Mounting an Attached but Un-Mounted External Drive (Yes You Can!)

[DanThomas]

This may be obvious to others, but then again, it might not be.

Using the code I posted here:

MACROS: Mount Drive, Unmount Drive, Check if Drive is Mounted

##MACROS: Mount Drive, Unmount Drive, Check if Drive is Mounted External Drive Macros.v1.0.kmmacros (40.5 KB) ###PURPOSE: These 3 macros allow you to: Mount a drive (if it isn't already mounted). Unmount a drive (if it is mounted). Check to see if a drive is mounted. ##NOTE: If you want, instead of using these macros, you can just use the relevant actions, which I show along with the macros. ##Mount Drive if Needed (Sub-Macro) [image] ###Relevant actions: [image] if ! [[ -d "/Volume…

... you can create a macro to mount an external drive that is connected to your computer, but isn't mounted.

I used to use an application called "Mountain" for this, but now I've rolled my own.

FYI.

[cfriend]

Thank you! Very useful.

[NaOH]

Different than how yours is set up, I’ve long mounted attached volumes with a scheduled AppleScript since I would rather specify the times when Time Machine is run.

set theDisk to "Disk Name" do shell script "diskutil mountdiskutil list | awk ‘/ " & theDisk & " / {print $NF}’"

After Time Machine runs, another AppleScript unmounts the disk.

set theDisk to "Disk Name" do shell script "diskutil unmount " & quoted form of ("/Volumes/" & theDisk)

[DanThomas]

I think they both amount to pretty-much the same thing. I also use them for Time Machine.