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 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 force the system to eject the ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm working on this old iMac (350Mhz) which booted up the "Folder ?" deal. So I pop in the Norton CD to boot it up. Norton wants to format the drive. What the? Instead, I get it to check the drive ...

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As macOS has transitioned away from the SuperDrive and the use of physical media has declined, the eject key on Mac keyboards has become essentially useless. A new app from developer Dave DeLong, ...

Hi all, <BR><BR>I have inserted a cd into an Xserve, it hasnt appeared on the desktop, and I cant figure out how to eject the stupid thing. I don't want to reboot. <BR><BR>Is there a terminal command ...