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lbeck

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My Mac Pro in my office serves as the main library for iTunes/Movies. Music etc. My macbook pro, 3 iPads, 2 iPhones and 2 apple tv's connect to it via the "shared library". It all works great, no issues.

I have my Mac Pro set up to shut down everyday at midnight. I like it to shut down everyday and start new in the morning. The problem is that it won't shut down if one shared drive is connected somewhere. And there is never an "active" user connected at midnight, it must be one of the iPads still on the "shared library" that cause this, or maybe the macbook pro. Doesn't matter, the bottom line is it would be impossible for me to have my wife, my kids and me constantly making sure we are disconnecting from the shared library. Every morning I come to my mac pro and it fails to shut down because a popup window is there telling me a "user is still connected ,would you like to disconnect to shut down"

So I need to figure out a way to automatically have any shared drive or user disconnect from the mac pro at like 11:55pm. Is there a way I can do this? Maybe with a script or automator?

Any help will be much appreciated!
 
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