https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453894
Bug ID: 453894
Summary: Eject Symbol next to mount drives can lead to
catastrophic data failures!
Product: dolphin
Version: 22.04.0
Platform: Manjaro
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: major
Priority: NOR
Component: panels: folders
Assignee: dolphin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: c3i8zv...@mozmail.com
CC: kfm-de...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
Hi everyone,
I don't know who and why this has been green flagged, but the newest addition
of an eject button next to mounted drives (not USB drives, hard drives! Meaning
all network folders, all additional mounted volumes!) is an terrible idea! It
is really mindbuffling dangerous. A normal user - like my mom - could (has)
accidently click on them way, way to easily. For there is no dialogue of
confirmation (!), the drive gets onhooked immediately. An ongoing copy process
could lead to data corruption. Running services relying on the drive could lead
to data corruption. Imagine for example having a syncing software running. Like
synology drive? When the drive is unmounted without shutting it down
beforehand, the syncing software might (I know it does, it is badly written)
interpret the missing drive as deleted files, meaning, it deletes the files on
the synced target.
And so on and so on.
This should definetly not be there for hard drives and if, it needs a
confirmation for unmounts.
Cheers and have a nice day.
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