Eject disk images when Finder sidebar is not visible

Jul 09, '12 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

In Lion, Apple did away with the button in the upper right corner of Finder windows, which allowed the sidebar to be toggled on and off. I used this frequently for ejecting disk images after I installed new software. Clicking on this button toggled the sidebar which allowed me to find the disk image and click on the eject button next do the disk image icon.

With this button now gone, I needed a faster way to eject a disk image than opening a new Finder window and ejecting. After playing around for a second I found out that by right-clicking anywhere in the mounted disk image's window, I could choose Eject . This is actually faster than the previous method I used. I'm not sure how long that has been a feature, but in is in Lion.

[kirkmc adds: I'm assuming that the poster means that he uses this for disk images that open in their own windows without a sidebar visible. I would just press Command-Option-S to show it (or hide it). But it's true that right-clicking and ejecting can be a bit quicker, if you don't have another Finder window open where you can click to eject the disk image.]

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