Re: "Disk not ejected properly"

[pdq]

Any Mac owner will certainly recognize this quaint quirk of MacOS, but the time has come to discuss the consequences thereof.

For me, never. (But then I'm one of those bad-boy types, y'know?) :wink:

[Zoidberg]

When Steve first demo'd Macs with Firewire, one of the things he demonstrated was how you could unplug a Firewire drive during a large transfer and then plug it in a few moments later and it would pick up where it left off. Apparently that didn't work out.

While you shouldn't do it, and I always tell people they should never do it, I've not personally had an issue with it.

Now, go back a few dozen years to SCSI connectivity; that's another matter.

Or to a PC with a floppy disk and a manual eject button.

[MGS_forgot_password]

So you just straighten out a paper clip and poke it through that little hole to eject your floppy.

[Carm]

Yes. Corrupt file but not on Mac. I know most people just yank out flash drives without a care in the world.

[Article Accelerator]

pdq wrote:
Any Mac owner will certainly recognize this quaint quirk of MacOS

It's neither quaint nor a quirk. Avoiding disconnecting a storage device while it may be actively being read or written is a Good Thing™.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Had problems around 2008, but not on a Mac.

What is "MacOS?"

[PeterW]

Mangled a flash drive directory pretty good once but that was done by removing the drive in the middle of a copy operation. Actually had to reformat on a pc to get the drive recognized again.

[tenders]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
What is "MacOS?"

That must be the Canadian or Australian pronunciation of "macOS."

Fridays aren't /analmode=off days?

[ka jowct]

There's also the waking-from-sleep improper disk ejection bug that appeared sometime after Snow Leopard.

[DP]

ka jowct wrote:
There's also the waking-from-sleep improper disk ejection bug that appeared sometime after Snow Leopard.

Get this fairly regularly. Usually after a few minutes the "ejected" disk pops back up....