After you’ve transfered all your data on/off, why cant you simply take out the stick? where’s the harm?
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It is a final check that all apps have stopped using the drive. You might just be transferring some files, but a hidden OS app may be generating previews of images and files and saving an index to the drive, or you might have that report for your homework open on word which you edited directly off the drive and just forgot.
When you click eject, the xompiter checks if any apps are using files on the drive, and if so, it warms you that you shouldn’t eject it.
If you eject the drive anyway, ignoring the warning, then apps may crash because they don’t have the files they need, or files on the drive may not have the latest changes, or may be damaged if only half the file is updated.
Once you close down all the files and close the apps then the safe eject doesn’t do much. It just tells apps that the drive is no longer avaialable, so that they don’t try to use any more files. Once an app has finished saving a file and gets confirmation that the file is saved, it should be completely intact on the drive.
Apps won’t quit until they get the save complete message, so once you’ve closed down an app, then the data should be OK – although some apps do some tricks to make them look fast (they appear to save and close instantly, but actually just pretend they’ve finished and carry on working in the background).
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