A warning keeps appearing every 10 minutes indicating the disk was not ejected properly. How do I stop this warning?

The disk was not ejected properly. If possible, always eject a disk before unplugging it or turning it off.
To eject a disk, select it in the Finder and choose File Eject. The next time you connect the disk, Mac OS X will attempt to repair any damage to the information on the disk.

Try mounting a disk, then ejecting it properly, see if that helps. Please post back with results.

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Message "The disk was not ejected properly..." keeps reappearing

Problem: I ejected an external HD (by control-mouse click), turned it off, and disconnected it from the firewire cable. Some minutes later, I got the dialogue box: "The disk was not ejected properly. If possible, always eject a disk before unplugging it or turning it off." I clicked OK, continued to work and, a few minutes later, I got the dialogue back again. This continued to happen several times, so I did a restart and the same warning reappeared at various intervals. I did another restart and have had the same warning appear several times.
Questions: How do I make the warning stop and, more importantly, what is wrong that makes this happen?
I have googled the dialogue and only seen discussions about time machine.
TIA

+but I'm still concerned about the iMac and why it is repeating the warning.+
I understand that and we need to do some troubleshooting to see if it will take care of things. Obviously, something got corrupted. Instead of running repair permissions from within DU, you could also run a utility such as Onyx (which includes that) available here:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/onyx.html
Another suggestion is to start up from your install disk and run the "repair disk" from Disk Utility on that install disk.
If you want to check if the external is being recognized and still had the data on it, go ahead, but eject and unplug it before doing any of the above.
Hopefully either or both suggestions will help.

Why do I keep getting the message "The disk was not ejected properly." (There is no disk in the iMac)!

For about the last two to three months, every time I wake up my iMac from sleeping, I always get the message "The disk was not ejected properly."
There is no disk in my iMac!
This is no big problem to me, as all I do is hit the "enter" key, and it disappears until the next time I wake it from a sleep.
But, WHY is this happening?

Hi WZZZ. I don't know what to look for when I opened per your instructions, but here's the images:
Two more snaps to come:

HT3275 Message appears "The disk was not ejected properly...." I do not eject the disk or shut it down.

I am using an iomega external HD as my Time Machine backup drive. Occasionally I receive the message "The disk was not properly ejected...." I never eject the the disk or turn it off. The data on the drive does not appear to be affected. Any suggestions or fixes would be appreciated.

There are a lot of possibilities, unfortunately.
Does the external have it's own power supply? If so, make sure it's plugged-in to a known good outlet -- better yet, to the same good surge protector your iMac is plugged-in to -- even better, to the same U.P.S. (battery backup) your iMac is running from. That will protect them against power dips as well as power spikes, which can cause momentary disconnections.
It's possible the external isn't "spinning up" quickly enough after sleeping. Try moving the check from the Put the hard disk(s) to sleep ... box in System Preferences > Energy Saver. Some external drives respond to that setting, some don't. If that doesn't change, see if you can adjust or disable the "spin down" or sleep function of the drive (check the info that came with it, or with the maker). The older it is, the more likely it's slowing down a bit -- drives are mechanical beasties, after all, with tiny bearings and moving parts.
Try different ports, cables, and combinations of the two. A cable may be frayed invisibly; a plug that works fine in one port may not make good contact in another.

Ever since upgrading to Lion I keep getting the error message "disk was not ejected properly."

Ever since upgrading to Lion on my iMac G5 Intel Core 2 Duo, I keep getting the error message "disk was not ejected properly." I have repaired permissions and reformatted my external LaCie 2TB USB hard disk, but the error continues. I use this disk for my Time Machine backups. This always seems to happen when the computer wakes from sleep, but not consistently. The computer was asleep overnight and backed up as soon as it awakend this morning. Two hours later I get the improper ejection message. I have used the same external disk with Snow Leopard (all versions), but never had this error message or problem. This disk has been in use without any problems since February, 2011. Upgrading to Lion is when this problem began. This is the below message (but from online image from Snow Leopard, but Lion message is essentially the same).

I had a similar issue. Mine was with a Seagate GoFlex drive. The solution was to install GoFlex for Mac 1.1.2 which included a 64-bit driver to disable the drives built in sleep timer:
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=goflex-mac-install-softw are&vgnextoid=77002aaf8cc5d210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD
I document how I discovered this in my blog post:
http://www.innerexception.com/2011/10/tale-of-computing-misery-how-to-fix.html

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seventy one wrote:
Love the expression 'dust bunnies' Never met that before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_bunny

Since installing OS 10.8 keep getting "This disk was not ejected properly" messages. Why?

Since I installed Mountain Lion (OS 10.8) on my Mac Book Pro (early 2011), I keep getting "This disk was not ejected properly" messages. No yet sure what I do preceeding this occurence. Anyone else have this problem?

I am one of those who had experienced this kind of problem. My former Time Machine disk used to automatically eject itself when my iMac sleeps, hence upon waking up my iMac. i always get the error message that the disk was not properly ejected.
From what I was able to gather from my experience, until the time that I found a workable solution, I think I can say that the problem is most probably caused by the incompatibility of certain external drives with how the iMac operates when on sleep and upon waking up. Some external drives are just not able to cope with how the iMac tries to remount a connected disk after it wakes up from sleep. There are just some external drives that cannot continue to be mounted after the iMac wakes from sleep. There are just some external drives that are not responsive enough. In other words, the existence of the problem lies with the type of external drive you are using.
My former Time Machine disk, the problematic one, was an Imation M300 Apollo 1 TB external disk. It unmounts everytime my iMac went to sleep, but does not remount after waking up the iMac. The disk will continue to be unmounted until I physically remove its USB connector and replug it in the iMac.
I replaced my former Time Machine disk with my current one, a Transcend Storejet 1 TB. And the problem went away. The Transcend disk continue to be mounted after the iMac is woken up even from the longest of sleep. I have even the energy saving option "put the hard disk to sleep..." checked. The Transcend disk comes with a Y cable, i.e. it has two USB connectors, but I only connect the one for both data and power--and it still remains mounted even after waking the iMac from sleep.
The sad realization, however, is that since there are only some external drives that are not able to work with the iMac, no matter how many those some may seem to be, it will be highly unlikely for Apple to itself fix this kind of a problem.
I, therefore, make the following recommendations:
1. Check first if your problematic disk has a firmware upgrade available. In some cases, the firmware upgrade may be enough to make the disk more responsive to the iMac waking up.
2. If there is no firmware upgrade available, check if your power/data USB cable is properly working.
3. If your power/data USB cable is in order, and the problem still persists, I think it is inevitable that you have to replace the problematic disk with a newer one that could respond well with the iMac's wake/sleep operation. With what disk will you replace your problematic one? I can only recommend from my personal experience the Transcend disk I mentioned earlier. You may also search this forum on other brands of disks that may also work.
Regards.

I keep receiving this message "the disc was not ejected properly. if possible, always eject a disk before unplugging it or turning it off"

i keep receiving this message "the disc was not ejected properly. if possible, always eject a disk before unplugging it or turning it off"

I had this problem too, where it seemed I couldn't go eight hours without the Duo drives dropping and getting the "disc was not ejected properly" error message.
I tried the following and so far it seems to have fixed the problem:
In System Preferences > EnergySaver, make sure the setting “Put hard disks to sleep when possible" is unchecked.
I did this only on the Power Adaptor tab, but you might want to uncheck the setting on the Battery tab as well to be safe. (In my case, the Duo drives are unlikely to be attached when I’m running on battery, so I left the setting checked for the Battery tab so that the system can still power down the internal drive.)
Since I made the above change ten days ago, the Duo disks have not dropped, even when I left the system on with the Duo disks connected for a couple of days.
FYI I have the Duo set up with two RAID 1 sets spanning the two drives. I'm using Mavericks 10.9.4.

I downloaded Mavericks while I had an Age of Empires disk inserted; before installing, I saw a notice that Age of Empires won't run with Mavericks so I did not install, but now, using every trick I know the disk will not eject. Advice?t

Why won't Age of Empires disk not eject after downloading but not installin Mavericks?

here is pretty much every option:
Force eject a stuck cd/dvd
First try the normal methods to remove the disc. Drag its icon to the Trash can in the Dock or select 'Eject' from the File menu.
If you are running a virtual machine, e.g. VMFusion, ensure that the CD is disconnected from the virtual machine. This will sometimes allow the CD to now show up in Mac OS X.
Shut down the computer and start up whilst holding down the mouse button. This may take some time, but keep your finger on the mouse button right up until the disc comes out or the log-in screen has appeared.
If you have Toast Titanium installed on your computer, choose EJECT DISC from the menubar.
Sometimes you can successfully use the eject disc button in iTunes even if the disc is not visible to the Finder
Open Disc utility and choose the disc you wish to eject in the left-hand pane, then click on the Eject button.
Some Macintoshes have a paperclip hole that you can insert a straightened paperclip into, manually triggering the eject mechanism.
Open Terminal and type "drutil tray eject" to eject the disc/tray, and "drutil tray close" to close the tray.
If your computer has an eject button on the keyboard, restart the computer holding down the Option key. When the startup disk selection screen appears, let go of the option key and press the keyboard's eject button.
Source: http://guides.macrumors.com/Force_Eject_a_Stuck_CD_or_DVD

The disc was not ejected properly warning - but nothing was ejected.

I have a 2 year old iMac that has been working great.
I have 3 external HD's attached and everything seems to be working fine.
Just in the last 2 days however, my mac has started randomly poping up the disc not properly ejected warning. This has happened about 4 or 5 times in the last 2 days.
Nothing was unplugged and all the disc's and my mac are on battery backup.
When it happens I always quickly switch to a finder window to verify that all my discs are still on the list and they are.
I would like to figure out what is going on as my first instinct is that one of my externals may be failing and I would like to at least determine which one so I can backup the data on it.
Does anyone have any insight as to how I can figure out which disc is causing the error?

Can't help you, but I seem to be having the same issue too - started about a couple of days ago. Three times so far. I haven't been keeping track of whether or not it's the same HD every time, but will start trying to track the problem.

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A warning keeps appearing every 10 minutes indicating the disk was not ejected properly. How do I stop this warning?

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