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Are there any apps that can display what apps are accessing a specified external hard drive?
Mac mini, macOS 15.1
You could try this in Terminal, to list the files being accessed on the drive, which might provide a clue: instead of "disk name" insert the name of your external drive instead:
sudo lsof | grep /Volumes/diskname
External Drive Activity