I've been trying to find a way to automate the process of clicking the "Ignore" button on the "unreadable disk" dialogue that appears when an unrecognized disk is connected to a Mac running macOS 12 or newer:
(In this case I have some drives that I need to ignore due to using them in another way with a virtual machine.)
My goal is to prevent manual intervention each time this dialog appears (on reboot) and have the "Ignore" button clicked automatically.
I've attempted to use AppleScript and System Events to target the specific dialogues and button, but so far, I've been unsuccessful in detecting the dialog and interacting with it. It seems that the unreadable disk dialogue is not accessible through the standard AppleScript/System Events methods.
Here's what I've tried so far:
- Using AppleScript to target windows and buttons within the Finder process:
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Finder"
set allWindows to every window
repeat with currentWindow in allWindows
set windowName to name of currentWindow as string
log "Window: " & windowName
set allButtons to every button of currentWindow
repeat with currentButton in allButtons
log " Button: " & name of currentButton
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
end tell
- Using AppleScript to target dialogues and buttons within the Finder process:
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Finder"
set allUIElements to every UI element
repeat with currentUIElement in allUIElements
set elementType to role of currentUIElement as string
set elementName to name of currentUIElement as string
log "UI Element: " & elementType & " - " & elementName
if elementType is "AXDialog" then
set allButtons to every button of currentUIElement
repeat with currentButton in allButtons
log " Button: " & name of currentButton
end repeat
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
- Using AppleScript to target UI elements with specific roles, such as "AXWindow", within the Finder process:
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Finder"
set allUIElements to every UI element
repeat with currentUIElement in allUIElements
set elementType to role of currentUIElement as string
set elementName to name of currentUIElement as string
log "UI Element: " & elementType & " - " & elementName
if elementType is "AXWindow" then
set allButtons to every button of currentUIElement
repeat with currentButton in allButtons
log " Button: " & name of currentButton
end repeat
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
None of these approaches have successfully detected the unreadable disk dialogue(s) or allowed me to interact with the "Ignore" button.
I would appreciate any suggestions or insights on how to automate both the process of identifying the appropriate window and button and the actual process of clicking the "Ignore" button.
Are there alternative methods or tools that you would recommend? Has anyone encountered a similar issue and found a solution?
tell application "System Events" to click at {230, 400}
and it should return some info you can use in your script. I don't run your OS so I'll leave it at that but hopefully this gives you something.fstab
to not mount them.