Unmounting External Drives

Hello,
I'm writing here in hopes to be heard by the Apple Gurus.
With all the new features like Time Machine in Leopard I find it has become much harder be able to just simply unmount an external drive when you need to. I'm using Leopard on a Macbook, with Time Machine, but when I need to take the laptop out, and thus unmount the external drive, I hardly get anything but the "applications are currently using the drive" message, even when the drive was in sleep mode just before I tried to unmount it. So it means you either have to quit every single application,and wait for the drive to see it's not used anymore, or shut down the computer, in order to unplug. So here's my suggestion, actually two : 1) when the drive is in use, please show the name of the app using it, making it simpler to solve the issue in order to unmount ; 2) and why not an button like "terminate all uses of this drive and unmount".
Thank you in advance for taking notice of this, it would save a lot of time for laptop owners using external drives.

Hi
Nice ideas. Unfortunately Apple gurus don't have anything to do with the Discussions Forums, you could always send feedback to Apple.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
Steve

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