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Degilbo
88 days ago
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USB Safely Remove
This is a handy little application I have used for some months. It enables me to safely remove external hard drives, flash drives, etc. with a few clicks. The authors are offering a free download up until August 25 (US time). Read about it here: http://safelyremove.com/fullFeaturesList.htm and apply for the special offer from here: http://safelyremove.com/giveawayweeka9.htm
Quote from website: "There are no restrictions except you can use the program only with the current version 4.1. All other aspects of our license policy will be the same as for paid licenses: you can use it personally on each of your computers. If you wish to upgrade to any future versions (and even to downgrade to a previous one) you have to purchase the lifetime license".
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pockyrevol
ution
88 days ago
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Not bad. I'm a Mac user, but I know this problem occurs in Windows. I like the feature that helps track down which application is using it. The Mac side needs this too. Good one, thanks for sharing.
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tufteach
88 days ago
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I too am a Mac user. Isn't it just a simple matter of dragging the external item's icon to eject (the trash) and then unplugging? I'm curious, why do you think Mac needs one of those, pockyrevolution?
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pockyrevol
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88 days ago
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I read the product page a little more. It has a nifty feature that tells you which program is using the disk if you get the "disk is in use, cannot be ejected" message in the Mac OS.
This is extremely useful, as it tells you which program to quit, rather than quitting every program one by one on your Mac.
So that's why I'd love to have this on a Mac. Maybe it exists for Mac right now. Anyone know? 
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rodia
88 days ago
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I so very rarely get the 'disk is in use' message...and generally it's easy to figure out which program is holding it up. I have to say, without being a mac fanboy, it's so much simpler to manage external drives on an apple computer. They all show up as icons and have their little eject button.
Good find for windows though!
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tufteach
88 days ago
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OK--I have never gotten the "disk in use" message! I use external devices frequently and when I do, just drag to eject or click on eject in the menu. Love my user friendly Mac!
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ben-s
88 days ago
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On Windows, I've never had a problem with just pulling the drive.
If you use common sense and give it a minute after you've used it, you won't normally run into anything
On the Mac, the first time I pulled a drive without stopping it (With no programs open, I might add), the machine crashed, and I fairly frequently get the old disk in use error when I try to eject a drive, even when the drive is clearly not doing anything - all programs closed, light on the drive off.
For me it's a case of love my user friendly PC!
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superdewa
88 days ago
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Like Ben, I never had a problem just pulling it on my PC.
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Willtastic
88 days ago
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ben-s wrote:
On Windows, I've never had a problem with just pulling the drive. I have! On Windows, Mac, AND Linux. It's good to safely eject before removing if it's an important file that you know you'll need later, but for general day-to-day use I don't bother.
Once I pulled out without ejecting and an entire essay became corrupt.. and it was due in about an hour. I was so distraught until I remembered I had my laptop that I wrote it on with me 
EDIT: By the way, that time it ate my essay I had already closed OpenOffice and I was running Linux.
ben-s wrote:
On the Mac, the first time I pulled a drive without stopping it (With no programs open, I might add), the machine crashed Once my old tech teacher (who was a total Mac fanatic) said that properly removing drives is a lot more important on a Mac than a PC. I can't remember if he said why or not, I just shrugged and ignored him
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pockyrevol
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88 days ago
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Pulling the flash drive without first ejecting puts all data on the drive at risk of corruption! Any time I accidentally pull, and get the warning about possible corruption, I immediately go to disk utility and repair the drive.
The app mentioned here is more about adding additional features to the built in system's eject function on Macs and PC.
Will, I remember that point about it being more likely to cause damage on a Mac too. I think this is because the Mac uses a disk cache for the drive while plugged in, and if you pull it, it becomes thrown into an unknown state. Windows doesn't do this, so you can "pull" more often without risk, but what's one second of your time worth? =P
Case in point about this unplugging/data safety issue, Apple wrote a patent about a month ago about a sensor being placed on the USB drive (and cord possibly?), that would tell the computer to safely eject as soon as a thumb was placed on the cord.
Patent:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/appl … b-devices/
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ben-s
88 days ago
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As an aside, you should never store your only copy of something on a USB memory stick. They are too loseable, breakable, and fail too frequently for that.
I have had quite a number brought in at work attached to a very upset student, after they've broken the thing!
One student I dealt with had her only copy of her entire dissertation on a memory stick, which she sat on and snapped the connector off an hour before the paper was due in...
Fortunately, I managed to take the case off and make a bodged repair using a spare mouse cable soldered directly to the pins of the controller and regulator components on the board, and her dissertation was handed in.
She'll never put the only copy of an important document on a flash drive again...
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belleariel
paris
88 days ago
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Whew...raises "the dog ate my homework" to a whole other level!
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tufteach
88 days ago
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Hmmm... maybe i have never had a pproblem 'cause I always eject before unplugging. Am glad i am doing it correctly!
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Nile65
87 days ago
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Belle: At least now a days when your dog eats your homework, there's a god chance you'll get it back... 
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belleariel
paris
87 days ago
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Only if you have someone like Ben around with his soldering iron!
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Slugo
85 days ago
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much a do about nothing. Just pull the plug, seriously...
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Degilbo
84 days ago
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Just as a followup, 36467 licences were given away by the developers during the week the free offer was in place. Just shows the power of the Internet for spreading "news" doesn't it?
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pockyrevol
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78 days ago
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Update for Mac users:
Snow Leopard now includes this functionality- It tells you which application is using the disk in the event that an eject is not possible.
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Degilbo
78 days ago
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Thanks, pockyrevolution. I'll check that out when I get a chance to use our MacBook (my son "commandeers" it most of the time :-)).
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Willtastic
77 days ago
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Yours probably won't do that, Deg, unless you've already upgraded it. Apple charges $30 for the update to Snow Leopard
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