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Unmount Volumes is a preference pane and associated startup item to allow an admin user to specify disk volumes that should not be mounted at boot time. This is useful if you have backup volumes that you want to make sure are at least a little more difficult to accidentally write to, or if you want to hide them from other users of your computer.
What's New
Version 1.0.9:
Update to improve reliability with external drive volumes
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| Downloads:1,214 |
| Version Downloads:1,043 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Demo |
| Date:01 Aug 2009 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $10.00 |
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Unmount Volumes is a preference pane and associated startup item to allow an admin user to specify disk volumes that should not be mounted at boot time. This is useful if you have backup volumes that you want to make sure are at least a little more difficult to accidentally write to, or if you want to hide them from other users of your computer.
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As a system tester and designer I have to reboot often and having to unmount a large number of partitions each time is very time consuming.
This app saves me a lot of time, but more importantly... it saves me a lot of hair pulling.
I had been looking for something like this for years. This is the only app that I know that does this in the background so I don't have to think about it.
In the past I've found aliases that sometimes targeted incorrectly and save a file to a backup or a menu that has listed a folder on my backup drive. With this app unmounting my backups there is no chance I will accidentally save a file to a backup only to then over-write it on the next backup.
Losing critical data is definitely not a joke to me.
As with any app... if you don't need it... it's not worth the money... if you do... it is.
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Best regards,
Titus R.
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Ronl reviewed on 28 Feb 2011
Saves time not having to always manually unmount my numerous partitions and drives. You can designate just the ones you don't want to mount.
Comforting to know I haven't accidentally forgotten to unmount a drive and that an alias has retargeted and saved a file to a backup that will be overwritten. This has happened many times in the past when using some menu apps.
There's also a noticeable decrease in boot times since my numerous partitions/drives are not having to mount.
Also this app does not affect being able to use your startup keys (e.g. Option key to choose any of your connected drives) since Unmount Volumes loads later in the boot process).
Nice job... thanks for the app!