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Safe Drive Ejector for Mac

Menu bar utility that safely ejects external disks before sleep and remounts them after wake.

By siraj-bd. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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Safe Drive Ejector at a glance

Version
1.2.0
Released
1 October 2026
Download size
20 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Menu Bar and Notch
Developer
siraj-bd
GitHub stars
1

About Safe Drive Ejector

Native macOS Menu Bar app to safely eject, deep sleep & remount external drives. Automatically closes locking apps and processes to eliminate "Disk Not Ejected Properly" warnings.

Screenshots

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How to install Safe Drive Ejector on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Safe Drive Ejector and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.2.0 from siraj-bd's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Safe Drive Ejector show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: SafeDriveEjector-1.2.0-macOS-Universal.dmg (20 MB).

What is new in Safe Drive Ejector 1.2.0

## 🚀 Safe Drive Ejector v1.2.0 for macOS (Universal 2)

We are proud to release **v1.2.0** of **Safe Drive Ejector** — a dedicated, high-performance external drive manager engineered specifically for macOS.

### ✨ What's New & Improvements in v1.2.0

- 🛡️ **Touch-Wake Cooldown Protection:** Eliminated accidental re-mounting when unmounting drives manually. A 10-second user cooldown prevents subtle cursor or trackpad motion from re-triggering sleep monitors.
- ⚡ **Multi-Partition & APFS Container Reliability:** Seamless first-click mounting on hybrid multi-partition drives (such as ExFAT + APFS Containers alongside EFI) with partition-level mounting fallbacks and force unmount recovery.
- 🎯 **Optimized Status & Zero Idle Overhead:** 
 - CSS loader animations pause completely (`animation-play-state: paused`) when idle, ensuring 0% GPU/CPU background consumption.
 - A clean, static green checkmark confirms completed operations ("Safe to Unplug").
 - Status text cleanly resets upon opening/closing the card.
- 🔄 **In-App GitHub Update Checker:** Users can now click the **Update** button in the Menu Bar Card to automatically verify against GitHub Releases with direct download links.
- 🌟 **AlternativeTo & Community Integration:** Direct directory linking and verified badge integration.

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