On Mar 23, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Karl Kuehn wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Rudolf O. Durrer wrote:
Even then, as well in the volume folder of the Snow Leo partition
as in the former Leo partition, the blocking folders (ex Aliases)
ar there
More than strange....?
I don't know, but maybe this is a misunderstanding on your part.
The items that are normally in /Volumes are not aliases. They are
folders that are the mount-points for volumes. As part of the auto-
mount process (how most volumes are mounted) the folder gets created
and then the volume gets mounted to it. On the other end of the
process the automounter unmounts the volume, then destroys the folder.
It is important to understand this because if a folder gets created
in /Volumes outside of the automounter's control (ie: you just
create it yourself), or somehow one of these folders somehow does
not get removed when it should (automounter crashes), then there is
no process that is going to go back and erase them, the will just
sit there. The automounter will rename mounts to get around them,
and you will continue to work, but with these (hopefully) empty
folders sitting there.
One of my clients once managed to work her way into a truly bizarre
setup. She kept her iPhoto library on an external drive. She kept
claiming that different sets of photos would randomly appear and
disappear. Upon examination, I discovered a physical folder in
Volumes with an iPhoto library in it, containing some of her photos.
When she plugged in the external drive, the physical folder was
silently overlayed by the drive of the same name, which had a
different iPhoto library on it containing the other set of photos.
When the drive was ejected, the physical folder again came to the
forefront, no worse for wear (that was the part that impressed me).
The substitution was complete and invisible, and it produced no
messages at all -- even iPhoto silently picked up on one library or
the other without comment, depending on whether the drive was
available or absent.
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