, Doug Burton wrote:
>> DA it's running 10.4.11 of course.
>>
>> To facilitate the volumes being mounted when starting Tiger I just
>> dragged the icon to the startup items list.
>
> Essentially, that put an alias to the volume in the startupitems
> folder.  That alias was then *opened* by Finder - the same as a
> double-click action.  So it is intended and expected that it would
> open the window.
>
> If you want the volume to mount on your desktop without opening the
> window, then you'll need to do just that -- actually mount the
> volume, not tell Finder mount and open it!  Do that with a shell or
> applescript that runs disk utility.
>
> - Dan.

Well, Bruce's script works, but it would be better if the windows  
didn't open at all so I'll give that a shot.  Thanks Dan.

Just a message from Doug...


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