Not opening window of mounted disk image
I have created disk images of my CDs with Disk Utility and have them mounted on startup by having them in my Login Items. But each .dmg after mounting opens the Finder window for that mounted disk. I do not want the window opened. Only the disk image mounted. What did I do wrong? Thanks.
Dual G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) Mirror dual G4, iBook 12, iBook 14, Beige G3
Open the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and paste in the following:
tell application "Finder"
delay 1--time in seconds
close every window
end tell
To close a specified number of windows:
tell application "Finder"
delay 1--time in seconds
repeat 1
close window 1
end repeat
end tell
In either case, save the script as an application and add it to the list of login items for your account. The delay in the second line of the script may need to be increased.
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