One possible fix for a non-ejecting disk image problem

Dec 29, '08 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: macHobbes

There have been a number of reports that the Leopard Finder silently ignores your wish to eject disks and disk images, no matter if you click the Eject button in the Finder's sidebar, drag the disk to the Trash, or right-click and choose Eject. The only simple work around was using the hard disk utility.

I had the same problem with my MacBook Pro for the last couple of month -- and accidentally found a solution looking at the recent version of Onyx. In Onyx, you have the option to remove the Eject Disk menu item from the File menu of the Finder. It turned out that at some point in the past I had removed that item, and then forgot about doing so. Restoring the missing menu solved the above problem.

Of course, I do not know if this is of any help for other people with the same disk eject problem.

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