Quoth Russell Brown.....
>Thanks for the replies but I'm trying to disable the device popups
>globally.

<facepalm>

I is a idjit :-(

I already had:

>[Media][$i]
>enabled=false
>exclude=media/builtin-webbrowser,media/hdd_mounted,media/builtin-mycomputer,media/builtin-mynetworkplaces,media/floppy5_unmounted,media/cdrom_mounted,media/cdrom_unmounted,media/floppy_unmounted,media/hdd_unmounted

in my global kdesktoprc.  

In the melee I'd forgotten that we'd changed to encrypted media for the
backups as part of the great update project; so appending
"media/hdd_unmounted_encrypted" to the end of that line solved my
problem.

</facepalm>

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 Regards,
     Russell
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