So far I've been using the following AppleScript to eject all external drives at once conveniently using a shortcut:
tell application "Finder"
eject (every disk)
end tell
This script is is stored in /Library/Scripts
and I have assigned a shortcut to trigger it in FastScripts.
But there's one problem. When you have Time Machine Backups enabled, OS X mounts a virtual MobileBackups
volume in /Volumes
to store local snapshots. This volume will be ejected alongside all the physical external volumes. I want to avoid this as this will stop local snapshots from being made (until it's mounted again at next login).
Best Answer
This AppleScript code:
ejects all mounted disks except when named
MobileBackups
, that is,/Volumes/MobileBackups
.