Keep Drive Spinning

What it does

Keep Drive Spinning makes sure that a selected drive does not go to sleep unexpectedly. For use with certain external drives that don’t respect Mac OS X’s power management settings.

Makes sure that a selected drive does not go to sleep unexpectedly. For use with certain external drives that don’t respect Mac OS X’s power management settings. Version 3.0 is a major rewrite to support macOS 10.15 (Catalina). You can post questions and report problems on the support forumfrom jon.stovell.info

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  Hi HN, I built a small macOS utility to solve something that kept bothering me: external drives not being safely ejected when a Mac goes to sleep, leading to “Disk Not Ejected Properly” warnings and potential data issues. macOS doesn’t always give volumes enough time to unmount, especially with SSDs, SD cards, or disk images. Manually ejecting works, but it’s easy to forget. Ejectify automates this by unmounting selected volumes right before sleep (or display off) and mounting them again on wake. In Ejectify 2, I focused on making (un)mounting more reliable, with an optional helper for…

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