Comments on: Auto-Detect Mounted Volumes

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:42:38 +0000

Hi All. I’m bumping this months later because for whatever reason, iPhoto no longer sees my CF cards when I mount them and automatically starts importing my pictures, but the Finder still sees it just fine. So I’m trying to create a simple action to essentially re-create this previous behavior. (FWIW, it stopped working upon a hard drive failure and subsequent fresh install of Leopard on a new hard drive.) This tip is very helpful and gets me much of the way there, but I’m hoping there’s some way to essentially only run the workflow/action when my CF cards are mounted, not when any device is mounted. I am, by the way, completely new to Automator, so any mind-expanding ideas, however obvious to the initiated, are welcome! Thanks for the help!

By: bala

bala — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:45:49 +0000

I was just wondering, as you mentioned in the last line any connected device would trigger this workflow, is it possible to narrow it down to a particular drive based on the drive name/label because i want to use this workflow to copy files to a USB hard drive and it shouldn’t happen when i plugin a USB memory stick!

By: robert huttinger

robert huttinger — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:30:51 +0000

Thanks alot! by the wayyou cant put the plug-in in the ipod it has to be in '/Volumes/'

cheers! bo

By: Mac Carter

Mac Carter — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:22:09 +0000

I’m looking for a way to simply mount external hard drives on another computer on a network. Is there an automator script that will activate the “GO” Finder command?

By: iMax

iMax — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:14:31 +0000

T. Payton, I have similar problem too! Do you have any ideas for now?

By: Sylvester

Sylvester — Sat, 12 May 2007 19:38:20 +0000

Thanks for this tip. For a while now I have wanted a copy operation to execute when I insert a flash drive. The drive will contain files I need to take to work, This is a good way to make sure I always have the most recent version.

By: Xavier Jacome

Xavier Jacome — Thu, 10 May 2007 22:35:55 +0000

I am looking for a workflow that allow me to download the photos to a specific folder , then create a ivew catalog with that folder to select and rename files, and then open the selected images in Adobe Lightroom to be developed. Do you know where can I find this kind of workflow? I was trying imphoto but only download the files to the pictures file, when I need to direct which file. I will apreciate any information. Thank you.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:24:48 +0000

T- See my forum posting.