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Sometimes a hard drive will not "unmount" because there are applications being run from it.
Is there a way to find out what those applications are?
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Is there a way to find what applications are running on an external hard drive?
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dougster 
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Posted 17 October 2008 - 01:50 PM
-Hi,
Are you sure its an Application and not Spotlight 'indexing'? The reason I ask for example: After backing up our Macs to an external firewire HD using SuperDuper, you can't unmount the external HD until its finished indexing. One way to tell is hold the cursor over Spotlight-->it'll say Indexing and there is a tiny, tiny white light blinking/flashing w/in the Spotlight icon top/right of the display.
If the above isn't the case and you are booted from the external w/ OSX installed launch Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. It'll tell you what apps are running.
Are you sure its an Application and not Spotlight 'indexing'? The reason I ask for example: After backing up our Macs to an external firewire HD using SuperDuper, you can't unmount the external HD until its finished indexing. One way to tell is hold the cursor over Spotlight-->it'll say Indexing and there is a tiny, tiny white light blinking/flashing w/in the Spotlight icon top/right of the display.
If the above isn't the case and you are booted from the external w/ OSX installed launch Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. It'll tell you what apps are running.
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Grapho
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Posted 17 October 2008 - 05:02 PM
It could also be set as a scratch drive, depending on the software you are using. Applications could be placing swap files on it. Some times applications wright virtual memory to a drive, or it could be that you have a file opened from it that your Mac seems to want to keep on it's memory. To many variables to give you a straight answer.
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