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Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume?

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On 2015-02-22, rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> wrote:
> In article <cks8uoFq318U6@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-02-21, rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> wrote:
>> > In article <rijk-B54E8B.19042621022015@news.xs4all.nl>,
>> >  rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> wrote:
>> >
>> > […]
>> >
>> >> Since then, the cliet Mac keeps on insisting on mounting that remote 
>> >> volume.
>> >
>> > {sigh} Too smart for my own good. I had forgotten about an alias 
>> > pointing to the remote machine.
>> 
>> Aha! But where was this alias, that the system would want to resolve it
>> so often?
>
> In my home folder. But the problem was that it had slipped my mind that 
> it was used by Air Video Server. That turned out to be the app that 
> triggered the mount attempts.
>
> I had already tried quitting 'all' apps, thinking that something like 
> this might be the cause. But AVS had completely slipped my mind. (I only 
> use it to watch movies on my iPad while taking a bath, which I do maybe 
> 5 times a year.)

It's a little strange that lsof wouldn't have shown that AVS had that
file open. Perhaps you just missed it in the listing?

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AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> - 2015-02-21 19:04 +0100
  Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-21 20:12 +0000
  Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> - 2015-02-21 21:41 +0100
    Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-21 20:43 +0000
      Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> - 2015-02-22 02:51 +0100
        Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-22 15:39 +0000
          Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> - 2015-02-22 21:13 +0100
  Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-02-21 15:55 -0500

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