Is there a way to stop drives spinning?

[Brian Wengrofsky]

I'd love to use this utility, but at some stage would like to revert back to the default mode.  Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,

Brian

[Jon Stovell]

Yes. That's what the "Let a drive sleep" button does.

[Brian Wengrofsky]

Ok!  I wanted to make sure launching the app itself wouldn't cause any irreversible changes.  Thx!

[Jon Stovell]

Good heavens, no. The user initiates and controls any and all changes.

[Brian Wengrofsky]

Brilliant little app.  Game changer for the project I'm working on.  I'll pay it forward!

[Jon Stovell]

Glad to hear it. :)

[Jonathan Ojeda]

For some reason, when I try I get the following error:


"Can't get text item 2 of "Volumes/FB/.keepThisDriveSpinning".  Diagnostic came back fine with app working correctly. Any idea?

[Jon Stovell]

Sounds like the content of the launch agent for the drive has become malformed somehow. At any rate, there are two ways that you can manually remove one of the Keep Drive Spinning launch agents.

Option 1: Using Finder

1. Navigate to ~/Library/LaunchAgents (where ~ represents your home folder). By default, your user Library folder is hidden, but you can get to it in Finder using the Go ▸ Go to Folder... menu item and entering "~/Library/LaunchAgents" in the dialog box.
2. In the LaunchAgents folder, find info.stovell.KeepDriveSpinning.FB.plist and delete it.
   
3. Log out and then log back in.

Option 2: Using Terminal

1. Open Terminal.app
2. Enter this command and press return: launchctl list | grep stovell
3. In the result list, look for the name of the launch agent you want to remove. It will probably be info.stovell.KeepDriveSpinning.FB
4. Using the exact name of the launch agent you found in step 3, enter this command and press return: launchctl unload -w info.stovell.KeepDriveSpinning.FB
5. Enter this command and press return: rm ~/Library/LaunchAgents/info.stovell.KeepDriveSpinning.FB.plist

All done.