Hi there, I connected perfectly healthy Seagate mini 2 TB USB drive to my Synology DS923+ NAS drive. I moved files back and forth and everything was fine and dandy until I just unplugged a drive and went to connect it to my iMac. Sure, NAS software said, next time unmount drive before unplugging it. But that was after the fact. Mac can’t see it no matter what. In Disk utility it’s there but can’t be mounted, erased, formatted, read or written. What can I do? Will PC be better in connecting to that drive. As of now it acts bricked.
Thanks. I’m aware of that, but unfortunately there’s nothing to tell you what is keeping it from being released. Heck even just plugging it in without accessing it, it can be locked.
The only thing I’ve found is this utility that costs $30: https://safelyremove.com/features.htm
This is the kind of stuff that should be made readily available by the OS instead of a generic “can’t eject now” nonsense.
I just disable windows caching to USB devices, and solves the problem, but shouldn’t need to.