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How to eject External Hard Drive from MacBook Pro

how do I eject the "my passport for mac" external hard drive after using time machine to back-up my MacBook pro. the external hard drive doesn't appear in "finder"


MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 8, 2020 2:23 PM

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Aug 8, 2020 2:36 PM in response to Barbara Yoder

Do you not have Finder> Preferences set to show you External Disks on the Desktop.


Click once on the Desktop, click on Finder top left of the screen,

select Preferences and then General,

and check the boxes of theorems you want displayed on the Desktop.


To eject a drive just drag its icon down to the Trash, the trashcan

will change to an 'eject symbol' ⏏︎, when you let go of the disks icon

it will remove itself from your Desktop.

How to eject External Hard Drive from MacBook Pro

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