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Anyone else see this issue and hopefully have a work around:

When I mount a DMG disk image, or plug in a USB drive to my MacBookPro, I cannot eject it because I am told one or more  programs may be using it. This even happens if NO programs are shown as running. I have noted that if I quit WSA (shut it down) I can then eject these drives  But WSA scanning the drives  it seems leaves some process open that still has an active pin to the drives.  

I do not want to force eject an HD, or even a DMG as it can damage the image or drive. 

Suggestions anyone? 

(FYI: Webroot Customer Service suggested I shut down WSA, eject the drive, and then turn it back on. WORST SOLUTION EVER.) 

I will ping
@TylerM to see if he can get someone from the Mac development team?@Jeremiah Voris and
@macdonaldj 

 
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Thanks Daniel. Much appreciated. 

I see this on Windows when I try to eject my USB external drive and never worked out what caused it. But what works usually is cancelling the request, maybe 2 or 3 times and it works after that.

Thanks Jasper. I have tried that a dozen time and it still does not work. Only force quitting WSA or restarting lets me remove it. But  thanks for the tip.

What I suspect is that WSA leaves a reference to the drive open after the scan, and that makes the drive look busy. Common mistake when people access drives in a program.

Should be an easy fix if they looked for it. 

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