On 02-Nov-2007, at 09:45, Earle Martin wrote:
Whenever you remove a USB flash drive, you have to "eject" it first (the word in itself is a stupid historical legacy, like buttons labelled "rewind"). This is done by dragging the disk icon to the trash.
Really? I right click and select "eject".
If you don't eject the drive before pulling it, you get a dialog box waving its finger at you telling you to eject the drive next time.
As you should.
When I eject flash drives, their icons disappear. Then I remove them. Then it brings up the same fucking dialog box telling me to eject first. Every time.
Wait a few seconds for the umount to finish, and toss a handful of hate at Finder for removing the icon when you say "eject" instead of when the volume disappears.
That behavior of Finder is hateful. It also sucks when there's an open file and it can't do the umount. Finder removes the icon, then brings it back again.
