ELi5: Why does pulling a USB drive out before you select “eject” matter?
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Operating systems lie to you, they report a file was copied to external storage when in reality they silently transfer it in the background. When you “eject” the drive you a forcing it too copy any unfinished files thus getting the “device is busy” message. Remove it without ejecting properly and you risk having an empty/corrupt file. In most cases enough time has passed that all transfer tasks are complete so no data corruption occurs if removed improperly.
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