How to force stop an external hard drive for easily safe ejection/removal?


Bree said:
I find that signing out almost always stops any of those hidden processes that may be locking the drive, then I just sign back in an eject it.
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Yes, that's what I do. See my post #2.
 

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archz2 said:
I get an error that the drive is busy
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After reading this topic, as far as I can tell, no one has yet mentioned that indexing is disabled for the external drive. Or is it implied that this is how it is by default?
 

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Lavik said:
After reading this topic, as far as I can tell, no one has yet mentioned that indexing is disabled for the external drive. Or is it implied that this is how it is by default?
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Disable the writing cache and indexing also ................try again after reboot 🛠️
 

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