[m021478]

One of my external hard drives simply refuses to eject, and I've done everything I can think of to terminate any processes and/or applications that may be using the drive and preventing it from being ejected properly, but I haven't had any success...

Is there some Mac-Jedi way of going about isolating what might be preventing this drive from ejecting properly?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!

[Big Mac]

Yeah, that can be annoying. Sometimes you just need to log all users out. That usually works.

[zro]

I've had fonts do that to me.

In Terminal you could try...

Code:
lsof '/Volumes/name of volume'

to see what if anything is actually open.

If nothing is returned, you can force unmount it.

Code:
umount -f 'Volumes/name of drive'

No telling what if any problem that may cause to what's keeping you from ejecting it.

[Big Mac]

I bow to the better and more technical solution.

[m021478]

Originally Posted by zro 

I've had fonts do that to me.

In Terminal you could try...

Code:
lsof '/Volumes/name of volume'

to see what if anything is actually open.

If nothing is returned, you can force unmount it.

Code:
umount -f 'Volumes/name of drive'

No telling what if any problem that may cause to what's keeping you from ejecting it.

Thanks for the great tip...I'll give it a shot!