Can't eject an external hard drive after using Lr

[Kajetan5C2E]

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 ? 

[DS256]

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.

[Kajetan5C2E]

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 🙂 

[DdeGannes]

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.

[Kajetan5C2E]

Thank you so much, 

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

[Horton Photo]

Did you ever figure this out, I am having this happen, and tried lots of things, but it won't stop?!

[DdeGannes]

@Horton Photo , focus on the message there is nothing there to indicate LrC is responsible.
What were you doing that involved the disk, were you importing images from the disk to LrC or exporting images from LrC to the disk?
Is LrC open and are there any Images, Catalogs, or other functions related to LrC that may be utilizing the disk e.g. LrC Catalog being Backup to the disk?

[DdeGannes]

@Horton Photo , I see you have started a new thread, this is better, we can follow from there.

[Horton Photo]

Ok, I will continue using the other thread.