Eject Disks

Convince Finder to eject disks

Eject Disks 0.2

Leopard sometimes can be a little reluctant to eject disks and disk images in the Finder.  You can click the eject button in the Finder sidebar, drag the disk to the Trash or right-click and choose Eject, but Finder just silently ignores you.  You can open Disk Utilty and eject it fine through there (unless there are files open on it of course).  This script is so you can eject troublesome disks quickly and easily even in Finder refuses to, and can also tell you which applications are stopping the disk being ejected as opposed to the Finder’s “something is open on that disk, but I’m not telling you what”!

Tested on:

• Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
• Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Licensed under the GPL. Download the Eject Disks 0.2 script application (zip).

Changelog:

• 0.2
  • Added network volume support.
  • Changed disk discovery from using Finder in applescript to using System Events (so no throwing error tantrums anymore if there are no ejectable disks, just a blank list).
  • More robust error parsing, won’t return a success on a failure as often.
• 0.1
  • Initial release.