Disk Not Ejected Properly -- AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN...

Similar issue (although mine is not ejecting Time Machine except after LONG wait time) on brand new Mac Mini. Worked until latest update on Ventura. Safe mode works fine, but not in regular startup mode so I believe it's a Mac OS issue too. Similar issues with other daily backup drives that I switch out with Time Machine. Apple needs to fix this and stop blaming cords, drives and third party software. I will be going to Apple Store for them to troubleshoot, but I am not confident (as Mac user since 1990) that they will be able to "fix" the problem with the Mac OS.

Hello Everyone,

Yesterday I posted my experience with the solution that allowed my Lacie 5 TB Rugged drive purchased last September to backup beyond the previous max levels of 37% or 45% before mysteriously shutting off and receiving the unwelcomed "Disk Not Ejected Properly" popup on my desktop.

I hope sending all of you this post doesn't jinx me. Since then, the Lacie drive has been working. Time Machine has made multiple additional backups. And no popups have creeped onto my desktop. As a result, this solution may work for you. Below you will see the screensaver options I selected in system preferences yesterday. Since then, all's well. You might want to try the same.

System: 16" Macbook Pro, Lacie 5 TB Rugged drive used for Time Machine backup only. Mac OS Monterey Version 12.7.1. Hope this is helpful. See images to follow. Wishing you success.

I totally agree. I get fed up with Apple trotting out all this stuff about blaming cables, drives etc. i.e. all the stuff that they can pin on someone else.

My system was running just fine thank you untill the latest macOS upgrade. Since then I have been getting the "Disk not eject properly message repeatedly. Really crazy thing in, and this proves it is not a hardware issue, is that the disk isn't even disconnected.

Just fix this SOFTWARE issue Apple!

I too am receiving this error every morning when I wake my Mac mini. One or more of the external hard drives were not ejected properly. I thought the hard drives were aging and maybe being too short out. I bought a new external hard drive which I partitioned. These partitions, which have different names, appear in the finder window. Now here is thing. When waking the computer, only one partition will not have ejected properly. If it were some kind of physical, mechanical problem, then both partitions would have the same issue. No, this is a software issue that Apple needs to address. People pay a preimum for Apple products and for this they expect superior performance. I'm not seeing it here.

REJZERRN wrote:

I also have had this same "error message" on my iMac for several months. I've tried plugging my external hard drive into different ports but the same message pops up.

APPLE... PLEASE help us with this.

This is a user-to-user forum. Apple largely is not here, except to moderate it. If you want Apple to hear you, you need to contact Apple Support or drop them a note on their feedback page.

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I've responded to this thread before. I solved the issue on my system. I'm still using Ventura, and should update soon. In System Preferences, Lock Screen, I set "Start Screen Saver" to Never. But, I should qualify my solution. Occasionally, and far less frequently than before, I will get the dreaded Disk Not Ejected... error message. We should send our feedback directly to Apple: Feedback - Apple.com Website - Apple

Good luck to us all. A software problem like this should have been corrected years ago.

Jim

It's a bug. Apple should at least allow you to dismiss them all at once. I'm wasting potentially billable hours clicking the X over and over. My harddrive connections are not loose.

Same issue here with 2 external PCM drives, with various OSs. Apple, please fix that! It is REALLY about time!

Also, why repeat the same message hundred of times? Why not just one message with a counter? I have a thousand dialog message popped up. Insanely bad UI.

I've got a combo of 8 drives - HDD and SSD - attached to a USB3 Anker hub and connected to my 16" M1 MBP via USBA3/USBC cable. I had no problems while running Monterrey, ever. I recently switched to Ventura 13.5.2 and have been getting the "Disk not Ejected Properly" error ever since. It is rather unpredictable in that sometimes the error applies to all external drives, sometimes just some of the drives, but almost always the Crucial X6 when opening the laptop / waking from sleep. And like the OP, often the message is repeated, although only a few times. Oddly, I also sometimes get the error message after waking even though the drives were intentionally ejected before sleep.

It seems odd that the cables would have just "gone bad" at the exact same time I switched to Ventura, or that Ventura somehow found a problem with the cables that Monterrey did not. It does seem fair to assume it is a problem with Ventura.

This is a problem with Ventura OS. I have two LaCie Rugged 5TB hard drives that I use for covering events. I have two Macbook Pro's and the LaCies work fine on the one that runs an older operating system. They can stay plugged in without ever giving a Disk Not Ejected Properly message. On the Macbook Pro with Ventura OS it happens every time it goes to sleep.

Also the Macbook that I updated to Ventura worked for two years and never showed a Disk Not Ejected Properly message until I updated to Ventura.

Yes, thank you for saying this. As I also mentioned, the problem is not limited to Crucial brand drives. Although it does occur frequently with my Crucial drive, I have this issue with numerous brands of drives, all of which occur sporadically.

I would say swapping a cable was removing but one of the causes of this annoyance. In my case this happens frequently after a Time Machine backup to our NAS, i.e it’s not a hardware issue. It’s likely an internal timing, mishandled event, or something like that. There’s more than condition in which the system is exposed to the flaw.