Re: Ejecting a USB flash drive with a keyboard shortcut [was Re: MBP Keyboard]

2011-12-20 Thread Chris Blouch
Ditto. I've also has some badly behaved apps that keep their fingers in the flash drive even after I have closed the document I had opened from there. So sometimes I had to quit apps before the Mac would let me eject the drive. CB On 12/19/11 5:00 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Ezzie and Others, The

Ejecting a USB flash drive with a keyboard shortcut [was Re: MBP Keyboard]

2011-12-19 Thread Esther
Hi Ezzie and Others, The usual reason that a drive fails to eject is that it is still in use. This could be either because a copy or write operation is still going on and transferring data, or because you have navigated into the file structure of the drive in Finder to query contents. I do fi

Re: MBP Keyboard

2011-12-19 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I guess I'm old fashion. lol. I prefer to bring up the context menu with VO shift M and just press enter on eject. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Dec 19, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Y'all. > Command E does not alway

Re: MBP Keyboard

2011-12-19 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Y'all. Command E does not always work for me, especially on thumb drives. I was told by Apple that if you are writing to the drive and it gets ejected too soon, you can mess up your thumb drive. Therefore, these days I always check to see if my drive is on my list of active devices before I

RE: MBP Keyboard

2011-12-19 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi Ezzie, Command+E should eject the drive. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ezzie bueno Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 1:55 PM To: macvoiceo...@freelists.org; macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: MBP Keyb