What is the safe way to remove a thumb drive from the usb port - how to do it

How to safely remove a thumb drive from the Apple IMAC computer usb port?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.5

Posted on Jul 30, 2021 10:05 PM

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Posted on Jul 31, 2021 8:04 AM

If the thumb drive is visible on the desktop, click its icon and press Command-E (⌘E) to eject it. Then simply unplug it.

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Jul 31, 2021 8:11 AM in response to D.I. Johnson

As above, but wait for the little light on the drive to stop flashing: for some reason the drive disappears from the Desktop before it's fully unmounted and sometime pulling it out straight after it's disappeared results in the 'drive was not properly ejected' message: it's possible for some data to be corrupted in this case, though mostly this doesn't seem to happen.

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