Toaster drive won't release after clone

[tuni]

I use a "toaster" drives in 2 different Voyagers, both DH's and my SD clones are on the same one. Lately after cloning with SD the "toaster" drive won't release from the Voyagers (either one). It seems that SD is continuing to "work" even after I am notified the clone is finished. I set the backup for ejecting the external drive after SD is completed.

If I remove the toaster drive manually, I get a notification that the disk was not ejected properly.

This has happened the last few months. Any idea what may be going on?

thx

[dnanian]

El Capitan is much more aggressive about indexing and the like. Try adding the drive to the Spotlight Preference Pane's "Privacy" tab.

[tuni]

I don't understand, Dave. In the Privacy Pane in Spotlight, adding a drive to it, seems to eliminate Spotlight from searching for that external drive (as I read it) - don't I want spotlight to FIND the external drive (the Voyager drive which contains my SD clones).
Am confused....

[dnanian]

Well, what's keeping your drive busy is Spotlight. That's why it won't eject. Adding it to the Privacy tab will help prevent that. If that's not what you want, then you'll have to wait until everything stops working on the drive before you eject it, or shut your system down and then eject. Don't force eject.

[tuni]

I did as you suggested by adding the SD clone to the Privacy in Spotlight. Then made the SD clone. However, when the toaster drive did eject, the SD clone was no longer on Spotlight privacy.

Obviously I would have to add it each time I make a clone. That is a PITA.....is there any way to make this setting permanent so I don't have to go through this every time I make a backup clone? This will certainly impact my consistent use of SD.....

Is there any other way to accomplish this so that ejecting of the clone will happen seamlessly as it used to????

Help!

[dnanian]

I don't know what you mean. The privacy setting is actually stored on the drive. So, if it's ejected, it won't appear...but will if you reattach.