I don’t fucking know why I can’t eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don’t know who’s lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.
A great thought on the thumbnails, but the behavior exhibits even when using command-line tools.
Indexing is off for the entire drive, I can’t even begin to imagine what kind of mess that would make if it was on.