I'm a very keyboard-based person; I use a keyboard shortcut whenever I can. David Pogue tells of KIAFTMA -- the Keyboard Is Always Faster Than the Mouse Association. So the fact that the Eject key is restricted to the optical drive frustrates me.
To solve the problem, I created an AppleScript to make this easy for me. It calls on the disk powers of System Events and Finder; that way, you can eject any disk (except volumes over intranets like a home network) with a keystroke or two. Here is the code I used:
tell application "System Events" -- I don't target the Finder set diskNames to every disk -- gets the list set diskCount to count disks -- this is important for list 'triage' if diskCount = 0 then -- if an empty list beep else if diskCount = 1 then -- if one item to eject tell application "Finder" to eject (item 1 of diskNames) -- gets the first - and only - item of diskNames; Sys Events cannot eject disks; I could have added a line before else if diskCount > 1 then -- if 2 or more items to eject set disksToEject to choose from list diskNames with prompt "Select a disk to eject:" OK button name "Eject" with multiple selections allowed if disksToEject is not false then -- if you didn't cancel; this avoids the system and you confusion tell application "Finder" repeat with theDisk in disksToEject -- every disk you chose eject theDisk -- duh! -- a whole lot of "end blocks" end repeat end tell end if end if end tell (* Ejector by KOMPILEsoft *)
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