Cannot Eject Pegasus3 R6 After MacOS Sequoia Update

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Raymond Sherman posted this 09 November 2024

Hi, I cannot eject my Pegasus3 R6 since I updaed from MacOS Ventura to Sequoia 15.1 I installed the latest DEXT driver 21.1.0 and made sure it's enabled by double clicking on it in Applications. I do receive the Force Eject pop-up upon trying to eject (below) stating that other programs programs are using it. I don't have any open apps and/or programs open. I also confirmed that by looking at both my tab bar and using the keyboard shortcut Cmd/Tab. Other than that, everything is loading / opening w/o any issues. I have restarted my 16" MacBook Pro M1 Max several times with the same result. If anyone has any suggestions for a fix, I would sincerely appreciate your input. Thank You. Ray

 

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R P posted this 12 November 2024

Hi Raymond,

Most likely Spotlight is busy indexing the disk. I've also had issues with this even with USB flash drives. I insert the flash drive to copy a screenshot and it won't eject, it's very annoying. WIth the flash drive I've started just removing it. Mostly this is not a problem, but on rare occasion a repair is indicated (but apparently not needed).

A quick google should find instructions on how to exclude a drive from spotlight, but this may be sufficient.

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Raymond Sherman posted this 17 November 2024

Thank you for the help.... I followed your instructions in which the Privacy window was empty. I clicked on Search Privacy > add (+) to prevent Spotlight from searching these locations. My Pegasus was not in the list. I also changed Full Security to Reduced Security under Hardware > Controller > Boot Policy as Promise support suggested. Also, I have a 2TB Seagate external HD that won't eject as well. Thanks again, I sincerely appreciate your help in trying to get this resolved. Ray

Raymond Sherman posted this 17 November 2024

I did find my external HD in the dropdown choice window. I was able to add it to the list as shown below. I then backed out of System Settings and tried to eject the drive..... No luck. I proceeded in logging off / on.... No luck. Problem remains. I have tried three externa HD's which won't eject.

System Settings > Spotlight > Search Privacy > Privacy +/- window > + > (Chose the EHD) in the Choose window > (Confirmed) Privacy window

 

 

I went ahead and downgraded back to Ventura overnight by using a bootable disc wiping my Mac clean. I then followed up by using my last Time Machine back up from Ventura. Everything is now working properly as it did before in Ventura. At this point, I believe the problem is Sequoia 15.1.... Thanks again 

R P posted this 20 November 2024

Hi Raymond,

You can just drag the desktop disk icon into the blank area.

Also, you probably have to reboot for this to take effect. If indexing has started I don't think adding the Pegasus to the do not index list will stop an index in progress. It just tells macOS not to start an indexing on that disk or folder.

Spotlight is not the only program that can be responsible here, it's just the primary suspect.

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