Comments on: Stop External Drives Slowing Down OS X (& Quicksilver)

By: Jono

Jono — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:54:50 +0000

I’ve tried it with some FireWire 800 drives I have under Snow Leopard and it worked fine.

Maybe you could open them up in Automator or Script Editor and try running them from there, or re-saving them?

By: macdary

macdary — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:50:11 +0000

Hi, I went here looking for something to mount/unmount my FW HDD but this scripts is not working on Snow, do you have some update for this? it will be appreciated. Thx!

By: Jono

Jono — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:21:12 +0000

They’re just Automator workflows saved as apps. Work fine on my Intel & PPC machines. You could try opening them up in Automator & resaving them.

By: steven kay

steven kay — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:18:26 +0000

good idea but it did not work on my imac 10,4,11 I see it is PPc Is it compatible with intel?

By: Jono

Jono — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:43:41 +0000

I wouldn't know how to do that. It might be possible with some AppleScript. You could try posting this question at Apple's AppleScript Forums. Some bright spark might be able to help you out.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:37:38 +0000

hello…this is great idea but my question is there a way to tell it which drive to mount and which ones not to mount…because i have different drives for different things…can you make one that will tell it say…

mount firewire hard drives…if named “External 300C” if not named “External 300C” unmount it..i dont know what to say…i would like certain drives to be on at certain times of the day type thing…is that even possible or does this just work for any and all drives connect thru FW or USB?

thank you
alex
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