Automount network drive when running App. How do I stop it?

[bugfaceuk]

You know, there are times I'd love to do this. Basically I have an application (parallels) that automounts the fileserver (afp) on my home network when I run it. Cool. Unless I'm not on my home network when parallels has to sit there bounching for 10 minutes waiting to hear back from OS-X that it can't mount the drive.

So, I uninstall Parallels. Re-install. Start new Parallels. It mounts the flippin drive.

So in my ignorance I am assuming OS-X is doing it. How do I stop it? I've nuked the preferences files for Parallels. No change. It's not using a file on that drive, and as far as I know never has. Why oh Why?

And how did I set up this association between an application and mounting something? It would be a good trick if I knew what I'd done!

Thanks in advance folks. 😕

 

[jeremy.king]

you need to delete the hidden .parallels_settings file in your home folder
http://forums.parallels.com/showpost.php?p=57441&postcount=12

 

[bugfaceuk]

Thank you so much for pointing that out, I was very excited for a while as that's exactly my problem. However, for me deleting the file did nothing.

I'll do a tour of the OS looking any other little file it might be hiding... any other hints very gratefully accepted.

Thanks again, that really sounded exactly the problem.

 

[jeremy.king]

You also deleted all the preferences (and pref folders) associated with Parallels?

 

[bugfaceuk]

Yes I had, but I have infact solved it (at last!).

Finally gave up with looking myself and hit the shell, and found this folder:

/Users/<<username>>/Documents/.parallels-vm-directory/

Which has links to files on different drives including I presume a single miss clicked and ran a VM from my network backup drive at some point, and the soft-link was causing the auto-mount.

Thanks for you help, and I hope this helps someone else at some point.