I upgraded to Ventura yesterday. Now every time there is a Time Machine update, I get the "Disk not ejected properly" error. Now what is odd, sometimes the disk has been ejected, sometimes not. Sometimes it will show the error and do another backup in an hour, sometimes not.
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Leno77 wrote:
I upgraded to Ventura yesterday. Now every time there is a Time Machine update, I get the "Disk not ejected properly" error. Now what is odd, sometimes the disk has been ejected, sometimes not. Sometimes it will show the error and do another backup in an hour, sometimes not.
I would suggest file a bug report /submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple
Shut down and a reboot the machine would be fundemental...
You can always try a different port, a different cable, a different drive , run Disk Utility first aid...
and compare your results.
Repair a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
Same here - upgraded my 3 systems to Ventura yesterday. Now, when Time Machine finishes, I get an alert that the drive "Backups of <system name>" was not ejected properly. The backup target is a directory on a remote (also Ventura) Mac. (Oddly, there's no drive nor target backup directory of that name...I can only assume it refers to the <system name>.sparsebundle file).
For me the Time Machine drive seems to back up normally hourly like it's supposed to for a day or so, but then just randomly I'll find that the drive has ejected and a not reconnected for several hours. The first time that it happened I ran a First Aid when I was eventually able to make it reconnect and nothing was wrong with the drive.
What I am now finding is that I still get the "Disk not ejected properly" error but when the computer wakes up from sleep, within 5 minutes the Time Machine drive reconnects and performs the backup. Had run First Aid and no errors. So it's somewhat better.
Time Machine drive ejected after update
