On Jun 28, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Stephen Jonke wrote:
Of course if you are disconnecting a flash drive or hard drive,
then it must have been unmounted(i.e. dragged to the trash, which
in OS X turns into an eject icon) before so that there is no data
loss or corruption, just the same as for when the system is awake.
Let me add my sad tale of data loss to that statement.
19 times out of 20, possibly 49 times out of 50, you can get away
with yanking a flash drive out before unmounting it.
The 20th time, in my case, turned every file on the disk into a 4K
stub, and a 256 MB stick into 32 Mb available after trashing
everything. I had to reformat the drive to get it to work again.
Lost a number of things I did not have backed up elsewhere, like some
letters I was working on and had to redo from scratch...
A professor here lost 512 MB of stuff the same way, including the
current version of a grant proposal and a number of powerpoint files
he was working on for classes. He had a lot of work to do to recover.
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