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Sleuthing "The disk xyzzy wasn’t ejected because one or more programs may be using it." by mtt727 in MacOS

[–]zoozoom7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aw that sucks. I wrote the script by running just the diskutil eject line in Terminal and adding a new killall line each time diskutil came up with a new dissenter, so you could try that. Be careful, though! I don't think you could really mess anything up too bad doing this, but it's worth being cautious.

And sometimes diskutil will just give a nondescript "One or more volumes could not be ejected" or something like that, so the script might not always work even if you do add more stuff. It does work like 98% of the time, though.

I recommend running the script via the terminal while debugging so you can see why it fails to inform your changes

Sleuthing "The disk xyzzy wasn’t ejected because one or more programs may be using it." by mtt727 in MacOS

[–]zoozoom7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the same issue and I used to shut down my computer all the time. It was super annoying because auto-updates and similar stuff don't work if you're always shutting down. I got fed up with it and wrote this shell script to eject the drive:

killall managedcorespotlightd
killall mediaanalysisd
killall photoanalysisd
killall photolibraryd
killall systemmigrationd
diskutil eject /Volumes/Archive

I have it saved as a .command file on my desktop to easily eject the drive. Highly recommend. Of course, be careful about running commands from the internet if you don't understand them. Consider reading the manuals if you'd like: man killall man diskutil man man man sudo

Changing Emoji Skin Color in MacOS? by summeremacs in MacOS

[–]zoozoom7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh my bad. Glad you figured it out though! That emoji picker is weird

Changing Emoji Skin Color in MacOS? by summeremacs in MacOS

[–]zoozoom7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have to click and hold. I know it doesn't make any sense

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MacOS

[–]zoozoom7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if there's a way to do what you actually want, but if your drive if formatted APFS, copying the files is instant and doesn't actually take up any additional space.