do you eject your usb thumb drive?

[vital]

do you eject your usb thumb drive before you pull it out?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Sometimes, when I remember

 

[ballmode]

hell naw

 

[czech09]

Nope.

 

[MDE]

No, just make sure that you're not transferring anything to\from it and you should be OK.

 

[Alone]

Never.

 

[DarkThinker]

In Soviet Russia Drive ejects joo!

 

[ChooChooChooseMe]

Yes.

 

[handoverfist]

Nope

 

[grrl]

I've screwed up zip files before, so even though it's a PITA I usually eject it, but it really depends on how patient I am.

EDIT: Is there any program that will allow a single click to eject a drive?. Like so often, MS makes you click too many buttons to do a very simple operation.

 

[Vidda]

Waste of time. Never had anything happen to one, nor ipods for that matter.

 

[ppdes]

I do, but I formatted mine NTFS (they are usually FAT), enabled compression by default, and went into the device manager and changed the "write caching and safe removal" option to "optimize for performance" instead of "optimize for quick removal".

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: ballmode
hell naw

QFTFMT!!!

 

[potato28]

nah.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: grrl
I've screwed up zip files before, so even though it's a PITA I usually eject it, but it really depends on how patient I am.

EDIT: Is there any program that will allow a single click to eject a drive?. Like so often, MS makes you click too many buttons to do a very simple operation.

2 clicks is all I know of. 1 click on the icon in the tray, oen click on the device to eject.

 

[BrownTown]

are you supposed to? WTF would that even mean, its not like there is an eject button on a USB port or anything?

 

[Injury]

Only when I'm on a mac because that's a sure fire way to give yourself headaches when it asks you for the disk every 5 seconds then locks up when you put it back in.

 

[FoBoT]

you don't need to with XP and server 2003 and vista

windows 2000 , it was a good idea

 

[DarkThinker]

Originally posted by: Vidda
Waste of time. Never had anything happen to one, nor ipods for that matter.

Do you guys even have a clue what you are talking about / giving bad advice about?

I pity you foos!

 

[tfinch2]

I don't pull out.

 

[EGGO]

I don't even see it on the icon tray. When I try to do it on My Computer, nothing changes anyway.

 

[I Saw OJ]

Never.

My buddy freaked out on me when I didnt eject the thumb drive.

 

[deepred98]

my dad's computer running xp (before sp2) would always display an error after a restart if the drive wasn't ejected so i got in the habit of doing so. its only 2 clicks anyways

 

[Britboy]

I used to but got tired of waiting and the stupid 'blah blah blah is in use' messages when everything had been closed. Now I just whip it out and take my chances.

 

[mpitts]

I will when I am transferring client data to a thumb drive or external hard drive. I can't tell you how many times I have just unplugged the drive when it has looked like it is done reading/writing, only to take it to a new machine and find that the data was not complete or is corrupt.

It happens. When I am billing people by the hour it makes sense to take the small amount of time it takes to "properly" eject it so I don't wind up having to do a transfer all over again.

At home I rarely do.