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Users of Time Machine on an external drive, do you always “eject” before unplugging? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by CoAX@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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What the title says. Getting tiresome.

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[–] 25_Watt_Bulb@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes, and even though I've only forgotten to eject it a few times, one of those times was enough to corrupt the drive to the point where I had to reformat it and lose my backups.

[–] CoAX@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

wow. Good lesson. Thank you. Do you remember which macOS version this happened to? I don't expect that Sonoma would have brought further enhancements but maybe.

[–] 25_Watt_Bulb@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

It's not a matter of the OS version, it's a result of unplugging a drive while data is being written to it.