On Tue, 14 May 2013, Roger Nelson wrote to Matt Munson:


 MM> it sucks how my external hard drive cant be shut down properly 
 MM> sometimes even when i want to eject the device. is there any way i 
 MM> can find out what programs are utilizing that device?

 RN> You should have an icon in the taskbar that says "Safely remove
 RN> hardware."  If you have more than one USB device connected, you'll
 RN> have to choose the correct one.

his post reads to me as if he is already doing that but something has files
open on it and won't release it for removal/ejection... the problem is to
determine which files are open and what program has them open... i hope the
URL i posted to him helped and i hope that he comes back and let's us know
how it worked out...

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