Ejecting a Mac External Hard Drive With DiskEject
Ejecting a Mac External Hard Drive Without Data Loss
You can easily remove a drive on Mac by using the eject button in Finder. This is the most reliable method to safely unplug a device on your Mac and avoid losing important data or an inaccessible error.
However, sometimes the eject process fails. This happens when the external hard drive is in use and one or more programs are running on it.
To eject an external disk, you should first close any apps that are currently accessing the files on it. If you cannot close an application, you can also try logging out the user or the user’s account that is accessing the external disk.
Alternatively, you can apply a free application tool called Activity Monitor to locate the running processes and stop them. This will prevent the can’t eject external disk on Mac problem caused by a program that is in use.
DiskEject is a simple application that is designed to help you eject discs from dedicated disc units without having to open them or look for the eject option. It’s portable, easy to use and fast.
In the past, you could only use the physical eject key to eject an external drive in Windows, but now you can do it via the command line. In addition, you can eject a removable drive by dragging its icon to the Trash in Finder.
You can also run a Terminal command to force eject the disk if you need to eject it quickly. But be careful – it can over-drive the device and make the data inside it lose.