Re: "Disk not ejected properly"

[steve...]

DP wrote:
[quote=ka jowct]
There's also the waking-from-sleep improper disk ejection bug that appeared sometime after Snow Leopard.

Get this fairly regularly. Usually after a few minutes the "ejected" disk pops back up....
I've been getting that too without any obvious problems (El Capitan).

[pdq]

Article Accelerator wrote:
[quote=pdq]
Any Mac owner will certainly recognize this quaint quirk of MacOS

It's neither quaint nor a quirk. Avoiding disconnecting a storage device while it may be actively being read or written is a Good Thing™.
Well, yeah. But the most common setting for me is getting photos off a CF flash card. When I've taken the photos off, I can either

1) click on the eject icon next to the name of the card in iPhoto ('untitled") and wait (it takes a while!) or
2) dig around on the desktop to try to find the desktop icon and drag it to the trash (a horribly non-intuitive action) or
3) just yank the damn thing out and have my Mac tut-tut at me.

I choose #3.

[Article Accelerator]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
Had problems around 2008, but not on a Mac.

What is "MacOS?"

You're right—it should be macOS.

[JoeH]

#4 - Right click on the desktop icon and select Eject

As for consequences, I had a drive connection (USB or Firewire, I forget which now) get pulled out accidentally. The result was a corrupted large video file that was not recoverable, and it took disk repair to get the free space back to a valid amount.

This is something you can often get away with on a device that is currently only being read. But not 100% of the time.

[riley5108]

PeterW wrote:
Mangled a flash drive directory pretty good once but that was done by removing the drive in the middle of a copy operation.

Did the same thing, didn't have a PC to reformat. Ended up just smashing it with a hammer. Now I make sure they are finished copying and always use Disk Utility to eject the drives.

[testcase]

Back in the days of SCSI, I knew someone who routinely "hot swapped" hard drives. He never had an issue doing it.

[JoeH]

testcase wrote:
Back in the days of SCSI, I knew someone who routinely "hot swapped" hard drives. He never had an issue doing it.

Back in the day I also knew someone who would do that. Usually got away with it, except that one time...

There were so many things that needed to be "just so" for it to work without problems, I never considered it an option.

[Onamuji]

pdq wrote:
Any Mac owner will certainly recognize this quaint quirk of MacOS, but the time has come to discuss the consequences thereof.

Eventually hoses the directory structure and you lose all of the data on the drive.

[Racer X]

one in a few hundred times it ends up badly. Usually the active file copy corrupted data directory.