Hi all. Me again, with another question, because apparently I do things with my Mac that nobody else does. LOL.
Prior to Ventura, I had configured my Mac to automatically mount a NAS drive at startup. I did this in system preferences, under either users or accounts. As I recall, it was almost identical to where (and how) you would configure an application to automatically start at login.
Now I'm on Ventura, and I'm aware that login items are now under system settings, general. And when I go there, I see all the apps I've configured to launch at login.
However, the item that automatically mounts my NAS drive is not listed.
I want to remove it, as I no longer want this drive mounted at login, but I can't find this item listed anywhere in system settings, at least nowhere that I've looked. Web searches turn up several articles about how to mount NAS drives, but none describe how to delete them.
I know this is outside normal usage, but the AppleVis community is a knowledgeable crowd, and I hope one of you can help. Thanks in advance.
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Some ideas
I'm not sure, but you may be able to stop the drive from automatically mounting in Finder after login by removing the disk password from your keychain in Keychain Access. Another thing to try is to deselect the "External disks" and "connected servers" checkboxes in Finder Settings > General. This should at least stop it from showing on the Desktop.
HTH
Keychain
Thanks, Tyler. I learned to manage my passwords with the Keychain app, which I had never even opened before. I deleted the keychain file for the mounted drive and rebooted. End of problem.
I found a similar issue discussed in one of the Apple Support forums. The original poster had a network mount listed as a background task in Login Items and was unable to remove it. But this was pre-Ventura. Upgrading to Ventura moved my network mount somewhere else. It would be nice to clean that up, but removing the keychain file is good enough for now.