On Feb 5, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Dan Soneson wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have a rather odd problem using rev applications on Mac OSX
Leopard, connecting to a server on my network. I connect to a server
with an Applescript command: do theScript as Applescript. I can do
this just fine. But if I unmount the server by dragging it's icon
to the trash, then remount from within Rev eventually Rev reads the
name of the server differently. Let's say the name of the server is
"George". I can connect to "George" several times, but eventually
Rev or Leopard appends a digit to the name of the mounted volume.
Originally, the path to file "Textfile.txt" on the server named
"George" will be "/Volumes/George/Textfile.txt" However, after a few
connections (don't know how many or exactly when this happens), the
path to the file becomes "/Volumes/George-1/Textfile.txt". Oddly
enough, the icon on the desktop for the volume is still "George".
However, any reference to the file "Textfile.txt" from within Rev
now will fail, since Rev reads the connection as "/Volumes/George-1/
Textfile.txt" but is still looking for "/Volumes/George/
Textfile.txt"! This gets somewhat frustrating, since I never know
when it will happen, and once it does, I can no longer transfer
files back and forth between the server and the computer.
Has anyone seen this behavior? Do you have a workaround or a
suggestion to get around this problem? I never had the problem
working with pre-Leopard operating systems on the Mac, but it is now
cropping up since all our computers in a lab are now running Leopard.
Another issue may be that the physical server (now running OSX Snow
Leopard) has several share points, each of which may be mounted as
individual volumes, one of which is the aforementioned "George".
Mounting and unmounting several of these share points may bring
about the re-numbering issue. Rebooting the individual computer
doesn't seem to help either.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Dan,
Maybe not a complete answer, but a clue: When OS X mounts volumes with
the same name the way it keeps them separate in the Volumes list is by
appending a number to the duplicate name. I have sometimes seen cases
where the OS somehow doesn't get the message that a volume was
ejected, and if it is remounted the volume name appears with a number
appended.
Open the terminal and type 'ls /Volumes' to see a list of all mounted
volumes.
Maybe what you need to do is check for the existence of the volume
before you try to mount it?
Regards,
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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