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

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!

This is happening to me too, but with a twist. This on a MacBook Pro, M2 sonoma 14.6.1, A pair of unmatched 2Tb drives connected as RAID1 for Time Machine. The Raid 1 Back up gets the Disk Not Ejected Properly message some minutes after a back up. The drives seems to start and stop multiple times per hour, randomly, even when Time Machine isn't actively backing up, and even when the MacBook is asleep. Upon waking the computer next day, there's a sick of Disk not Ejected properly messages. The twist is , when "Browse Time Machine Back Up" is selected, a finder widow "Desktop-Local" opens, then immediately the MacBook screen goes black, the external display does not but the cursor and keyboard are disabled. Press "escape" to restore the MacBook screen with the Desktop finder window. Strange, two different issues. What to do to get the Time machine to work as it should, what to do to stop the drives disconnecting? Could it be the 2 bay drive dock being used? The Raid?

These issues did not appear with a 1tb 2.5" bus powered drive used as time machine. That drive worked, Did not disconnect, showed the browse backups feature

My gripe is why you have to close each one of them individually? There's a "Clear All" button on other notifications. I sometimes have a hundred of these requestors show up if I sleep my computer overnight. It's a bafflingly bad bug

It's more than an annoying notation on the screen. I use external drives for Time Machine. Every time they are ejected, I have to unplug the drive and then reenter the password. This is annoying and probably hard on the drives. Please excuse the pun.

Apple, Please fix!

Yes, this has happened with my hard drive. Maybe the cord’s components are fried. It happens sometimes. I remember my Mac kept doing this with my iPod from 2005. Also do you have the latest Mac OS?

I am having a similar problem. Every morning my iMac with OS Ventura tells me my Seagate external HD has not been ejected properly. This did not happen until working with OS Ventura.

This 100% a Mac problem... With Sonoma, this is unbearable with ANY of my removable storage. Not a hardware problem as the hardware did not change.

Mac OS bug for sure. Anyone know how to prevent the Mac from going to sleep? The settings are very limited in the control panel. I have 10 of these on screen right now.

Working with a client on Sonoma of an M1 iMac. Same issue. Have followed advice all over Google, no joy.

Agree - this is a Mac problem - happens frequently, with ANY SSD connected to my Mac Studio thunderbolt ports with thunderbolt cable. Makes it impossible to back up to any SSD

Thanks to all of you for helpful advice....having same issue suddenly and getting worse. Hope Apple will acknowledge and fix the bug!

Strongly agree. Every time I wake up my Mac Pro 2023 I have many disk eject statements. I've only noticed it after the last update. What gives?

LR

This post saved my sanity. Thanks so much!

same here with multiple drivers, one of them a Lacie Rugged 5TB, but not limited. Messages pop up even as I speak now, not limited to going to sleep.

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.