![]() Keyboard and mouse both function perfectly. Last Sunday I turned my iMac on, it boots up and the log-in screen appears. If you made a good-faith effort to solve the problem yourself they may be more inclined to help you, especially if no warranty applies.ĭead logic board – bizarre sequel, long story. It will also help if you can tell them all the tests you’ve tried before bringing it in. Don’t let them put you off by saying the long eject times are normal. Your Mac may still be under warranty if you bought Apple Care. But if the slow eject continues you may want to take it into an Apple store to let them troubleshoot it for you. If you still have a problem, What’s Keeping Me may help you narrow down the problem further. It will eliminate third party extensions and background processes. Safe mode does some behind the scenes component tests and maintenance and excludes all third party startup items and gives you a relatively bare system. The manOS offers no such clue so you will have to hold down the key till the progress bar is roughly two thirds across. Older versions of the Mac OS would give you a message that the computer was starting in Safe mode so you could release the Shift key. Hold down the Shift key and keep it depressed. If the problem persists, restart in Safe mode and test again. The PRAM reset will, among other things, reset the electronic circuits for your USB and Thunderbolt ports, which may improve drive performance. This may take a little time so don’t get impatient. Restart with the Command, Option, P and R keys depressed hold them down until the computer starts again. Sometimes the I/O functions get confused. If the problem appears to be at home, you can reset the PRAM. If it’s not the drives, then the trouble lies with your home computer. If your work and home computers respond the same with both drives-and docks-this will eliminate the drives and docks as the source of the problem. Don’t assume that because they are identical that they are, in fact, identical. ![]() I recommend you try the work disk on your home computer and your home disk at work. ![]() Could be a similar compatibility thing between your drives and your computer. No problems with any other USB sticks I happen to use on my iMac.Īll of which leads me to suspect that particular make/model of USB stick just doesn’t want to play with my 2017 iMac. However, put them in a different computer and they read/write quickly and eject fine. Reading from/writing to them also feels only marginally quicker than USB 2 speed. I’ve reformatted them in various configurations to no avail. Click on Force Eject and it takes another couple of minutes. Then the “couldn’t be ejected because it’s in use” message comes up (even after quitting all apps well before hitting the eject button). They both take “an eternity” to eject – 5+ minutes is not unusual. One of them is currently formatted APFS encrypted and the other is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I’ve also got a couple of 16GB Kingston DataTraveller 100 G3 USB 3.0 sticks. I use 500GB Samsung T5s (formatted APFS encrypted) for my Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner backups. ![]()
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