Autorun finder when plugging in USB Stick

[Vkrati]

Hi,

Just wondering if there is any setting somewhere, somehow. It probably hardly improves my productivity, but just wondering...

I remember this was proposed to you when you plugged in a USB-stick in Windows. Wonder if its also possible here...

Thanks in advance!

 

[geoffreak]

No such thing as true "autorun" in Mac OSX.

 

[xUKHCx]

Do Something When will allow you to set up a rule to d something when your drive is mounted.

 

[Vkrati]

Hi,

fist of all, thank you for all replies alredy. Do Something When might indeed seem like a solution. I tried to install it though, and apparently its a .pkg file. Point is, i try to give freeware, of any kind, no admin permissions. (Maybe some heritage i still have from when i was into that other operating system...) I assume that, as i feared already actually, it is always necessary for 3rd party software, to get admin rights.

So question is whether this is really safe, or if there are maybe some other possibilities, through OSX itself.

Thanks though!

 

[xUKHCx]

So question is whether this is really safe, or if there are maybe some other possibilities, through OSX itself.

Technically you don't have to give it your user name and password. If you right click on the .pkg - Show Package Contents and then through Contents you can then double click on "Archive.pax.gz" which will decompress and a window will open up with the DSW.prefPane in it. Then you can double click on that to install. System Preferences will ask for username and password if you want to install it for all users on your system but installing it for yourself it wont.

You could attach a folder action to the /Volumes folder which will run a script when something is added to that folder. You can then customise the script to do some quite powerful things

For example with a USB drive called Test this script will launch Safari.

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
	if (added_items as string) contains "Test" then
		tell application "Safari" to launch
	end if
end adding folder items to

To attach a folder action to a folder first you have to have the folder shown in Finder.

For /Volumes the easiest way is to get a normal Finder window open and Press cmd+shift+g then type "/Volumes" without quotes

Then enable folder actions:



And attach the script to the folder:




You might also be able to achieve something similar using a daemon but that is an area I have no idea about.

 

[Vkrati]

Thanks a lot!

 

[3bs]

How do I uninstall Do Something When?