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Unmounting a drive on Mac OS X causes a stall in Quicksilver

Written by Colin Devroe on Monday, December 5th, 2005 at 5:11 am. Colin is the founder of ChanceCube and the Community Evangelist for Viddler.

To be more specific, if I do not unmount my shared drive prior to leaving home, Quicksilver will lock on me. I’m fairly certain that this “error” is limited to Quicksilver itself, since killing the Quicksilver process straightens everything out.

Normally, if I forget to unmount my shared drive prior to connecting to another network, my system will only take a second to realize this and it throws up a message telling me to disconnect it. However, if I invoke Quicksilver prior to unmounting, it will lock up for about 15 minutes. I don’t mean this sarcastically either, the process takes about 15 minutes to figure out the problem, unless I kill it using top.

Does this happen to anyone else? With any other applications?

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