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Q: External hdd won't eject properly since El Capitan

27" iMac, 13 2, fusion drive, OS X 10.11       My LaCie back up drive's icon turns green after the first back up is complete but I can't eject it, except by forced eject.   If I force eject it, then turn it back on, it will perform another back up but stay orange when it is done.  Any one else have this problem?

 

I normally do 1 back up a day, then eject the disk and turn off the drive instead of leaving everything on at night.  Any help at all would be appreciated as I am a creature of habit and resist change.

 

Thanks in advance:  Tom

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), Fusion Drive

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 10:15 AM

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Tom,

 

I had same problem on my 27" iMac and my macbook air.  Problem went away after I rebooted the machines.

 

Hope this helps,

Bob

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 10:43 AM

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  • by MGBBob,Solvedanswer

    MGBBob MGBBob Oct 1, 2015 10:43 AM in response to EVISCERATOR
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    Oct 1, 2015 10:43 AM in response to EVISCERATOR

    Tom,

     

    I had same problem on my 27" iMac and my macbook air.  Problem went away after I rebooted the machines.

     

    Hope this helps,

    Bob

  • by CyrilC,Helpful

    CyrilC CyrilC Oct 2, 2015 7:01 AM in response to EVISCERATOR
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    Oct 2, 2015 7:01 AM in response to EVISCERATOR

    Hi,

     

    I have the same problem with all External Disk USB and sometime with TimeCapsule Disk.

     

    Problem seen to be Spotlight, i must stop Spotlight with this command before eject:

    sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

    And restart Spotlight after because i use it often:

    sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

     

    Problem with GM and Final El Captain, before i don't know.

     

    I signal it to Apple with Feedback Assistant because this bug corrupt 2 of my Time Machine on USB External Disk.

     

    Maybe Apple correct... Maybe not...

  • by mdogan,Helpful

    mdogan mdogan Oct 6, 2015 2:56 AM in response to EVISCERATOR
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    Oct 6, 2015 2:56 AM in response to EVISCERATOR

    Hi,

     

    I solved the same problem by preventing spotlight from indexing/searching my backup disk.


    Just added backup disk to list on: System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy 

  • by EVISCERATOR,

    EVISCERATOR EVISCERATOR Oct 6, 2015 2:58 AM in response to mdogan
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    Oct 6, 2015 2:58 AM in response to mdogan

    Great! That fixed it.  Thank you very much:  Tom

  • by osxhag,Helpful

    osxhag osxhag Oct 9, 2015 4:44 AM in response to EVISCERATOR
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    Oct 9, 2015 4:44 AM in response to EVISCERATOR

    Hello,

     

    sorry, i'm not intending to be offensive at all,


    But i don't agree that restarting the Mac is properly qualified as a solution.

    Adding it to "Privacy" could be.

     

    Still: actually both is a typical Mac user behaviour: workarounding shortcomings that are not properly addressed by APPLE across consecutive releases of OSX and accepting this as a solution.

     

    The proper solution must be that APPLE eventually features an option to configuring Spotlight in order to programmatically exclude network shares or removable media from indexing. And the user's expectations must be that needs for profound solutions are valid and worth while being dealt with properly.

     

    Having to add each new share and drive to connect to Spotlight's "Privacy" is cumbersome and does not fit well the overall elegant and swift handling OSX is providing in general. Neither is it manageable...

     

    And i personally still find the core question unanswered: what changed in El Capitan that made all of this necessary at all?


    I am asking because i'll have to roll out a bigger deployment of OSX clients soon, with network accounts working on network shares and see a lot of trouble ahead...


    Best

  • by Brave Brands,

    Brave Brands Brave Brands Oct 9, 2015 12:04 PM in response to osxhag
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    Oct 9, 2015 12:04 PM in response to osxhag

    This just happened to me with my external HD, it corrupted it to the point of loosing all my pictures - not a happy chappy! Apple should stop releasing dodgy os's which seem to be the norm at the mo

  • by EVISCERATOR,

    EVISCERATOR EVISCERATOR Oct 9, 2015 12:13 PM in response to osxhag
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    Oct 9, 2015 12:13 PM in response to osxhag

    I have to agree with you as moving the external HDD to privacy was only a temp fix, as soon as I rebooted spot light began indexing it again!

    For now, I don't trust my backup's.

  • by EVISCERATOR,

    EVISCERATOR EVISCERATOR Oct 9, 2015 12:26 PM in response to Brave Brands
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    Oct 9, 2015 12:26 PM in response to Brave Brands

    Not good here either.  Everything I have tried ( moving Ext. HDD to privacy in spotlight, rebooting, etc.) were only temp fixes.  I think it may be related to spotlight, but don't know for sure.  For now, I will make 1 backup per week on 1 Ext HDD, (formatting it before hand even tho I know this shortens it"s life), and use my other ext. HDD for time machine backup's.  Big pain in the behind and requires 2 ext. HDD to be safe!

    Sure hope apple fixes this soon.   Please start a new post for your problem as I marked this one solved prematurely.

    Tom

  • by mdb76,

    mdb76 mdb76 Oct 10, 2015 12:36 AM in response to EVISCERATOR
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    Oct 10, 2015 12:36 AM in response to EVISCERATOR

    The problem may not be with Apple/El Capitan - it could be with LaCie Desktop Manager. The LaCie website doesn't list Desktop Manager in its compatible software list. When I boot, LaCie Desktop Manager opens automatically, but only lists my older 500GB Rugged HDD and not my newer 1TB SSD device which was working perfectly as my iTunes library drive until El Capitan. I can still access my iTunes library, however when I'm downloading tv shows, after a while I get an error message saying the drive could not be found. I think what is happening is that the drive is dismounting when my iMac goes to sleep. One notable difference between the two drives is that my 1TB drive is connected via a USB3 cable into a USB port. The other drive is connected with a Firewire cable into a Thunderbolt port via an adapter. The one connected by the USB3 cable is the problem drive.

     

     

    http://knowledge.lacie.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/007619en

    "At the launch of Mac OS 10.11, LaCie is updating certain of our applications"

  • by osxhag,

    osxhag osxhag Oct 10, 2015 10:28 AM in response to mdb76
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    Oct 10, 2015 10:28 AM in response to mdb76

    Hello,

     

    i also checked first with my antivirus software, which would be a typical suspect. I even uninstalled it to make double sure.

    When then checking the accessing processes with lsof, it turns out mdworker to be the only active on the respective mount.

    Turning off Spotlight then reliably and reproducibly stops the problem.

    My guess is it might be related as a side effect to how they improved copying files to removable media, which per se is a very nice and important feature for sure. Really just speculating...

    So my vote still is for Spotlight...

    Best

  • by Koen,

    Koen Koen Oct 11, 2015 6:44 PM in response to mdb76
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    Oct 11, 2015 6:44 PM in response to mdb76

    My external disk is Western Digital, and I'm having the same issue.

     

    (in response to mdb76)

  • by EVISCERATOR,

    EVISCERATOR EVISCERATOR Oct 11, 2015 6:51 PM in response to Koen
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    Oct 11, 2015 6:51 PM in response to Koen

    Yes there is a problem here, try restarting the computer without ejecting the ext. HDD.  After restart it should eject normally. 

  • by derekfromwhangarei,

    derekfromwhangarei derekfromwhangarei Oct 11, 2015 8:06 PM in response to Koen
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    Oct 11, 2015 8:06 PM in response to Koen

    I am same with my Western Digital so definitely a bug in the system and better for Apple to do a fix than mess around trying temporary ones.

  • by Koen,

    Koen Koen Oct 12, 2015 3:34 AM in response to derekfromwhangarei
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    Oct 12, 2015 3:34 AM in response to derekfromwhangarei

    Rebooting worked for me - we'll see if it is temporarily.

     

    @derekfromwhangarei: please submit a bug report with Apple, if you haven't doen so already: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html, so they are aware of it and can work on a fix.

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