No option to eject USB-stick.

Have High Sierra on two separate disks. When I'm using one of them, insert a USB-stick and then want to properly eject the stick, I right click on it and get a popup menu with various options, e.g. "eject". I select that and the stick disappears from desktop and I can physically pull it out. I assume it's that the way the OS want to us to unplug USBs.


But in this other disk with a newly installed High Sierra, no "eject" option appears when right clicking.


Have searched for solutions but only found a couple. Like "reboot", "log out and in again", etc. None works.


Is it nowadays OK to just pull a USB-stick without telling the OS to eject first? Or is my OS missing something?


(Oh, it's the same when e.g. opening and then trying to eject a dmg)

Earlier Mac models

Posted on Jul 28, 2023 1:48 AM

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No option to eject USB-stick.

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