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One possible fix for a non-ejecting disk image problem
Authored by: Felix on Dec 29, '08 12:03:53PM

I've had that happen very infrequently but was always able to get things working again by Force Quitting (Relaunching) the Finder (Apple Menu --> Force Quit --> Finder).

Also works for things like a download file not showing up on the desktop when you know it's there and Spotlight says it's there...but it's not visible. I've seen that two or three times since upgrading to 10.5.6 on a Unibody MacBook Pro.



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One possible fix for a non-ejecting disk image problem
Authored by: MalEbenSo on Dec 29, '08 09:58:00PM

In fact, if Disk Utility let's you eject but the Finder doesn't, then the Finder itself is somehow still "using" that disk, and the best way is to restart the Finder.

Except, instead of force quitting the Finder, I recommend to use the likes of Tinkertool and Deeper which let you to add a quit-command to the Finder. This will allow the Finder to gracefully quit rather than being killed "brutally".



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