How do I properly eject my USB drive?

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How do I properly eject my USB drive?

So I was on my USB drive and stuff and I tried to safely eject it (dragging into the trash, pressing the eject button in Finder).When I think it's safe to pull it out, I pull it out. But then a message appears that I didn't properly eject my flash drive, even though I clearly did. Is this something to worry about or is my Mac just acting up again? My Mac is from 2009 and my usb drive is a SanDisk Cruzer Blade 16 GB, btw -3- the suggestion thingy says to write that so i did ....

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Nov 17, 2014 7:27 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 17, 2014 7:34 PM in response to gogurl105

Drag to the trash, click on the flash drive image and press the eject key, Control-click the drive image and then choose eject, click the drive in the left side bar of Finder and then choose eject. Any method should work to eject the drive.

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Answer 2

Kappy

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Nov 17, 2014 7:39 PM in response to gogurl105

First, please use normal fonts and sizes here. Your selection is hard to read.

Always eject a device in one of these ways:

CTRL- or RIGHT-click on the device and select Eject from the context menu.
Select the device's Desktop icon and drag it to the Trash.
Select the device then select Eject from the Finder's File menu.
Select the device then press COMMAND-E.
Select the device and press the Eject button on the keyboard.

Do not remove the device until its Desktop icon has disappeared. Don't be in a hurry.

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