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Old July 9th, 2007, 04:42 PM
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yah..... I guess, but i'm in a hurry a lot, and having to do al of that can be annoying.
A few seconds of waiting can prevent a few tears from data loss of important files. I unmounted my USB stick today and it only takes about 1 second on a Windows computer.
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I've corrupted my USB satnav (TomTom) when it turned itself off while connected. I got the "Device Improperly Removed" message on the screen.

It's happened before with no bad result...until that one time. Now I "Eject" as soon as the data transfer is complete.
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Old July 11th, 2007, 09:40 PM
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Luckily most of the data transfering I do is over the network, so i dont have to cry about the precious seconds of time lost while ejecting the flash drive.
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OK, count me in...

After 30 years working for IBM and lugging around a PC, I am now the proud owner of a Powerbook G4... lite and easy to use...

I think I'll soon be a full convert.

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Old August 4th, 2007, 05:30 PM
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Another thing I like about windows is that you can just pull a USB thumbdrive out, but with mac you have to eject it.
I totally recommend that you eject the thumb drive in XP. I have lost data by not doing so - as well as having not lost data doing it on the MacBook, in spite of the dialog of dire disaster.

Ejecting makes sure files are all closed.
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