How to SAFELY Eject Your External Hard Drive on a Mac

I have a NAS D218. Recently, I've been getting The external device USB Disk 3 on WW_DS218 was not ejected safely. To prevent data loss, ...

The external device USB Disk 1 on Mothership was not ejected properly. To avoid data loss, we recommend ejecting the device before unplugging it.

I am tired of the frequent USB Eject Problem: External device was not ejected properly that happens randomly with my two external drives ...

I was having the same problem with backups to an external drive failing and an error about the USB drive not ejecting properly (WD Elements connected to DS213).

You could temporarily untick Improper external device ejection in Notifications > Events > External Storage (at least that's where it is in ...

USB drives not ejecting after Hyperbackup · 23:19 I turn on the drive, log in as admin, check the drive has mounted and start the backup task · 23 ...

Everything on my DS218 is going well, backups to my external hard drive are going well but I have been getting this message The external device ...

Go to 'Control Panel' (Advanced Mode) - then 'External Devices'. From there, you can select the desired USB drive and click on 'Eject'.

The problem is that the drive is not being gracefully ejected from the NAS which causes a warning to be generated.