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Yes, if the computer is still on when I unplug. If it's shutdown, it doesn't matter--nothing could be writing to the drive anyway.
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I use an app to unmount all external drives at 6am every day. I don't usually go out with my Mac before that timing.
Let me ask you this: why would you think you shouldn’t have to? It’s an external drive like any other. The file system has to be quiesced and unmoved cleanly.
It's 2023. Would it be too outlandish to hope or dream that information systems have reached a state where resilience and self-repair make up for sudden and impromptu hardware disconnects?
Well in theory journaling file systems should be able to repair but nothing is perfect. Do you really want to gamble with a backup?
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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.
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.
It's not a matter of the OS version, it's a result of unplugging a drive while data is being written to it.
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Yes of course.
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I don't.
But, it is a good practice to eject if it is your only Time Machine drive. I back up to two places so I am not worried so much.
Yes. I also have two partitions on the external hard drive so I hold down alt / option to eject both at once.
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I have a NAS that I do TMB’s to and I haven’t had a complaint about the drive not being connected when I leave the network.