What the title says. Getting tiresome.
I have a NAS that I do TMB’s to and I haven’t had a complaint about the drive not being connected when I leave the network.
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Yuppers
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I use an app to unmount all external drives at 6am every day. I don’t usually go out with my Mac before that timing.
What app
Tq
Yup
I don’t.
But, it is a good practice to eject if it is your only Time Machine drive. I back up to two places so I am not worried so much.
Yes. I also have two partitions on the external hard drive so I hold down alt / option to eject both at once.
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Yes, and even though I’ve only forgotten to eject it a few times, one of those times was enough to corrupt the drive to the point where I had to reformat it and lose my backups.
wow. Good lesson. Thank you. Do you remember which macOS version this happened to? I don’t expect that Sonoma would have brought further enhancements but maybe.
It’s not a matter of the OS version, it’s a result of unplugging a drive while data is being written to it.
yes!