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Automount external hard drive on Mac

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Mar 15, 20268682 views
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I have an external drive plugged in to my MacPro via eSATA. At the moment, the disk only mounts if I log in. Since I am using the computer remotely, this is annoying since I have to open up VNC, log in, and log back out. Is there a way to have external drives automatically mount without user log in?

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Fix for: Automount external hard drive on Mac

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I found a preference that might do the trick: In a variation using a boolean value (which should be more accurate): You can do the same through Property List editor (if you have it installed): … and set it manually as a boolean: However, and I'm sor…

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