mounted dmg files will not eject

I have had 0 issues ejecting DMG files. Did you do an upgrade install? I wonder what's causing them to hang around for you and not for me.

Beach City Ed wrote:
I am having problems eject dmg mounted install files. Right now have 6 of them that won't go away...when you try to eject from finder...finder closes instead.

After a clean install, I had this same problem where I couldn't eject any disk images on my desktop. I restarted and haven't had the problem since.

Try logging out and restarting.

I've seen this on all of the Macs I've installed Leopard on - Clean, Archive and Upgrade installs - MacBooks, MacBook Pro, iBook and iMac.

It seems to go away after a while - not sure if it's the restarts that do it, but time seems to heal a lot of the initially strange behavior of Leopard.

And once all the strange stuff stops, the OS is lightning fast, and FULL of amazing features...

Try ejecting it from the terminal using hdiutil

Open up a terminal, cd to /Volumes, get the name of a mounted DMG file, and try like this:

(in my case the volume was /MailTags2.2b4):

maggie:Volumes blloyd$ hdiutil detach MailTags2.2b4
"disk1" unmounted.
"disk1" ejected.

Do you get an error message?

i have run into this issue as well on every single mac i have here (5 in total... i bought a family pack). a macbook, macbook pro, imac 2.8extreme, imac 2.4ghz, mini.

i did upgrades on all except the 24" imacs. those two machines were stripped and formatted and had fresh installs... but ALL machines are experiencing this issue.

and it definitely IS a finder issue. for those that need a work around until this is fixed, open up disk utility, and eject it from there. it will work fine and eject as it is supposed to from within disk utility... but it fails (just sits there) in finder, no matter what dmg file it is, or how it is ejected (right click on the desktop... drag to trash... click the eject button in finder.. etc)

apple needs to do something about this issue. I am having the same problem (it's a fresh install - format and everything). there are a number of posts on the apple forums (*here and elsewhere) - we need this issue FIXED. Resorting to another "alternative" way of ejecting is not suitable.

Hi,

I'm experiencing the same issue.

Did a clean install of Leopard, and sometimes *.dmg's wont eject. Right click -> Eject, dragging it to Trash or Finders eject button doesn't work. Clearly a Finder bug.

Disk Utility does seem to work though, so I've been using that when having the problem.

Did anyone file a bug repport?

Message was edited by: Farsinsen

hi,

Firstly make sure you aren't using the programs that are within the dmgs.
I had the same problem a couple days ago, I had 3 dmgs mounted on my desktop and they wouldn't eject at all. I tried to eject through finder, wouldn't work, so instead i just relaunched finder through the force quit option in the apple menu bar.

That seemed to do the trick just fine and when it settled down I could eject all the disks.

Had the same trouble last week after initial upgrade. A restart solved the problem and it has not recurred.

Hi,
I'm experiencing the same issue. I did an upgrade installation of Leopard. Every time I try to eject Time Machine (external HD), it doesn't eject! What I find helpful is to click on the apple icon on the top left, then select "Force Quit". Then I click on Finder and select "Relaunch". After doing that, I am able to eject Time Machine.
Cheers,

Mike

I have had the same problem from day one of 10.5 use.

Having said that It is not a constant problem, some days all my mounted DMG files eject no problem, other days only a restart works.

After a lot of experimentation and yelling at my screen I have found a temp solution if you have stuck mounted volumes and don't want to restart.

If you load up a program and open the 'save/open file' dialog box (e.g. while in safari press command+O) the mounted volume should appear under 'devices' on the left hand side (assuming that you haven't disabled this feature in Finder preferences). If you use the eject buttons next to each drive they should then eject as per normal (10.4 normal not 10.5 normal).

I was running into this as well but the hdiutil command worked. Thanks for the tip Will.

For the record, I'm on a G4 iBook with a clean installation of Leopard. The DMG in question was the Adobe Flash 9 installer.

Message was edited by: Sean Lynch

clean install same issue.