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Eject Disk Image at logout with AppleScipt?
I would like to know how to use AppleScript to write a script that automatically ejects a disk image whenever the user logs out of their account.
This script would be the complementary inverse to a ...
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How can I automatically run an AppleScript on shutdown or logout?
I am more used to the Javascript style event handlers,
but is there a similar thing in applescript that listens to system events like logout or shutdown to execute code
or is there a way to have an ...
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Is it necessary to eject external drives before logging out, restarting, or shutting down?
Is it necessary or recommended practice to eject external drives before logging out, restarting, or shutting down? (The drives are not being unplugged.)
BTW, I am aware that I need to eject my ...
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How can I add login and logout sounds to OS X 10.8.x?
I would like to add login and logout sounds to my Mac. How can I do this?
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Fast user switching: how to prevent volumes from being unmounted?
I have a volume mounted. If I switch to another user, this volume gets dismounted. The problem is that I want this volume to be available for every user (but putting it in their login items is not the ...
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Keeping a disk image mounted after logout
Is there a way not to automatically unmount a mounted disk image after a logout? I'd like to have it already mounted when I log in the next time but I don't need to always mount it at login (so ...
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Will a Perl script still run after I log out of my user account?
I have started a Perl script from the terminal that runs in the background:
>perl myScript.pl &
If I logout, will it stop my script from running?
Thanks!
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Is there a way to absolutely force a Log Out, Shut Down, or Restart with open tabs and unsaved documents?
I could not find any relatively simple way to log out of a public use Mac quickly with many tabs open and unsaved document in the background without resorting to sudo shutdown -h now.
The reason I ...
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MacBook Pro 3,1 (2007), running 10.6.8, sudden logout, window_server crash
I have a 2007 MacBook Pro 3,1. The logic board, graphics card, and hard disk were replaced in October 2009.
Sometime in the last few months the machine began to 'spontaneously logout' - I'll be ...
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How can I prevent accidentally quitting an application?
I use Adium, but if I set a "Quit Confirmation" in the advanced preferences, it cancels log out. If I don't, it is way too easy to quit it, since it gets focused between apps sometimes.
Is there any ...
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Can I remove the “Log Out” item from the Apple menu?
Is it possible to remove "Log Out" from the Apple Menu? I know there used to be a tool that let you customize the Apple Menu (can't remember the name) but I doubt it's still working on Lion.
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Macbook randomly logging me off
Every so often, mostly during what appears to be more-intense-than-usual processing, the computer quits all apps, logs me out, and returns to the login screen. I usually get the translucent spinning ...
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How can I automatically log out the guest account after a period of inactivity?
As part of a kiosk system, I have set up a Guest account on a Mac OS X Snow Leopard computer. This account is cleared every time someone logs off the computer. However, plenty of people don't. Is ...
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Make a script/app run on logout
We all know that Mac OS X has the very useful Login Items functionality which lets you, among other things, set up apps/scripts to run when you log in.
I'm looking for a way to setup a list of ...
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Log out other user w/o first switching to that user
My wife use separate accounts and quick user switching on a MBP running 10.6. Sometimes I want to log her out to free up some RAM, but I'd like to avoid logging in as her, logging out, then logging ...
