Hi, I have a mac mini..all of a sudden when I wake it up in the morning it says I didn't disconnect y external properly and it will try to retrieve the information..it finally appearsbut it never used to say I should disconnect the external before...help
Hello, my mac mini has suddenly started displaying a warning sign when I wake it up..saying I didn't properly "eject" a device... It is referring to my external/backup hd {on which I store music files, photos, back up files, etc}. It has never happened until yesterday... and I have had the hd hooked up for over a year. Each night I just put my mini to sleep and when it wakes in the morning everything is fine... the only time I ever disconnect the external hd is when I completely shut down or unplug...the procedure then has been to turn off the mini...then disconnect the external hd and unplug it. This has always worked fine, then suddenly it says I haven't properly disconnected the external hd... I don't know what to do... am I supposed to use the eject button now before I shut down...and how can I do that... it will state that it is not able to be ejected because it is in use {the rotating photos in my monitor background are stored on the external hd}. I am puzzled... don't want to lose the info on my external hd...but I need to be able to put my mini to sleep. Help, please.
Have the pics allways been used off the external drive?
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
Is Spotlight indexing that drive, or is it used by Time Machine?
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