Bring Finder to the foreground, then select Finder > Preferences in the menu bar (or press Command+Comma on your keyboard). Tip: If you don’t see a removable disk on your desktop, you can enable that feature easily. Once you release your pointer button, the drive will eject. While dragging, the Trash icon will change into an eject symbol. To eject, just click and drag the drive’s icon to your Trash can. To do so, the drive must be visible on your desktop. One of the oldest ways to eject a removable drive on a Mac is to drag it to the Trash. Once you officially eject the drive, no data will be lost when you physically unplug the removable drive from your Mac. When you click “Eject” on a removable disk, the temporary write process finalizes, writing 100% of the data to the actual device. If you unplug a drive before that data has been written, it could be lost. Here’s why: To speed up the perceived operation of writing data to an external drive, macOS sometimes writes data to a temporary location in memory instead of writing it to the disk. Ejecting a disk on a Mac is a necessary step to prevent the loss of data.
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