Can't eject an external hard drive after using Lr

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July 22, 2021
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Hi,

I have a frustrating problem - I can't savetly eject my external hard drive after using Lightroom Classic CC.

I can do it normally, after browsing files/ photos, but once I've imported some photos via Lightroom, or even launch Lightroom on my computer, it's impossible.

I've tried turning off an autorun for foldera, shutting down all background Adobe processes, uninstalling Creative Cloud, restarting explorator.exe etc.

Do you have any suggestions how to solve it ?

Windows

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DdeGannes

Community Expert

Lightroom sometimes has several secondary processes being completed after you may have finished a working session. It may be possible that Lightroom does not wish you to disconnect the External Hard drive. A couple that comes to mind is face detection and address look-up. You can pause them if you wish.

Regards, Denis: Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.4 PS 27.8;

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Kajetan5C2EAuthor

Participant

Thank you so much,

I'll try to pause mentioned process. Please let me know if any other similar process came to your mind.

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DS256

Inspiring

I have this happen with external drives. I believe it's Windows and may be related to indexing of the drive. There are some utilities out there that will show files that are open by which process. This may help in determing what is going on.

If you wait for a bit, you can usually eject it.

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Kajetan5C2EAuthor

Participant

Thanks for anwser,

I've already tried one - it's called "unlocked" - it showed nothing. So I given up this method, but if you know any other program that can do this, i would be thankful for giving me a name/link

And of course I'll try to wait and see if I can eject the drive after a while

Thanks again 🙂

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