Posts: 15,842
Threads: 95
Joined: May 2025
I have helped too many persons who have lost data to improper removal of drives to just pull one without dismounting/ejecting a drive properly myself. I guess that comes from seeing what "that never happens to me when I do that" translates to when done over several hundred computers by many students, faculty and staff.
Posts: 5,988
Threads: 755
Joined: Jan 2019
Reputation:
0
I have XP configured so that ejecting a USB flash drive is unnecessary.
Leopard doesn't give that option.
Does that make XP a better OS?
Posts: 15,842
Threads: 95
Joined: May 2025
Doc wrote:
[quote=DaviDC.]
I have XP configured so that ejecting a USB flash drive is unnecessary.
Leopard doesn't give that option.
Does that make XP a better OS?
No. Your PC simply has no USB ports.
Or it does and delayed write to removable drives has been turned off in his XP install. Just makes it less likely to cause problems if you just pull a USB flash drive, does not completely eliminate the problem. XP does not always obey that setting.
Posts: 4,027
Threads: 173
Joined: May 2025
Reputation:
0
Well, I've always ejected properly, but somehow I've gotten in the habit of just unplugging my iPod Touch as long as isn't syncing. Maybe because the message window in iTunes reads"iPod sync is complete. OK to disconnect." Should I still be ejecting?
Posts: 15,842
Threads: 95
Joined: May 2025
Doc wrote:
Possibly, but the idiot who tries a delayed write and then yanks his thumb drive offline is likely to find that a few of his files haven't made it onto the drive from the cache yet.
More likely, he thinks the "quick removal" setting protects his data. Sadly, while that might reduce incidents of corrupt files on the drive, it doesn't do much for files that are open/in-use and removing without ejecting can still cause directory damage.
Like I said, reduces, does not eliminate the problem. Since the OS sometimes ignores the setting anyways, still leaves open the possibility a delayed write operation will be used instead of immediate.