{"id":45292,"date":"2024-10-08T16:16:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=45292"},"modified":"2024-10-08T16:16:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T20:16:57","slug":"jettison-1-8-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/jettison-1-8-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Jettison 1.8.9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stclairsoft.com\/Jettison\/release.html\">St. Clair Software<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.stclairsoft.com\/Jettison\/release.html\"><ul><li>When you set keyboard shortcuts for ejecting, sleeping and remounting, they are now shown in Jettison&rsquo;s menu.<\/li><li>Fixed a bug that could result in an error message when manually mounting a volume even though the volume mounts correctly.<\/li><li>When an encrypted disk cannot be mounted because its password is not in the keychain, the error message explains how to fix the problem.<\/li><\/ul><\/blockquote>\n<p>The app is presented as a way to eject external drives before putting your Mac to sleep. I use it for other things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><p>When I&rsquo;m done for the day, I eject certain spinning hard drives that can be loud and to prevent Time Machine from churning all night.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Since Big Sur or so, macOS sometimes doesn&rsquo;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.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Since around the same time, Finder has not been reliable at showing when a drive has actually been unmounted, so that it&rsquo;s safe to disconnect it. Sometimes the drive&rsquo;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.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/16\/ejecting-external-disks-with-macos-13\/\">Ejecting External Disks With macOS 13<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/27\/ventura-issues\/\">Ventura Issues<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/18\/invasive-spotlight-indexing\/\">Invasive Spotlight Indexing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/24\/remaining-issues-in-big-sur\/\">Remaining Issues in Big Sur<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/ejector-1-0\/\">Ejector 1.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/10\/st-clair-software-leaves-the-mac-app-store\/\">St. Clair Software Leaves the Mac App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Clair Software: When you set keyboard shortcuts for ejecting, sleeping and remounting, they are now shown in Jettison&rsquo;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-10-08T20:17:00Z","apple_news_api_id":"9205290a-0c72-47ef-a174-95a722067b49","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-10-08T20:17:00Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AkgUpCgxyR--hdJWnIgZ7SQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[538,458,2667,30,2385,1841,174,216],"class_list":["post-45292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-diskutility","tag-finder","tag-jettison","tag-mac","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-sleep","tag-storage","tag-timemachine"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45293,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45292\/revisions\/45293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}