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From: c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr)
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Subject: Re: 6.0.7 Idiosyncrasy ?
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Date: 16 Nov 90 04:05:10 GMT
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In article <draphsor.658724837@elaine0.stanford.edu> draphsor@elaine0.stanford.edu writes:

>The way to avoid this is to drag the disk to the trash.  This not only
>ejects the disk, it dismounts it.  The OS is forced to do all its
>changes to the disk before it ejects it.  The icon then disappears
>(unless the disk is the startup volume, which can't be dismounted.)

Or even better yet, select the disk by clicking on it, and hit
<Command> <Option> <double E> (hit E twice).  This will both eject
the disk and also dismount it.

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