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Q: External hdd won't eject properly since El Capitan

27" iMac, 13 2, fusion drive, OS X 10.11       My LaCie back up drive's icon turns green after the first back up is complete but I can't eject it, except by forced eject.   If I force eject it, then turn it back on, it will perform another back up but stay orange when it is done.  Any one else have this problem?

 

I normally do 1 back up a day, then eject the disk and turn off the drive instead of leaving everything on at night.  Any help at all would be appreciated as I am a creature of habit and resist change.

 

Thanks in advance:  Tom

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), Fusion Drive

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 10:15 AM

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Tom,

 

I had same problem on my 27" iMac and my macbook air.  Problem went away after I rebooted the machines.

 

Hope this helps,

Bob

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 10:43 AM

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  • by Koen,

    Koen Koen Oct 12, 2015 4:05 AM in response to Koen
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    Oct 12, 2015 4:05 AM in response to Koen

    Well, I spoke too soon, the notifications are back.

     

    I will file a bug report as well - the more, the merrier.

  • by Keith Fisher,

    Keith Fisher Keith Fisher Oct 12, 2015 7:12 AM in response to EVISCERATOR
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    Oct 12, 2015 7:12 AM in response to EVISCERATOR

    IMO, Apple is trying to move all external drives to the cloud so they can charge you for storage. These little bugs are no accident.

    Apple...the new Microsoft.

  • by gsavoca,

    gsavoca gsavoca Oct 12, 2015 5:46 PM in response to EVISCERATOR
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    Oct 12, 2015 5:46 PM in response to EVISCERATOR

    Hi,

     

    I have been having the problem Disk Not Ejected Properly,  while using Time Machine, since I migrated to El Capitan.  After trying many things in my case I found that when I quit the Desktop version of DropBox (in the Menu Bar), the problem was gone.  I wrote to DropBox to see if they can help with the problem.  I will post it if they find a solution.  I hope this will help some of you having this annoying problem.

     

    Regards,

     

    Giovanni

  • by derekfromwhangarei,

    derekfromwhangarei derekfromwhangarei Oct 12, 2015 9:07 PM in response to Koen
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    Oct 12, 2015 9:07 PM in response to Koen

    Hi Koen, I followed your suggestion and submitted a Bug Report to Apple.

    My scenario does not need a reboot most times as once I accept the window informing me of Disk Not Ejecting all seems to continue as normal. What I do sometimes get however is my Back Up Disk Icon is moved to another part of my desktop and replaced by a second "Hard Drive" icon and to fix that I need to do a reboot.

    Thank you for your response.

  • by Koen,

    Koen Koen Oct 13, 2015 3:22 AM in response to gsavoca
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    Oct 13, 2015 3:22 AM in response to gsavoca

    Wow - turning of Dropbox works here as well. Thanks for finding that.

  • by Koen,

    Koen Koen Oct 13, 2015 4:08 AM in response to Koen
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    Oct 13, 2015 4:08 AM in response to Koen

    Again, I spoke too soo - the notifications are back

     

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  • by gsavoca,

    gsavoca gsavoca Oct 15, 2015 10:40 AM in response to Koen
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    Oct 15, 2015 10:40 AM in response to Koen

    Hi Koen,

    The failure repeated in my machine too.  However I received an answer from Dropbox and it may work.  They suggested to remove the local DropBox folder from TimeMachine  (OS X Yosemite: Exclude items from a Time Machine backup).  The link explains how to remove a folder from Backup.

    It has some logic on the issue, if the backup is waiting for the Dropbox folder to sync it may be causing a timeout.  For me it has worked up to now.

    Hope it works for you

    Giovanni

  • by EVISCERATOR,

    EVISCERATOR EVISCERATOR Oct 15, 2015 11:07 AM in response to gsavoca
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    Oct 15, 2015 11:07 AM in response to gsavoca

    Thanks for the info.  I am trying this and keeping my fingers crossed.

  • by Eli Sherer,

    Eli Sherer Eli Sherer Oct 15, 2015 11:36 AM in response to EVISCERATOR
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    Oct 15, 2015 11:36 AM in response to EVISCERATOR

    My problem is similar... I have both a connected HDD for Time Machine backups, alternating with a Network Drive (and Drop Box).

     

    When I walk away from the machine (a MacBook Pro, recently upgraded to El Capitan), the computer does it's thing for a while, then tries to sleep after an hour. When I return, I wake it to find 2-3 messages saying that certain Disks (including the Time Machine HDD and the Network drive) were not ejected properly. I have NOT seen this with Dropbox (yet).

     

    NOTE: When I put the machine to sleep manually, then wake it, I do NOT see the problem. Only after it goes to sleep on it's own (after an hour of doing whatever computers do when we're not around).

  • by didierlee,

    didierlee didierlee Oct 17, 2015 7:52 AM in response to Koen
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    Oct 17, 2015 7:52 AM in response to Koen

    I have the same problem too after upgrade to EI Capitan

  • by Koen,

    Koen Koen Oct 18, 2015 12:05 PM in response to gsavoca
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    Oct 18, 2015 12:05 PM in response to gsavoca

    Alas, I'm still having the issue.

  • by EVISCERATOR,

    EVISCERATOR EVISCERATOR Oct 18, 2015 12:11 PM in response to Koen
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    Oct 18, 2015 12:11 PM in response to Koen

    The problem still continues for me.  I have tried everything in this post and the problem persists.

  • by derekfromwhangarei,

    derekfromwhangarei derekfromwhangarei Oct 18, 2015 5:31 PM in response to EVISCERATOR
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    Oct 18, 2015 5:31 PM in response to EVISCERATOR

    Think we have to wait for an Apple fix, maybe hopefully very soon. It is happening to a lot of users but the circumstances vary so just have to grin and bear it until it's fixed.

  • by didierlee,

    didierlee didierlee Oct 19, 2015 3:03 AM in response to didierlee
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    Oct 19, 2015 3:03 AM in response to didierlee

    1) Hold "D" key when start the mac, the hardware test is normal.

    2) Hold command R to restore EI Capitan again, the external hdd is still has the same problem...

    3) Use another computer to backup my external hdd's data first, I formal erase the external hdd again, thats work and no warning again.

  • by BertingAP,

    BertingAP BertingAP Oct 22, 2015 10:58 PM in response to EVISCERATOR
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    Oct 22, 2015 10:58 PM in response to EVISCERATOR

    Does anyone know if tonight's update to 10.11.1 fixed the problem?

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