Users of Time Machine on an external drive, do you always “eject” before unplugging? - eviltoast

What the title says. Getting tiresome.

  • 25_Watt_Bulb@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year 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.