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Authored by: ultimanine on Mar 10, '03 09:54:37PM

Problem here...

When I drag a .dmg file onto DropMount, it opens and mounts the disk image almost immediately.

When I tell all .dmg files to open with DropMount, then double click on a .dmg file, DropMount simply hangs with the beach ball cursor.

Any ideas? Running 10.2.4.

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Try opening the console...
Authored by: noworryz on Mar 11, '03 12:08:50PM

Open the console before you double-click and see if there is any information.

It's always worth trying the following: boot from the OS X Install CD, select "Open Disk Utility..." from the Installer menu, click on "Repair Disk Permissions" in the First Aid tab, and wait a half-hour or so. This often fixes system flakiness.

Also, if you double-click on an alias to a file/folder on an unmounted volume, the Finder often hangs. This has nothing to do with your application -- it is a system bug that has been around for a long time. The March security update seems to have reduced, but not eliminated, the problem.

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Try opening the console...
Authored by: mnewman on Jul 07, '03 11:38:47PM

Sorry to be posting so late on this hint and sorry that I'm not cleverer than I am, but:

This script did not work for me as written. It works OK if I remove the escaped quotes in the second line. It also works OK from the command line or as a drag-and-drop application if I leave the quotes unescaped. Here's what the console output looks like either way when I try to double click on a .dmg file:

/usr/bin/hdid: "/"/Users/mnewman/Desktop/PTHClock.app.dmg"" unrecognized: No such file or directory


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Another possibility...
Authored by: noworryz on Mar 12, '03 09:37:11PM

Another possibility is that you've left other applications, created with DropScript, sitting around on your disk, which your system has confused with your DropMount application. Use the following steps to make your application unique, as far as LaunchServices are concerned.

Control-click on your application, select "Show package contents," and double-click on the Contents folder. Discard the PkgInfo file. Select the Info.plist file and do a Command-I to Get Info. Reveal the "Ownership & Permissions" section and chose "Read & Write" for owner access. Close the Get Info Window.

Double click on the Info.plist file to run Property List Editor. Reveal the "Root" list and make the values for CFBundleIdentifier and CFBundleSignature something unique and unusual. Close and save.

Go to the terminal and delete these caches:


sudo rm /Library/Caches/*
sudo rm /System/Library/Caches/*

Restart your computer. Do a "Get Info" on a .dmg file, reveal the "Open with" section, select Other... from the pull-down menu, and select your DropMount application in the file browser. Click on the "use this application to open all documents like this" button. Close the Get Info window. Now try double-clicking on a .dmg file.

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