Sidebar mounted disks

[jarednichols]

Hi-

Are people having problems with disk images not being removed from users' sidebars when they're done deploying? They're not mounted but stick in the sidebar. The only way to get rid of it seems to be by dragging it off the sidebar. I'd like to have no evidence that I was there :)

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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

[#2]

I've actually reported this to JAMF and they told me that it is an issue with the Finder not refreshing the Sidebar cache. I've just been living with it, but I wonder if there is a command line way to have the sidebar reload the cache. Also, I'm not sure exactly how they are mounting the disks, I would assume with the mount command launched from the jamf binary because why wouldn't they just use the tools already there. Anyway, the mount command has a "-nobrowse" option which hides the mounted item from the finder completely. I think this would be a good option because I don't even want users to see the mounted disk anywhere.

Ryan Harter
UW - Stevens Point
Workstation Developer
715.346.2716
Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

[tlarkin]

Eh, you could try the good old killall finder as a post command after a
package is installed. Not sure how that would affect the end user,
could get interesting though for sure!

[#4]

I've tried this before and it does seem to work, but that's some scary stuff if a user is logged in. I can only imagine a user copying a file for backup and you kill the finder mid stream.

Ryan Harter
UW - Stevens Point
Workstation Developer
715.346.2716
Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

[ernstcs]

I've seen this happen with software installs or updates from policies. The mounted disk image still shows in the left part of the finder window.

Haven't seen if this has carried over into 10.5.7 yet.

Craig E

[tlarkin]

I've seen it for sure, and it is a small problem I have just been living
with since I have had other bigger problems to deal with.