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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If you just use the stick as a storage drawer for random files and nothing else, there’s basically no harm in just ripping it out.
The feature is there in situations where you actually have a running program actively using a file that lives on the USB stick. Like, if you had installed a program on the USB stick and it was running, and you ripped out the stick, the program would probably stop operating correctly and you might corrupt a whole ton of files. That wouldn’t be good.
What the “safe eject” feature does is it checks to see if any programs are currently using the stick. If there are, it will attempt to tell them to stop. If they refuse, it tells you about them. Once all programs are shut down, the stick is set to “Closed” so no programs can use it anymore, and you get the message that it’s safe to remove.
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