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"Disk Not Ejected Properly": What It Means

28 points by speckx

by recursivedoubts

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I’m surprised apple hasn’t solved this in some way. Seems like the apple is at would be to make removing the drive just work.

by jonhohle

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Shameless self promotion - if you plug your notebook computer into external disks often and don’t enjoy finding them to eject every time you undock, DriveLight[0] gives you a global shortcut to eject (or just unmount) all your disks at once. You get a menu bar extra to show disk activity, too!
0 - https://ttkb.co/soft/drivelight/

by gerdesj

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Replace the word "ejected" with "removed" as appropriate and the error becomes apparent.
No one "ejects" an external hard disc, you remove or disconnect it. You do eject a CD or a DVD.
Eject is a forceful removal ... if my memory is not totally shagged - iacto (Latin - I throw) or similar.
To be fair I have seen a few ejections or the aftermath of discs (hard/floppy/CD/DVD) and not considered them ... a disconnect event 8)
I suggest Apple go back to school and dispense with the lazy error reporting.