Remove the erase disk option on the finder macOS Sequoia

Simos805 wrote:

Updated to macOS Sequoia today and saw that when right clicking on a connected hard drive on the desktop, it shows the option to erase it under the eject option. I find it very very dangerous because it makes it very easy to click it by accident or even clicked by someone else (a child for example) and erase a drive with important content inside.

Is it possible to remove that option from this right click menu somehow? I also find it useless because most people don't erase their drives so often to need that option so easily accessible...

Then don't "right" click on the connected drive.

If you want to unmount, drag it to the trash can or use the Terminal.app

MacBook-Pro ~ % diskutil umount /Volumes/Untitled

Volume Untitled on disk3s1 unmounted

or even clicked by someone else (a child for example) and erase a drive with important content inside.

Those users should not have the ability to erase a drive. That sounds like a management problem that is easily resolved.

Placing Erase Disk next to Eject Disk is a really bad idea. I wonder how this got thru beta without any feedback. I like the idea of having the Erase disk option in the menu. It just needs to be placed far away from the most commonly used menu item Eject Disk. I hope Apple is listening.

I have never used the contextual menu to eject my drives. I hardly ever eject a drive. So, I never tested it. However, the Erase command right next to it doesn't bother me. It has a confirmation dialog.

If that bothers you, try this one: Drag your disk to the Trash.

seaandnature wrote:

This is so far from Apple's own Human Interface Guidelines.

Nobody pays attention to that, least of all Apple.

I cannot in the least understand how some here can defend something so obviously silly with arguments like 'then don't use it' or 'I don't use it, so neither should you'.

Defend? I spend all year wasting keystrokes lecturing people about how they don’t need to install every update the nanosecond it’s released. Then the “big update” shows up and people absolutely freak out when Apple changes something, or adds something, in the new operating system. You don’t like change? Don’t apply the update every year! Geez!

Does seem pretty odd. At least there's a confirmation dialogue (I assume, from Etresoft's comment, not one I'd be keen on testing!)

Rename showing and truncating the actual disk name is daft too - maybe that's been there a while but it just clutters the contextual menu without need.

Having had to boot into Big Sur earlier I was quite surprised by how much nicer the icons were, much the same as when the skeuomorphic ones got replaced by 'flat' ones.

The ecosystem is fantastic but the GUI seems to go backwards quite often for change's sake and nothing else.

This is a serious design flaw. I do not recall there was a warning that the disk was about to be erased. Zap, it was gone. There should be a double warning alert if the erase is directly below eject. Can an Apple engineer advise the thinking behind this?

I almost made the fatal mistake several times, the last time I actually pressed the erase button.

What makes it so bad is that they are two words starting with the letter 'E' and with two syllables. Then when you put one on top of the other, it's a design catastrophe, there's no other way to put it.

Feel free to share your opinion with Apple.

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Placing Erase Disk next to Eject Disk is a really bad idea. I wonder how this got thru beta without any feedback. I like the idea of having the Erase disk option in the menu. It just needs to be placed far away from the most commonly used menu item Eject Disk. I hope Apple is listening.

I totally agree with the original poster, it is sheer madness to put a seldom used and dangerous contextual menu item next to a much used one. This is so far from Apple's own Human Interface Guidelines. I cannot in the least understand how some here can defend something so obviously silly with arguments like 'then don't use it' or 'I don't use it, so neither should you'.

over the last 15 years or so of daily mac use, I maybe have erased a removable disk once. Kind of mind boggling who thought that we deeded a shortcut to do that. Give us the option to remove it, or at least put it in services.

YES! I have almost erased my disk TWICE today, this is really bad, please change it!

Get a habit to use Command-E (or File > Eject).

Thanks, but the menu is in the wrong place, delete and eject should not be next to each other.

For me being a long time Windows user clicking the Right mouse button for the context menu is second nature. I will definitely be retraining my brain to use the drag to trash, Mac method.