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MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013 and later)īut there is an added complexity with this group of users as you would want an easy way to also auto-remount your always inserted Nifty MiniDrive since you would not want to always unplug and replug the MiniDrive back.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012 and later).

See the Apple support documentation here.Īnd if you’re wondering, the Mac notebooks that support standby mode are: This is especially popular amongst the 128GB and 256GB MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Retina users where a Micro SDXC card is used along with the popular Nifty MiniDrive.īut why do you want to auto-eject the Nifty MiniDrive when it’s always plugged in? Isn’t that totally opposite from the point of this article? Well, it seems that with the newer SSD only MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Retinas has a new standby mode and the SD Card prevents the Mac from going into this standby mode. Why can’t the OS X just auto eject the disk when it goes to sleep?Īnd then there are also the bunch of us that has used the generally idle SD Card slot to expand the MacBook’s storage.

That dreaded “The disk was not ejected properly” dialog box. Then you remembered that you didn’t eject the disks first! So what do you see when you open up the lid again? So there you go, shutting the lid and then unplug the external hard disks. And if you are like me, all you do is just shut the lid to allow the MacBook to go to sleep and never ever shut it down in between work.

#Sleepwatcher mac run when idle portable#

My point is, you’d likely have to deal with a portable external hard disk in your daily work. Especially so if you use an SSD (or two in my case) where the GB/$ ratio, while getting better, is still prohibitive if you want to have more than 500GB on your MacBook. There’s just never enough storage space on your MacBook.

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Do help me to spread out the word on this update to anyone you know who are using this guide, especially to those who are using it with the Nifty MiniDrive. So here’s a special thanks to Jan and frankspage for their invaluable inputs to improve this article and in effect, everyone of us that has used this trick. I’ll also be taking into consideration a new set of users that are using this guide to help with the use of the Nifty MiniDrive where the primary eject and re-mount is for the SD card.

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So I’ve decided to completely re-write my article to reflect all the new findings that was made and largely thanks to Jan who has provided a lot of insights into how to get this to work. It looks like unmounting the SD Card isn’t enough and you really do need to eject out the drive. Check it out in my update below.Ī couple of readers, Jan and frankspage (see comments below) has recently pointed to me that the script I provided below still does not allow the newer SSD MacBook Airs and MacBook Pro Retina to go into deep sleep mode. I’ve used it for a few weeks now and discovered that it’s well worth your consideration if you’re looking on how you can manage the automatic ejection of external disks on you Mac. I’ve recently discovered a new app called Mountain that helps you manage the mounting of volumes on your Mac.