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Idea #16169: unique behaviour for each external storage

Written by antalar the 3 Dec 08 at 08:21. Related project: Device Manager (gnome). Status: New
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As I understand, system could distinguish one external storage from another. So, I think it would be useful to set unique after-plugging-behaviour for each device.

For example, I use 4gb apacer flash only for backup. So the only thing I want to do with it is to run appropriate script and then unplug.
Another my USB device is my 2gb transcend pleer. Every time I plug it, I want only to sync contents of my ~/music/2pleer/ folder with it. So, may be you could find some solution (preferably GUI-based) for this?
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Written by antalar the 3 Dec 08 at 08:21.
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cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 3 Dec 08 at 16:43
This seems like a pretty advanced behavior to expose basic users to. Perhaps useful as an additional package (not default install).

How can we prevent complaints that 'It's confusing' or 'It did what I told it to...but I didn't really want that behavior this one time'?

(I just script it today - nobody to blame but me if it fails)

grigio wrote on the 3 Dec 08 at 18:29
You can already do it!

create an autorun.sh and put it in your media root

es. /media/backup/autorun.sh
with inside:

#!/bin/sh
python /opt/flyback/flyback.py

everytime you plug it the script will be executed


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