It is oh-so-tempting to just pull that flash drive out of your USB port when you’re done with it. But resist the urge! Unceremoniously disconnecting an external drive from your Mac can result in all ...

You are about to transfer some important files from an external drive to your Mac, and suddenly you get the message “Disk Not Ejected Properly” The transfer fails, and you have to start all over again ...

You have several options for ejecting a disc from your Mac's optical drive. If the usual methods for disc ejection fail, you enter a command in the Terminal window to ...

The need for the Eject command arises from two reasons. First, if there are open files on a disk, macOS refuses to let you eject it because doing so might result in data loss. Second, the Eject ...

If you’re a Mac OS X user, you may have noticed that sometimes disks don’t want to eject. Also, the operating system occasionally reports that a disk is in use when it’s not. Real Software has a ...

July 23, 2009 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Mac OS X only: Ever try ejecting a thumb drive or other volume on your Mac but discover "disk is in use and could ...