It was really irritating at first, since everything I tried (including messing with Spotlight settings and trying to figure stuff out using lsof) didn't work. I have several Western Digital Passport external drives that I use with my older MacBook Pro and I've had (I think) similar problems, but the carnage is only limited to are only on the Western Digital external drive, not the MacBook Pro internal drive. It still will not eject, and upon further investigation in terminal, the file was not actually deleted, but securely relocated to the 501 Trashes folder where I can't seem to reach it, and it still will not allow me to eject.Įdit 2: thanks for the downvotes, I will never understand this place.įirstly, just to clarify: when you say "corrupt the entire hard drive" do you mean "corrupt the Western Digital external hard drive" or do you mean "corrupt the internal drive on the MacBook Pro"? I made a backup and deleted the file from the drive. musiclibrary file for Apple Music App on the external drive. At this point I just want to scream.Īny serious input would be greatly appreciated. If I dare to unplug it (or even worse, restart the computer), even with nothing but a freshly relaunched Finder running, it will immediately corrupt the entire hard rive and I will have to spend the next couple of days running data recovery software. My hard drive has been running non-stop for months now and my computer is a cumbersome paperweight at this point, the opposite of what a laptop is supposed to be.
They tell me just shut the computer down whenever I want to pick it up and move it, which is ridiculous. I've wasted over twenty hours across multiple painful and protracted Apple Support calls, and no one I talk to seems to know anything. I've tried force quitting the QuickLookUI stuff in Activity Monitor. Neither made any difference, both did nothing - contrary to how it goes if spaces are included, in which case it says no such volume exists. I've followed the advice given here, and tried with both no spaces and underscores for spaces as the volume name since it didn't specify how to describe the name of a volume with spaces in its name. My Mac will not permit me to eject my Western Digital Passport external hard drive.
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