What the title says. Getting tiresome.
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?
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.