Can't eject disc

[James Stewart]

Hi,

When I am trying to eject my CF cards I am getting the following error



After retstart the problem goes away, and I can work between disks, but after a short time it reappears.

Some notes for information.....

Force Eject doesn't help.
Force Quit and Relaunch Finder doesn't resolve problem.
All programs are closed and nothing is running but still getting error.
I have changed the Privacy preferences in Spotlight to ignore the disks.
CF cards are Sandisk
Card Reader USB 3.0
MacBook Pro (Purchased Nov 2012)
OSX Version 10.8.2
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
4GB 1600MHz DDR3

I have searched various forums and see that this has been a recurring problem for some years but can't seem to find a solution.

Can anyone help me find a solution to this problem?

Many thanks
Jim Stewart

 

[James Stewart]

I'm now having the same problem when ejecting a Huawei E585 modem.

Does anyone have any ideas how I resolve the problem.

Many thanks

James Stewart

 

[James Stewart]

Still having the problem.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Many thanks
Jim Stewart

 

[seveej]

Hi,

When I am trying to eject my CF cards I am getting the following error

SNIP

All programs are closed and nothing is running but still getting error.

Hello Jim,

does your CF card reader have a led for indicating "action"? If so, does is seem like something's accessing the card? I'm also assuming your modem also has some "data partition" so that it appears as a disk drive when you plug it in.

The thing is, there may be programs (especially some image editing programs like Aperture, Bridge, Lightroom) which keep going through connected drives for cataloguing purposes. Some of these even have background programs (these you do not see under "force quit", but you see them in activity monitor).

You can also have a look at this post: http://jonathanj.com/component/content/article/30-monitoring-disk-access-in-mac-os-x

HTH,