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THANK YOU!
I've been racking my brain for the past few days. I recently started using DeskSaver at login to manage my desktop screensaver feature (which I love, by the way). But when I popped in TurboTax the other day, it spit right back out. DVDs and other CDs did the same thing. I tried every key word search I could think of at Apple and here to no avail. I was going to go home this afternoon and call Apple. But I'm almost positive this is my problem- I'll go home and give it a try!
THANK YOU!
The weird thing is that this 'problem' (or 'feature') does not happen to everyone. I'm running DeskSaver right now and can mount network file servers, CD-ROMs, audio CDs, and DVDs without any problem.
There is a paragraph in the DeskSaver help about this, but I guess that's not enough. I'll put the info in a more prominent place in the next version (1.1 will be out any day now).
BTW, jecwobble -- Thanks for using DeskSaver! I was completely surprised to see that someone was!
passwords?
Do you, by chance, have a password on your screensaver or not?
passwords?
I haven't been having this problem at all. I am using xBack for my screensaver desktop.
passwords? YES
Now that you mention it, I do. I'll log on as my son (no password) and set up DeskSaver and give it another try. I looked at the console.log file and only found this line:
Feb 6 05:17:31 iMac /sbin/autodiskmount[198]: disk2s1s2 hfs no
no TurboTax Deluxe Mac 2002 [not mounted]
I'm unfamiliar with autodiskmount (not quite a year old in UNIX terms), so I have no idea what the two "no"s are about, but I'll bet they are significant. I'll compare the log without DeskSaver running on my account, as well as with it running on my son's account.
passwords?
I just did a highly scientific experiment:
passwords?
I agree, this is certainly a security feature. With a password protected screensaver you really would not want people to be able to insert and eject removable media. As somebody mentioned earlier, automounting could be used to kill the password protected screen saver. Similarly, without this feature, somebody could come up to your password protected computer, press the F12 key to eject your cd, then walk away with your precious data. This security feature isn't necessary when running a screen saver in background mode, but for now it appears that we have to choose between a password protected screen saver and pretty desktop effects.
You're welcome.
I realize I could probably write an AppleScript to automate the CLI stuff necessary for this, but I certainly appreciate your efforts so I don't have to. I especially like the 'niceness' feature. |
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