Keyboard shortcut to mount eject drive

[JakeB80]

I have dual internal drives in my 2011 macbook and was wondering if there is anyway to have a keyboard shortcut to mount the drive and eject the extra drive. I found some scripts but I'm not real sure how to get them to run using shortcuts. I have made a couple shortcuts using automator for opening applications and such but wasn't sure if what I want to do is even possible.

 

[pm-r]

Try a search on:
keyboard shortcut to mount unmount a drive
and you should get all likes of hits and suggestions.
https://www.google.ca/search?client...F-8&gfe_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=gSQ7WrGUJu_e8AfL_LnoAg

One that might be just what you need or want is available here:
https://www.howtogeek.com/308929/how-to-quickly-unmount-external-drives-from-the-macos-menu-bar/




- Patrick
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[JakeB80]

Thanks for the reply. I was able to setup this as a shortcut

diskutil eject /Volumes/*

But I can't seem to figure out how to mount the drive.

 

[pm-r]

But I can't seem to figure out how to mount the drive.

I'd use the utility mentioned in the howtogeek link.

A simple click in the menu would suit me.




- Patrick
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[JakeB80]

Thanks you're right it works great.

Edit: Like I said the Semulov app worked great but for some reason it slowed everything down like opening finder, opening system preferences, etc.

I uninstalled it and everything went back to normal.

 

[pm-r]

Edit: Like I said the Semulov app worked great but for some reason it slowed everything down like opening finder, opening system preferences, etc.

OK, but that's unfortunate if it was working properly for you.

I don't suppose you happened to check Activity Monitor.app and see what resources it was using???




- Patrick
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[JakeB80]

Sorry I didn't check to see what resources it was using. But after some more searching I did find a script that worked for mounting the drive. I was able to use Automator to set it up and then applied some shortcuts so everything is working fine to mount and unmount the drive.

Thanks again for your help.

 

[pm-r]

Glad to hear you got it all working and don't be afraid to post the details for what you did, some other users may want to do the same thing at some point and would probably appreciate the effort.



- Patrick
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[JakeB80]

Sure.

This command in terminal showed the disk I needed mounted.

diskutil list

Which was "disk1s2" in my case so I opened Automator and choose run shell script with no input. Then I used "diskutil mount /dev/disk1s2" and saved it.

Then I did the same thing with Automator and used "diskutil eject /Volumes/* to eject the drive and saved it. Then went into keyboard shortcuts and chose "services' in the left column and at the bottom of the list was the commands I saved with Automator. I choose "add shortcut" and choose the keyboard shortcuts I wanted.

My apologies if it isn't very clear. If there are any questions please feel free to ask. I'll try to answer the best I can. This was all new to me also.

Also, one of the reasons I wanted to have this setup is I use the extra internal drive as a scratch disk for Photoshop and really just wanted the drive running for that. So the way I have it setup now is I used Automator to set it up that when I use keyboard shortcut to open Photoshop, it also mounts the drive, then when I close Photoshop with the keyboard shortcut it ejects the drive.