How to unmount drives automatically when closing a Mac’s lid

Macworld
Nov 11, 2016, 8:00 am683 pts
Andre LaRiviere asks: Is there a way to avoid having the drives “unmount” when I (forgetfully) close the top? It’s a small thing, but it’d be very happy to avoid force ejecting and remounting. It’s such a reasonable and common bit of behavior, it’s surprising Apple hasn’t built in some version of this.…

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