Maria Kelek
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Photography

Q: cannot eject external hard disk with Aperture library on it

Hello,

 

since a few weeks i cannot eject a hard drive with the Aperture library on it. A dialogue appears saying that an Application is still in use, but Aperture is closed and there is nothing else on the external drive (Seagate 2 TB).

 

Yesterday i moved my library to a Lacie Rugged drive. Still same issue.

 

What could be the reason for it?

Aperture 3, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on Jun 5, 2016 10:28 PM

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Q: cannot eject external hard disk with Aperture library on it

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  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Jun 5, 2016 11:37 PM in response to Maria Kelek
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    Jun 5, 2016 11:37 PM in response to Maria Kelek

    DDid you change the Aperture preferences recently? Perhaps the Preview preferences or Share XML ?

  • by Maria Kelek,Helpful

    Maria Kelek Maria Kelek Jun 5, 2016 11:37 PM in response to léonie
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    Jun 5, 2016 11:37 PM in response to léonie

    i did not change the preferences. "Share XML with other applications" is currently set to Never.

     

    But, now i could eject without force quitting! Maybe it has something to do with CCC, i am not sure. If problem returns, I will write again. Thanks!

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 6, 2016 5:28 AM in response to Maria Kelek
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    Jun 6, 2016 5:28 AM in response to Maria Kelek

    You're welcome, Maria. Let us know, if the problem returns.

     

  • by notcloudy,

    notcloudy notcloudy Jun 6, 2016 5:48 AM in response to Maria Kelek
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    Jun 6, 2016 5:48 AM in response to Maria Kelek

    Maria Kelek wrote:

     

    i did not change the preferences. "Share XML with other applications" is currently set to Never.

     

    But, now i could eject without force quitting! Maybe it has something to do with CCC, i am not sure. If problem returns, I will write again. Thanks!

     

    Spotlight/finder indexing may still be running - so there may be a delay to when you can eject the drive - I have had that happen with a WD passport backup drive - where after doing a backup had to wait for 15 minutes until I could eject the drive.       I now have the drive in private area of Spotlight/finder so have not had a problem ejecting it.

  • by Maria Kelek,

    Maria Kelek Maria Kelek Jun 6, 2016 6:37 AM in response to notcloudy
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    Jun 6, 2016 6:37 AM in response to notcloudy

    this is a good suggestion, i will do that, thank you!