Post ATFYcm2s0dp3Rsqiye by HMHackMaster@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #ATFYa56egUcbhGKtBw by bigzaphod@mastodon.social
       2023-03-03T18:56:57Z
       
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       I plugged a USB drive into our Windows PC and when I was done with it I couldn't figure out how the hell to unmount it. I kept looking in the window that was showing the USB drive's files for an eject button or menu item or SOMETHING.I finally found a little widget in the taskbar near the clock that was hiding an eject button for the device.Not saying macOS is better (but eject is RIGHT THERE in the Finder window's sidebar), just that this maybe represents very different design philosophies.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATFYa6q4F8Xd4Oafc8 by bigzaphod@mastodon.social
       2023-03-03T18:57:46Z
       
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       There's also the possibility that I missed something terribly obvious that was right in front of me, of course. This is the part where dozens of Windows users show up and tell me how wrong and/or blind I was. 😛  (Windows 10, btw.)
       
 (DIR) Post #ATFYcm2s0dp3Rsqiye by HMHackMaster@mastodon.social
       2023-03-03T20:34:56Z
       
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       @bigzaphod The Windows expectation is that you don't need to do the 'safe eject'. Windows doesn't use write caching for "hot-removable storage", so when an app saves a file, Windows won't report back that the write operation is complete until the actual bits are written (vs your internal storage where some configs will allow Windows to give the app the write confirmation when the write has been cached and not yet written to disk).But there is also an Eject option on the right-click menu.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATFYehhl7OEmZ9tYjQ by realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world
       2023-03-03T20:42:41.421427Z
       
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       Is that #Windows11?In #Windows10 you won’t find an eject button on most drives.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATFh1wWB0aUQnn4Nge by HMHackMaster@mastodon.social
       2023-03-03T22:00:26Z
       
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       @realcaseyrollins @bigzaphod Yea mg screenshot is from Win11; I wasn't sure but I thought that Win10 had it as well.I also didn't have a Win10 VM available at the moment to check 😅
       
 (DIR) Post #ATFh4KaYU9vo2EFy3k by realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world
       2023-03-03T22:16:57.762000Z
       
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       IIRC it depends on the type of disk; most newer disks won’t have that option, but some older ones will.