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Tech198

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After upgrading today to 10.14 Mojave, my USB drives are no longer ejecting properly..

When i click "eject" in Finder, Disk Utility, or Desktop icon, the drive spins down,then automatically spins up again and mounts.

I got round this by timing it when it spins down, so i know its not busy, then manually force eject by hand... so less chance of data corruption, but this is not a solution obviously. I feel one of these if i ain't get it solved, i'm gonna forget about this.

The alternative i guess is to re-format but it they ejected fine n High Sierra.

Anyone else having this issue? Specially Western Digital. I haven't tried others as i only have WD usb drives.
 
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Vlad.E.

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I don’t have a solution, but I don’t use eject, I just pull the cable when there is no light activity.
 
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Tech198

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Problem solved. just trashed Finder.plist and rebooted..

No idea why that happened, while on my Mac mini, in the same upgrade path, it ejected ok.

Apple really gets my head scratching sometimes.
 
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