Stop finder popups on startup

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mattham

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Hello,
I have a mac mini (10.3.9) set up for my 2 daughters (aged 3 & 5). To stop the whole "game cd roundabout" I have made images of their game cd's on the hard drive & mount them on start up using their users startup items list. I have figured out how to stop them from showing icons on the desktop but is there a way to stop finder automatically opening a separate window for every disk it mounts. It means closing 6 finder windows every time the mini boots up.

On the upside it has taught them excellent mouse control :-)


Matt :-)
 
The same thing happens to me. Every-time I startup, all the finder windows that I had open last boot pop back up. A faster way to close all the windows is to press command-W repeatedly, but I haven't found a sure-fire solution.
 
You can close all the Finder windows by holding down Option as you close a single window. This works using the mouse, the File menu, or the keyboard (i.e., command-option-W). It also works in all applications, not just the Finder.

Probably not the solution you were going for, of course, but I thought it was worth mentioning after reading Eric's comment about pressing command-W repeatedly.

I don't think there's any way to stop the Finder from remembering which windows were open (which is kind of strange, really, since it's the only application that exhibits this behavior). But I'm not sure if that's the problem here. I think the problem might be that the disk images are set to auto-open when mounted, the same way CDs can be. I think the only way around that would be to make the disk images read/write (I assume they're read-only), mount them, close the window, and then unmount them.

You can convert DMGs using Disk Utility. Might be more trouble than it's worth, though. It might also have some nasty side-effects, depending on the discs used (I know a bootable disk image won't retain its bootability after mounting if it's read/write, for example).
 
Hey Thanks everyone for the input.
After some more testing ie: copying the .cdr image to the desktop & manually double clicking to mount it, I found that finder did not automatically open!! this led me to the thinking that it must be something to do with having them in the users start-up list to mount them automatically when the user logged in. the way around this?? - apple script!!!

do shell script ("hdiutil mount /images/dd.cdr")
do shell script ("hdiutil mount /images/da.cdr")
do shell script ("hdiutil mount /images/Mermaid.cdr")
do shell script ("hdiutil mount /images/nemo.cdr")
do shell script ("hdiutil mount /images/wiggles.cdr")

get rid of all the .cdr images from the start-up items & put just the script in there & it works like a treat. All .cdr images mount on login & not a finder window in sight.

Thanks Again.

Matt :-)

PS - that was my first apple script too - boy did that take some googling :-)
 
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