Finder Sidebar Broken in Leopard (updated)

[David Herren]

On Oct 31, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Andrew Merenbach wrote:

> A quick note: I just tried again and the sidebar works in both  
> cases.  Unfortunately, I still recall it not working as of the past  
> couple of days.  The thing that's different now is that I don't have  
> any external drives attached (and no way to attach them just yet, as  
> I'm away from my drives).
>
> My question now is: Has anyone seen unmounting problems, or sidebar  
> problems in general, and if so--what are the circumstances under  
> which those problems occur?

You're not crazy...I've seen this as well. Drives which won't unmount  
now but an hour later when I try again unmount just fine... I think  
it's possible that something is keeping a file open on those external  
drives and when those files are finally closed, the drive can be  
unmounted. Possibly a spotlight index? Time Machine looking at the  
drive?

/david

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