![]() But no one can accuse DeLong of greed since he’s openly asking Apple to “ Sherlock” his app at the bottom of Ejector’s Web page, even including a Radar link that Apple developers can follow to formally request the feature from Apple. There isn’t anything else to the app, which might make you balk at its $9.99 price, though there is a 7-day free trial. If that’s the case, press the Option key to perform a force-eject. As always, if there are files (even invisible ones) open on a volume that you want to eject, macOS won’t let you eject it. What can you eject? DeLong lists “partitions, disk images, network drives, or external drives.” In short, you can eject any mounted volume other than your boot drive. However, if you have a macro utility like Keyboard Maestro, you could assign the Ejector app to any key combination. Alas, if you have a Mac that lacks either an Eject key or a Touch Bar, you’re out of luck-there’s currently no way to connect the eject action to a key of your choosing. No Eject key on your MacBook Pro? No problem, because Ejector also supports the Touch Bar, displaying an eject button in the Control Strip. No need to lift your hands from the keyboard! Choose one and click Eject, or you can use the arrow keys to select a volume and press Return to eject it. It runs in the background, and when you press the Eject key, a window opens showing all ejectable volumes. For the rest of us, this is where Dave DeLong’s clever Ejector app comes in.Įjector is incredibly simple. But if you don’t have an Apple USB SuperDrive, that Eject key sits quietly-sad, lonely, and seldom touched (unless you like pressing Control-Eject to bring up a dialog with buttons for Restart, Sleep, and Shut Down, or Control-Shift-Eject to sleep the screen). And many people still have older MacBooks and keyboards with Eject keys. It has been years since Apple last shipped a Mac with an internal optical drive, yet both the Magic Keyboard and Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad still include an Eject key. #1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.#1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser. ![]() Growl support provides onscreen confirmation whenever a volume is mounted or ejected. For example, it can display, next to its menu-bar icon, the number of mounted volumes, and you can choose to prevent the startup disk and internal hard drives from appearing in the menu. Semulov also provides a number of display options. (There’s a useful option to prevent internal drives from being unmounted and, of course, Semulov never tries to unmount the startup disk.) (Semulov conveniently groups items by type.) Choose a volume from the menu and it’s immediately ejected/unmounted, or choose the Eject All command to quickly eject all mounted volumes. Semulov- volumes spelled backwards, in case you missed it-adds an eject icon to your menu bar click on this icon to view a menu of all currently-mounted volumes-hard drives, flash drives, CDs, DVDs, network volumes, iPods, disk images…anything that can be mounted and ejected in the Finder. I found it in Kevin Wojniak’s free Semulov 1.3 ( ). This is admittedly a minor problem, but one that led me to look for a more-convenient solution for ejecting volumes.
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