Hi,
as I just have to copy about 500 DVDs (UDF, movies, but not commercial disks, no DRM) to an external HD I thought this could be made easier with a script.
How I do it now is putting in a DVD, dragging and dropping (while holding down the option key) to the external HD, wait, check if it’s done and eject. What would be better is iTunes-like behavior of the finder: Putting in a DVD, finder copies automatically and ejects the disk when done. This would free me from the manual copying AND I wouldn’t have to check if it’s done, because I would hear and see the disc eject.
I found a script on Apples discussion forum, but it doesn’t work yet … this is what I have so far:
on adding folder items to volumesFolder after receiving theDisk
delay 5 --This is to allow time to properly mount the disc. It may not be needed
try
--get the name of the folder
set theVolume to item 2 of theDisk
set diskName to (name of theVolume as string)
if (do shell script "diskutil info /dev/disk2") contains diskName then
--It appears to be an optical disk
--add something here to copy to the disk. For example:
tell application "Finder"
duplicate disk diskName to "Volumes:FILME:"
--Eject the disk
eject disk diskName
end tell
end if
on error msg
tell application "Finder"
activate
display dialog msg
end tell
end try
return 0
end adding folder items to
What I get are errors like this one:
Can’t make name of alias “MYMOVIE:” into type string.
So, the part where it tries to get the name of the DVD doesn’t work … any ideas or suggestions?
