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Faster, better disk image mounting via a script
Authored by: bluehz on Mar 11, '03 12:38:18AM

There is also a GUI app released last week called "Mount" that claimed faster disk mounting. I was skeptical, but it works as advertised. Also has option to auto-accepts aggrement screens. Great stuff!

http://mount.houchin.us/



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Just a few bugs in V1.0
Authored by: noworryz on Mar 11, '03 01:21:44PM

Fast and easy. However, Mount v1.0 doesn't properly quit after mounting an image.

The preferences dialog is unclear: it has two checkboxes, "Stay open after mounting image" and "Hide application after mounting image." None of the four combinations (only three of which are valid) seem to get it to quit.

The author also didn't test it with encrypted images -- it generates exceptions if the "Cancel" button is pressed in the password dialog. Maybe version 1.1 will fix these problems.

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Just a few bugs in V1.0
Authored by: houchin on Mar 12, '03 01:22:24AM

Hi, This is the guy who wrote Mount.app. 1.0.1 is due out any day. I'm just waiting for the two guys that helped with the French and German localization to double check the final version.

1.0.1 fixes the quitting bug (which was a really stupid error caused by a rewrite of a portion of the license display code), and it also fixed it so that if you cancel the password request, you don't get an error. There are several other improvements and tweaks as well.



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Faster, better disk image mounting via a script
Authored by: houchin on Mar 12, '03 01:33:03AM

Mount.app is really just yet another GUI to /usr/bin/hdid. The reasons I wrote it were:

- I wanted something that would stay open (I'm too impatient to wait for an app to start every time I want to mount an image
- I wanted something that handled license agreements in such a way that I was presented the agreement
- I wanted to learn Cocoa

(In some ways I regret adding the capability to automatically accept license agreements. Despite the warnings, I fear that someday someone is going to get in trouble because there were terms in the agreement that they don't like, but agreed to anyway without seeing them)

(1.0.1 is due out any day that fixes the couple bugs that have been mentioned)



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