Manipulating Devices

This task explains how to track available storage devices and their associated volumes.

Tracking Available Devices

NSWorkspace provides several methods for tracking the status of storage devices:

• To retrieve the names of local mounted volumes, use the mountedRemovableMedia and mountedLocalVolumePaths methods.

• To wait until new removable devices have been mounted and then retrieve their pathnames, use the mountNewRemovableMedia method.

Also, to retrieve the Finder display names for volumes, use NSFileManager’s displayNameAtPath: method.

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