Ejecting Drive closes Finder

When clicking the Eject button in Finder beside my external drives, it causes finder to close and about 50% of the time reports error when I unplug the drive later on. Is this a bug or is it suppose to close finder like that? Tiger didn't act this way so a bit confused.
Thanks,
glenn

VK
Yes. You did. And I just wrote to you in that other thread and provided a link to this group and this thread since I know it's improper to have the same subject generating threads in two different groups.
This is where it belongs. Lo siento.
V. K. and Barney 15E:
In any case, I think I finally got it.
The thing that jogged my head and apparently seems to be the solution is to simply not have that external drive highlight/selected/being the source for the columns, when ejecting it. (Yes, I can be slow to catch on).
So all I had to do was _leave the drive in the sidebar, then click on any one of the other items in the sidebar so their paths/columns are visible. THEN eject the external drive. Finder window stays open!_
It even works after mounting an encrypted disk image that resides on one of the two volumes on that external drive. I just clicked on Main HD, then clicked the eject symbol next to the disk image; then each of the two volumes. Finder window endured!
noodle--head ...de... LighT...ed

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