Question Can't Eject Drives in OSX 10.13.3

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This is more of a PSA than anything.

I updated my OS because of the latest security breach regarding Intel chips. Found out, after multiple Apple advisors on tech support, you can't eject a drive in this OS level after you've opened a file on that drive. Your only option will be to Force Eject.

Love to know if anyone has discovered differently.
 
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Simply trying to eject a drive from my MacBook Pro. Whenever I open a file from an external hard drive, close it, even quit the program, I have to Force Eject the drive. Or restart the computer.

It's really strange that I seem to be the only one with this issue. I went on Apple Forums and heard nothing. The Apple Care specialist said it was a "known issue" and just to wait until the OS update.

I even tried reinstalling the whole OS.

Any one heard of this happening?
 
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That is odd for it to do it all the time. I assume you have closed all Apps and tried running disk utility on the external. Does the external include TM? Are you running any online back to it? When that happens to me, I just shutdown. Apple's site says that too.
 
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Sorry been slow to respond.

Still dealing with the issue. Yes, you have to shut down. But you shouldn't have to every time. I don't even have to open an app for this to occur...I simply spacebar-open a file and the external drive is locked out. Tried several different drives, different ways of connecting, etc.. You can't run disk utility on a drive that's locked out from being ejected safely. But I've tried 3 different drives, so, I don't think they're all messed up.

I'm wondering if Apple is going back to the dark ages or something? Can't even eject a drive now? The thing that's really strange, that I keep saying, is that no one seems to be saying anything online about this, yet Apple is telling me that their "engineers are hard at work" to fix this "known issue".
 
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"Locked Out": you can't use disk utility on an external drive if it can't be ejected. So I can't check to see if there are drive errors on an external.

Tried my OS for disk utility checks, everything was okay. Reinstalled the OS, that didn't work either.
 
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Totally odd. If I was having that many issues with a drive, I would move all the data to another one and erase it and start over. I plug in different drives all the time since I repair computers (even Win). Would do as suggested. If it is your computer, an erase and clean install is the last resort (after backup). Had to do that when I kept getting a "cannot find HDD" error with my preinstalled SSD MBP.
 
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I did all of these things. The computer seems to be working now after an update. Makes me very wary of apple as a brand now.
 
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