Finder is chastising you for a reason... Are you unplugging the drive or shutting it off before Finder can say goodbye? Treat the backup drive as any other storage device, ie: un-mount properly before disconnecting. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 31, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Mary Read <m.k.read@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At last I have something that's on-topic! Although I'm afraid it's not > commentary -- it's another request for help. I'm hoping someone in the group > will be familiar with the Time Capsule/external drive glitch I'm > experiencing, or be able to point me in the right direction to resolution. > I've already gone through Apple Care for assistance, but the problem > persists. > > I've got two backup systems in place: a Western Digital 2TB USB drive using > Carbon Copy Clone for archiving only my working files, plus a second HD > (Seagate USB 2TB) that uses Time Machine to back up my whole system. Both HDs > are plugged directly into main USB ports on my iMac 27", since I understand > that a hub can make externals unhappy. > > The CCC backup works very well, but the Seagate drive with Time Machine sends > me an error message at least once every hour saying: > > "The disk was not ejected properly. If possible, always eject a disk before > unplugging it or turning it off." > > I check on my desktop and the icon for the HD is there, so it has not > unmounted. Time Machine completes its routine despite the warning -- although > not hourly as I've set its preferences, but here and there as it feels so > inclined. I take this to mean that sometimes it finds the external HD, and > sometimes does not. I can live with less frequent backups, but I am very keen > to get rid of that very pesky finder warning. It interrupts my work at the > most inopportune times. > > I've reformatted the Seagate drive twice, just to see if that would help. > Nada. Any ideas? > > Thank you, > Mary > > > > On 2011-10-31, at 12:56 PM, Frank BIrch wrote: > >> Excuse me for butting in but:- >> >> Remember that Time Capsule is a single point of failure. The odds your >> system would go down with the Time Capsule are not great but if it was a >> massive power spike, that your surge protector could not handle, then you >> are toast. > > > Mary Read > http://www.maryread.com >