Alternative to Mountain (mounts drives from Menubar)?

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For years I've been using an app called Mountain, which let's me mount/unmount drives from the menubar (example, if an external USB drive is connected but was previously unmounted, I can remount it quickly without having to go through Disk Utility). However, it has not been updated in a long time and apparently has been abandoned. It is this (presumably there will be no M1-native version forthcoming), along with the fact that I've never been able to get it to mount encrypted drives, that has me looking for a more modern alternative.

Any ideas? It's a hard thing to search for, as most of the results that come up have to do with apps that only UNMOUNT drives.

 

[TheRaven]

For years I've been using an app called Mountain, which let's me mount/unmount drives from the menubar (example, if an external USB drive is connected but was previously unmounted, I can remount it quickly without having to go through Disk Utility). However, it has not been updated in a long time and apparently has been abandoned. It is this (presumably there will be no M1-native version forthcoming), along with the fact that I've never been able to get it to mount encrypted drives, that has me looking for a more modern alternative.

Any ideas? It's a hard thing to search for, as most of the results that come up have to do with apps that only UNMOUNT drives.

I have always used AppleScript for this.

To mount a drive that is attached, but not mounted, make a new script with the Script Editor App:

tell application "Finder" to if not (disk "Your Disk Name" exists) then do shell script "diskutil mount " & last word of (do shell script "diskutil list | grep 'Your Disk Name'")

Save it as a script in the user script folder (UserName/Library/Scripts)

To unmount a disk use:

tell application "Finder" to if (disk "Your Disk Name" exists) then do shell script "diskutil unmount " & last word of (do shell script "diskutil list | grep 'Your Disk Name'")

Check the checkbox in the Script Editor Apps Preferences/General "Show Script menu in menu bar"

I'm not very fluent with AppleScript so I'm sure I found this on the web somewhere (many years ago).

I don't use encrypted disks so don't know if this will work with them.

Hope this helps.