Jettison 1.8.9
- When you set keyboard shortcuts for ejecting, sleeping and remounting, they are now shown in Jettison’s menu.
- Fixed a bug that could result in an error message when manually mounting a volume even though the volume mounts correctly.
- When an encrypted disk cannot be mounted because its password is not in the keychain, the error message explains how to fix the problem.
The app is presented as a way to eject external drives before putting your Mac to sleep. I use it for other things:
When I’m done for the day, I eject certain spinning hard drives that can be loud and to prevent Time Machine from churning all night.
Since Big Sur or so, macOS sometimes doesn’t auto-mount drives when I connect them. I can usually do this with Jettison, although sometimes I still need to fire up Disk Utility in order to see the drives.
Since around the same time, Finder has not been reliable at showing when a drive has actually been unmounted, so that it’s safe to disconnect it. Sometimes the drive’s icon will still be shown after ejecting. Other times the icon disappears too soon, leading to errors when I disconnect the drive. Jettison shows a progress window that seems to accurately tell me when the process has completed.
Previously:
- Ejecting External Disks With macOS 13
- Ventura Issues
- Invasive Spotlight Indexing
- Remaining Issues in Big Sur
- Ejector 1.0
- St. Clair Software Leaves the Mac App Store
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Thanks for this
I always shutdown my Mac and unplug every time I want to unmount a drive
TimeMachineEditor might help you set the hours of skipping Time Machine.
