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soooty

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Aug 3, 2018
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SDXC drive has not been ejected at all dumass MacBook!!

Why is it not possible to sleep the laptop (13in macbook air 2014) overnight without waking up to the obligatory failure of the SDXC port with a message saying my card was not ejected properly? Anyone know?

Its a pain in the ass as i have a flush fit card holder which is difficult to grab to pull out and push in again to reset. And there is absolutley nowhere I find find in setting or disc utility to make force the laptop to remount the card without me physically taking it out. Any tips appreciated

It worries me if i have fcpx projects stored on the card that i've put hundreds of hours into working on.. never know if the card might get corrupt when it keeps ejecting them randomly. Same nonsence with external usb3 drives that randomly eject themselves.. worse with those as they do it when I'm actively working with files on them.
 
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SDXC drive has not been ejected at all dumass MacBook!!

Why is it not possible to sleep the laptop (13in macbook air 2014) overnight without waking up to the obligatory failure of the SDXC port with a message saying my card was not ejected properly? Anyone know?

Its a pain in the ass as i have a flush fit card holder which is difficult to grab to pull out and push in again to reset. And there is absolutley nowhere I find find in setting or disc utility to make force the laptop to remount the card without me physically taking it out. Any tips appreciated

It worries me if i have fcpx projects stored on the card that i've put hundreds of hours into working on.. never know if the card might get corrupt when it keeps ejecting them randomly. Same nonsence with external usb3 drives that randomly eject themselves.. worse with those as they do it when I'm actively working with files on them.

Leave it plugged into the PSU overnight.
In Energy Saver, untick 'put hard disks to sleep when possible'
You may have to change Computer Sleep to Never

I forget the details but IIRC its something to do with the Deep sleep (not the initial hour or two lighter sleep) that kills the +5V supply to the internal USB hub which is also handling your SD slot

This has been an energy saving 'feature' since one of the Mountain Lion updates.

At the risk of being Captain Obvious, you need to have a Time-Machine HDD going if you have loads of FCP video. I'd be doing a snapshot at least weekly too as TM doesn't always restore.
 
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