I have a USB device that occasionally loses its link to the system. Is there some command line magic that will unmount/remount all USB devices? This device is installed in a system where it's not ...

I have a USB external HDD that I connect to every day at work for Time Machine backups. I keep forgetting to unmount/eject it when I leave for the day, resulting in dire warnings from my MBP. I'm ...

Some users of Mac OS X 10.4.2 experience an issue primarily affecting FireWire drives (though USB drives are also affected), where the devices or partitions refuse to unmount. MacFixIt reader Stan ...

We previously covered an issue where FireWire devices refuse to unmount properly under Mac OS X 10.4.2. Previously, we reported that in some cases, the "Auto-Protect" component of Norton AntiVirus ...

At the office, I have a MacBook Pro hooked up to an 1TB LaCie drive. I’ve partitioned that external into two volumes: one for Time Machine, the other for maintaining a bootable clone of the MacBook’s ...

Kurt Jefferson wants El Capitan to let his drives go! Sometimes the drive won’t unmount no matter what, and I get the dreaded “The disk wasn’t ejected because one or more programs may be using it” or ...

Enhanced Session Mode allows you to redirect local devices and resources to a virtual machine session with the help of the Virtual Machine Connection tool. This feature is enabled by default on ...