Back up with external Hard drive

One should always eject before shutting down on MacBook Air after an External drive back up. How does one do that before removing the external HD. Why am I getting messages here to include text? I thought that’s what I’m doing?

MacBook Air (M2, 2023)

Posted on Oct 2, 2023 11:33 AM

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Posted on Oct 2, 2023 12:31 PM

There are two ways to elect an external drive, Time Machine or other:


1 - click and drag the drive to the Trash Bin which will eject the drive.

2 - Control (right) - click on the drive and select eject from the contextual menu:



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