Re: What's using my external hard drive preventing it from ejecting?

2009-08-30 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 31/8/09 11:51 AM, Brian Scott scot...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, I have tried selecting the eject triangle in Finder, selecting the drives icon and pressing ⌘-E and ejecting from Disk Utility but I keep getting The disk is in use and could not be ejected Try quitting applications and

Re: What's using my external hard drive preventing it from ejecting?

2009-08-30 Thread Brian Scott
Thank you Daniel. The Terminal advice 'hdiutil eject -force' from your link did the trick, I applied it when the drive was in Power Down mode so nothing was accessing it at the time. After ejecting it I checked the drive again with About This Mac, it came out of Power Down mode but didn't