Finding the name of a USB volume

[Richard Gaskin]

tsj wrote:
> Richard - I haven't got an unnamed USB drive handy to test this with but
> what does the volumes function return when one is mounted? Does this give
> you the expected "untitled" (or "untitled 1" etc)?
>
> If so, you could iterate through the listed volumes using a couple of
> applescripts to determine whether the drive was local (false if it's a
> network drive) ejectable (false if it's internal) and then if you get two
> false results you can attempt to open a file on the volume. If that gives
> you an error then the drive is write protected. If it passes all tests then
> you're left (presumably) with an external USB or Firewire drive.
>
> The relevant applescript snippets are...
>
> tell application "System Events" to get the local volume of disk
> [volumepath]
>
> tell application "System Events" to get the ejectable of disk [volumepath]
>
> Would that do it?

Works a treat!  And simpler than parsing the XML data from system_profiler.

Thanks!

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