Missing mounted disk image!

[gingerpop]

Someone please help. This is bugging me no end..

I downloaded the World Music Jam Pack sampler from .Mac recently. It comes as a Jam_Pack_Sampler_World_Music.dmg file. After downloading it, I double clicked on it, but surprisingly, no disc was mounted. For some reason, I didn't think about it too much, and instead shut down the computer. When I next used my computer, I double clicked on the .dmg file again. Again, no disc was mounted. I thought something was wrong with the file.

So I shifted the .dmg file to the trash. And when I tried to empty trash, I got the message 'The operation cannot be completed because the item "Jam_Pack_Sampler_World_Music.dmg" is in use'. This made me more suspicious.

I booted up File Buddy's Get Info feature to take a look at my files. As I suspected, I found the mounted disc image in File Buddy, in the very highest hierachy of files, together with the Network and my Harddisk. It has the icon of a volume, and the name is Jam Pack Sampler World Music. I click on it to get info, and there are files in it, showing that it's real and exists. However, it can't be found in my Finder window, and I can't dismount it! I tried to locate it's location using File Buddy, using the 'Show' command, but this only pulls up an arbitrary Finder window without the volume in sight.

Please help!

 

[billbaloney]

NOTE: If the command line work below makes you nervous, download OnyX and run the "Cleaning" utility, making sure to check "System Caches". Then restart. This may solve the problem.

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The Finder window may not be showing you everything. A disk image that's mounted should be in /Volumes, not in / (the top-level directory).

Try this and see if you can find it.

1. Open /Utilities/Terminal.app
2. At the command prompt, type 'ls -l /' (remove single quotes)
3. Type 'ls -l /Volumes'

Do you see the disk image mounted in either directory?

If you see "/Volumes/Jam Pack Sampler World Music", or whatever it's called, you can try to unmount it from the command line like this:

sudo umount "/Volumes/Jam Pack Sampler World Music"
(Enter your password when prompted; this assumes you have administrative permissions on your machine.)

The quotes are necessary to encase a file name that contains spaces or certain other characters.

If you don't see the mounted image in either the root (/) or volume (/Volumes) directory, you can try to force delete the disk image from the trash, again from the command line:

rm -f ~/.Trash/Jam_Pack_Sampler_World_Music.dmg

 

[gingerpop]

Hey! Thanks for the ultra quick reply..

After the post I was fiddling around with FileBuddy somemore, and happened to, out of desperation, try the "Open" function on the volume that I could see in the top level directory of FileBuddy (but which I couldn't see in Finder).. Well, guess what? The volume appeared in my finder once I clicked "Open"!

I then proceeded to dismount it and delete the .dmg file from the thrash. Amazing stuff, this.

Looking through your reply, I'm sure it would have worked, too.. It's just too bad I didn't get a chance to put your knowledge to use! I have no qualms about messing around in the command line world! We only live once! Thanks so much..