Mount external Drive & Start iPhoto

[rosenkrieger]

I have an external drive which has my iPhoto and iTunes library, since I do not need it all the time I wanted to create a workflow that...

 

Mounts external Drive

Starts iPhoto

 

Since the mounting of the drive takes a few seconds I need to delay the start of iPhoto so that the drive is mounted and it will find the library there.

 

I tried the following:

 

do shell script "diskutil mount /dev/disk4s2"
delay 30
tell application "iPhoto" to activate

 

I had it saved as a "osascript"

 

For some weird reason it does not work. It actually WAITS 30 seconds THEN mounts the drive. I am a script noob I can just imagine that the delay 30 is interpreted for the mounting and not the start of iPhoto.

 

 

[rosenkrieger]

Thanks to @gdgtsDE on Twitter I got it fixed...

 

The Solution

 

do shell script "diskutil mount /dev/disk4s2"
delay 60
do shell script "open -a iPhoto"