Annoying "disk not ejected properly"

Nathan Gogol wrote:

2019 imac with Monterey 12..3.1

just a WD thunderbolt drive.

old issue, new issue, what changed(?)— "So the last few months..."

Dismount/unplug the WD thunderbolt drive if it is an issue....

Try a different external drive and compare your results. Drives can fail at anytime.

One indication of drive operating in a state of failure is dismounting/remounting errors

you can try a different port. a different cable. a different enclosure in an effort to drill down on the cause.

if no insight or resolve—

For your macOS try a Safeboot to clear caches and sort anomalies

 SafeBoot How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support

Nathan Gogol wrote:

Fair enough. However I’ve done this with hard drives since time machine first came out, never had this kind of issue. Last time had two drives plugged in, no ejects, it’s a buggy os, at least from what I found on a developers forum I’m not alone, Monterey has its bugs .

DISK NOT EJECTED PROPERLY keeps po… | Apple Developer Forums

started with big sur but from reading the forum on page 3 people still having same issues on latest Monterey

Then you can follow up with your own bug report—

submit your Apple Feedback/bug report hhttp://www.apple.com/feedback

wait for some point update to more properly address the issue....

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/get-macos-updates-mchlpx1065/mac

Nathan Gogol wrote:

Ya what i kinda found for a work around is leaving another drive plugged in, then nothing falsely ejects. The drive in question is a thunderbolt 2 adapted to current thunderbolt. Never ever gave issues until the last two monterey updates. So was experimenting and left a USB C drive plugged in as well as the thunderbolt, no ejects, Eject the USB C and leave just the WD Thunderbolt, multiple disk not ejected properly. So today I tried just leaving a thumb drive plugged in and nice to see I have had no "disk not ejected properly" notifications so at least till Apple fixes this, this is an easy temporary solution for me. Hope this helps anyone else

Thanks, very interesting.

You can submit a bug report and see if it catches any attention,

Apple Feedback/bug report: http://www.apple.com/feedback 

Unless there's some reason you need to keep it on all night sleeping instead of shut down why don't you just shut it down, That will do two things:

1 - clear out temporary system and application cache and swap files which can improve system performance if there's a damaged file amount them.

2 - avoid the "disk not ejected properly" warning.

A hard drive should be exclusively for Time Machine and not for storing data file. I'd get another external HD, erase the current drive and use it either for TM or data storage and the new drive for the other.

FWIW I recommend OWC (MacSales.com) for external drives, both SSDs and rotational (for TM use) as they have an excellent reputation for reliability, customer support and honoring their warranties. I have 8 of their SSDs and one rotational (for TM) in use currently. Not a shill for OWC but just a happy camper.

I have the same experience. Never had any drive ejected until after I went up to Monterey. After testing several drives, cables and ports I was able to cut this issue down to only ejected every few weeks by changing over to TB drives. Prior drives were USB 3.2 gen 2 drives. The drive that I have ejected is my Time Machine. My other drive is always solid.

Hello;

I have three external HDs' connected andI had the same problem with tons of disk not ejected properly messages. I changed my Energy saver settings and have not had the problem since. This might help you as well.

Regards

Nathan Gogol wrote:

So the last few months this has sure been getting annoying, come to my computer in the morning and insane amount "disk not ejected properly etc" in notifications, takes forever to close all them. Im running a 2019 imac with Monterey version 12.3.1. Been doing this for at least a month but sure has gotten insane lately, most likely since i updated to 12.3.1 Weird thing is I sure can't seem to find much out there info of this problem recently. In Energy saver my settings are bellow.

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/50a26303-f631-4616-8c75-f1aa7269c1a8

Any thoughts greatly appreciated

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What do you have plugged in?