Why do I get disc not ejected properly error message

Why do I keep getting disc not ejected properly error message since updating my operating system to 10.8.2?

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Device not ejected properly error message on all external storage devices: SD, Ext HD, iPod, IPhone, etc.

All external storage devices (USB HD, iPod, iPhone, SD card reader, etc) are not staying connected. Connection runs for 10-15 sec and the error message "card not ejected properly" appears. Have reformatted cards, performed a OSx install disk permissions and disk repair, re-installed and updated OSx, and PRAM reset. After the OSx reinstall I had no problems for about 2 days then my iPod shuffle sync triggered the error message. I follow good practice in ejecting disks from the Finder window or iTunes.

thought i had it licked after taking to the local service center. they checked out the hardware and felt there was no problem getting power to the USB and SD ports, eg the suspected cause of the eject. they thought it might be a buried permissions problem in some dl'ed software that the repair utility would not find/fix. sooo...i wiped the disk and reinstalled everything from scratch. worked for about a month and now its showing up again. just kicked off my shuffle. the sd reader self ejects after about 10 seconds. dunno where to go from here.

"Disk was not ejected properly" error message consistently

I have had my new Mac Mini for about three weeks. I keep getting an error message that the disk was not ejected properly. It pops up consistently about every 15 minutes or so while I am working. I am not ejecting any disks when it pops up. It will not stop and it is very annoying when it interferes with anything I am doing. I have to hit 'OK' every single time in order to get rid of it. Can anyone help me figure out how to get rid of this? I have read of a few other people with the same issue but no one seems to be able to offer any suggestions.
Thanks

Your warranty includes 90 days of phone support. Call AppleCare and let them figure it out.

OT: Thunderbolt drive not ejected properly error message

Hello all: I've got a MBPro 17 and a less than a month old LaCie 2T Rugged Thunderbolt/USB3.0 drive that I've started using. The drive randomly ejects itself and of course at the worst times. It could either be in use or nothing going and it just ejects.
I've replaced the drive once at the Apple Store, but I think it's the OSX or ??? Any ideas?
Thanks,
Tolbert

this may be an issue with my USB hub...its USB 3.0 with two "extra" powered all the time....one HD is just a normal non powred travel drive (seagate) and had a FIT with the powered port just now. I have moved ALL external drives to the "normal" spots on the hub and see if its just the hub acting up

Disc not ejected properly message...

Can anyone help, since updating OSX from Lion to Maverick on my MacBook now i cant open files on my CF card thats connected via a USB 3.0 Kingston Card Reader. Wether i try to open in Adobe Camera Raw, Canon DPP or just Finder i get the same result where i get a message saying 'Disc not ejected properly'. It then ejects and remounts the card continuously! My SD slot in the Macbook works fine for the record. Ive googled this issue and it seems others have previously had this issue when upgrading to earlier OSX versions. However there are no fixes as far as i can see.
I cant even upgrade the Card Readers firmware as it is a Windows download only! Im now wondering if i will have other problems with USB devices such as my Wacom Tablet.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Phil

I have the same problem with my retina pro 15. Since a downloaded Maverick Os X 10.9 I can't read my photos with the CF reader. The sistem shows the mesage Disc Not Ejected Properly.
I'm very concern about this because I can't work my photos.

Error message "disc not ejected properly"

Keep getting error "disc not ejected properly" while trying to upload raw images - at this time I have not touched my card reader and my computer has not gone to sleep. Help

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Mountain Lion Upgrade, now I am getting a "disk not ejected properly" error

I just upgraded to Mountain Lion and I am getting a "disk not ejected properly" error on my external time machine backup drive. Can I fix this myself?

Maybe the Seagate needs some firmware or other update to be compatible. Tried Google or Seagate for any info?
Sometimes with TM you almost need to start fresh... keep what you have as is as backup archive.
And don't use just one backup set or method. Redundant, one off line, and clone your volumes in addition to what TM offers.
If you can only use it via USB what about FW or eSATA?

"disk was not ejected properly" errors

I have 3 external Lacie drives (all Thunderbolt) connected to my iMac: 2 3TB drives and 1 512 GB SSD.
I back up my internal 3TB Fusion drive to both 3TB external Lacie drives at the end of each day.
(The SSD is used strictly as a scratch disk (I'm a professional landscape photographer). The SSD is always kept on, BTW.)
After I back up to these 2 3TB drives, I always eject them and then turn them off before putting the iMac to sleep. (The only time I have them running is during backups at the end of each work day.)
However, during the past couple of weeks I've been receiving the "disk was not ejected properly" error every time I wake the iMac. I'm 100% certain that each of the 3TB drives was properly ejected before turning them off (and then subsequently putting the iMac to sleep).
Restarting the iMac doesn't change the situation in the sense that every time I thereafter put the iMac to sleep I get the error message upon waking.
Any ideas....?

After doing some further testing, it appears it's the SSD.
With the two separate 3 TB completely shut down, then doing a restart with the only operating drive being the SSD, then putting the iMac to sleep, upon waking I get the same error message.
After contacting Lacie about this they advised taking two specific steps:
(1) switching the polarity of the thunderbolt cable.
This didn't help.
(2) making sure to manually eject the SSD in the Finder before putting the iMac to sleep.
This didn't help either.
I get the same error message upon waking the iMac.
After contacting Lacie a second time (today) they say that it is the Mac OS that's the problem, not the drive. I find this hard to believe, but technically I'm not expert enough to be able to know whether or not they are telling the truth. (I doubt it.)
Although I have done a Disk Utility test of the SSD and everything indeed tests out fine.

The Dreaded 'Disk Wasn't Ejected Properly' Error Message

Hi,
brand new machine - hooked up an external USB 3 drive and switched Time Machine on.
When the computer sleeps, it awakes to 'Disk Wasn't Ejected Properly' error message.
Apple Support weren't much support, they had NO fix.
Any ideas?

If your OS is 10.8.5 then this is a known issue. A fix is in the works.

Disc Not Ejected Properly keeps popping up every 5 mins or so

How do I stop this from happening all the time???

Hi Eric,
Your a legend!!!! This seen to have fixed the problem. The only thing is do I have to leave the "config file" on the desktop?
Robster50Jan 25, 2014 12:05 AM Re: Disk not ejected properly
Re: Disk not ejected properlyin response to iPhabio | This solved my question
Hi All
I am not sure if the fix I am about to relay will work for everyone here BUT it has certainly worked for me!
I have a new MBPr which I migrated from my old MBPr and immeadiatly started to get the problems described in this forum.
I have investigaed most of the solutions suggested here and elsewhere without any success, I did install Jettison but while this masked the problem it actually stopped most of my backups working!
So I called Apple support and pushed it very hard until I had a Teir 2 person on the line and she was incredibly helpful, supportive and instisted she woudl ge the problem fixed and she delivered.
She pinned the problem down to the migration from the older machine/prefs corruption.
I will try and record here exactly what we did.
Instructions
1. Pull out your ethernet cable and disable WiFi and any other network connectivity you have.
2. Open Finder, go to your computer and then select you Macintosh HD (or whatever you have renamed it).
3. Go to Macintosh HD - Library - Preferences
4. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the list and you ewill see a folder called SystemConfiguration
5. Pull this folder onto the desktop.
6. Go to System Preferences - Sharing and change the name of your computer, even just a litlle bit.
7. Reboot
8. Re-enable Wifi and Ethernet
9. If you have installed Jettison, remove it and remove it from your start up items.
You shoudl be good to go.
My machine was constantly ejecting my USB drive, even if left for onnly 10-15 minutes, since doing this I have not had one single ejection and I am into 48 plus hours of run time.
If you like what Jettison does but don't want to eject the disks everytime your computer sleeps and it will!, then try UnDock from the Mac App store.
Very similar functionality BUT it is a manual process.
In my case if I am going to be going out I will simply use the key combo I hae seletced Ctrl-Alt-Command plus U and all my external devices undock.
I really hope this helps one or more you you guys.
Robin

USB and SD card both ejected when ejecting only one, message shows one disc not ejected properly

I have a late 2012 iMac running OSX Mavericks. I had a USB memory stick (32gb Sandisk USB3.0) and a Sandisk 32gb Extreme SD mounted at the same time. When I ejected the USB stick both disappeared from finder and a notification showed saying that the SD card was not ejected properly. I'm sure this issue present prior to Mavericks - can anyone shed any light on the cause and what to do to prevent data corruption? Many thanks.

EDIT:
The machine went to the Genius Bar. The Genius replicated the issue, and recommended a left-side IO board replacement. That procedure was performed, and at first appeared to address the issue. SD cards inserted in the store ejected and re-mounted successfully.
The issue has re-emerged, however, so it was clearly not a hardware (only) problem. When I mount the SD card named "Small Test" in the machine after a restart, the machine sees the card and shows the following messages in Console:
18.1.15 17:55:39.000 kernel[0]: hfs: mounted Small Test on device disk4s1
18.1.15 17:55:39.702 mds[34]: (Volume.Normal:2464) volume:0x7fbe16032a00 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:0 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:/Volumes/Small Test/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1 occlude:0 /Volumes/Small Test
That indicated to me that Spotlight was indexing the SD card. I added the card to Spotlight's privacy settings, and the next time I mounted it I got this message in Console:
18.1.15 17:55:52.000 kernel[0]: hfs: mounted Small Test on device disk4s1
18.1.15 17:58:30.000 kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on Small Test on device disk4s1
So that's good. That's what is supposed to happen.
But after a period of time (a short period) after the SD card ejected, when put back into the slot it did not mount. Same behavior as before. This indicates to me that it's NOT a Spotlight problem but rather something else, something that is time-dependent. But I don't know what process that is. Time Machine, perhaps? I added the SD card to Time Machine exclusions as well, but to no avail. Plus, I'd have to do this for EACH SD card I insert, which seems ridiculous.
Clearly something is going on between the OS, the SD hardware, and the SD card. But I'm flummoxed as to what it is.

Logic pro 9 keeps crashing. I get a "disc not ejected properly" message among other error messages. I can't even force quit. It makes me do the hard shutdown. Any ideas? Same problem with both external hard drives

Getting lots of crazy error messages pertaining to the external hard drives. This problem is bad. Usually can't run the software very long at all before it crashes. Logic version 9.1.8 running on OS 10.7.5 on a Macbook Pro

Such an error is being reported by OS X (nothing to do with Logic) and indicates that your Mac and your external drives are losing connection for some reason... There are some external drives that will incorrectly 'go to sleep' without reporting it to OS X which then thinks the drives have been unplugged without ejecting, hence the msg.
Also, you could have a flaky physical connection somewhere.. so check ports and cables....
So... to troubleshoot.. try the following...
Save and place a small text file on each of the drives.. Open both text files in textedit.. and keep them open (You can minimize textedit ) Now, see if you still get that problem.. when the files are kept open.
If you do not get this problem.. then the likelohood is it will be the HDs 'going to sleep' without proper reporting to OS X.. so check for a firmware update from the HD's manufacturer.. that will stop this from happening.
If they still disconnect, its more likely it is a physical ports and cable issue.

''iTunes was not installed properly'' - Error Message

I got several attempts to download the iTunes in my Dell Laptop but still I keep getting this error message ''iTunes was not properly installed.If you wish to import or burn CDs you need to reinstall iTunes'' before it opens. What should I do with these? Please Help. Thanks!

Hi RoelAberin,
If you want to make sure that you are completely removing and reinstalling all components of iTunes, you may find the following article helpful:
Apple Support: Removing and reinstalling iTunes and other software components for Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
Regards,
- Brenden

VSH may not load properly - Error message in config file

Hi again,
I use the following eem script to copy the running config to a tftp-server:
event manager applet SAVE_CONFIG_TFTP event cli match "copy running-config startup-config" action 1.0 cli copy running-config tftp://1.2.3.4/SWITCHNAME-eem.cfg vrf management action 2.0 event-default
When I open the config file on the tftp-server with an editior I see the following error message on top of the configuration:
SH may not load properly. (Not enough memory resource)Please check rlimit of your process.Errno: 1; Error string: Operation not permittedTYPE : 3new softlimit bf8c45e8 hardlimit bf8c45ecold softlimit f4240 hardlimit f4240!Command: show running-config!Time: Fri Apr 26 11:21:12 2013version 6.1(3)feature-set fexfeature-set mpls[...]
Besides this message I have not yet seen any negative impact. I googled for the error message and found a Cisco bug CSCsr06310 which should have been fixed in NX-OS 4.0(4)
Anyone an idea what this is about? Is there anything I can do about it?
Regards
Pille

Hi Joseph,
to be honest the negative impact of this error is not big enough to justifiy the effort of opening a TAC case. Thanks for your answer anyway.
Regards Pille

Getting "could not initialize photoshop" error message on launch.

I'm getting this error message when launching Photoshop CC.. I uninstalled it, then reinstalled it. I'm not sure if I updated before I had this problem initially, but I'm getting the same message on launch of the newly installed PHotoshop. I'm running Mavericks on a MacBook Pro.
Help?!

Can you confirm that this is Photoshop 7? The version that dates back to 2002?
What operating system are you using? It sounds like a reasonably up to date computer, and I am not sure if Photoshop 7 would even run on Windows 7 and Windows 8.
You have all sorts of issues if it is Photoshop 7. Being 32 bit, it won't be able to access most of your 8Gb — probably more like 2.5Gb. It might also have problems with large HDDs. Hmmm.... just read your post again, and I see you have a 1.5Tb boot drive. I have a strong feeling Windows 7 would not play nicely with that.
So let's confirm what Photoshop version and operating system you are using before we get carried away.

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