01-13-2011, 05:38 AM | #1 |
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is it necessary to properly eject
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is it really necessary to properly eject the K via my computer before unplugging the USB cable , or is it safe to just pull the plug once all transfers are complete ? |
01-13-2011, 05:39 AM | #2 |
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Never eject ANY writeable medium without using the "Safely Remove Hardware". Sooner or later you'll corrupt the file system if you do so.
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windows 7 default settings will do immediate write ( never delayed writes) to removable drives AFAIK |
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01-13-2011, 06:09 AM | #4 |
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Certainly you'll get away with it many times, but sooner or later it WILL bite you in the ass. Why not just do it right?
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01-13-2011, 06:15 AM | #5 |
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I'm with HarryT on this one.
Theoreticaly, if nothing is beeing written or read on/from the SD card/removable media, yes, you can unplug it with no harm. But you never know for sure if something happens |
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01-13-2011, 06:18 AM | #6 |
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as long as you arn't writing to the device you can pull it out and it won't mess it up. Probably not the best idea. If you are reading from the device it may crash your pc. If you are writing to the device it may corrupt part of the filesystem, which could probably be fixed by doing a "factory defaults" but w/e. Why not just eject the thing?
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01-13-2011, 06:25 AM | #7 |
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[QUOTE=Why not just eject the thing?[/QUOTE]
laziness - it's a lot of extra mouse actions & have an RSI problem that's aggravated by mousing. so the less I need to use the mouse, the better. now if there was a keyboard shortcut equivalent.... i can press a "my computer" button on keyboard for step 1.... |
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01-13-2011, 07:22 AM | #9 |
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It's two clicks - one to left click on the icon in the system tray, second to click on "Safely remove USB Mass Storage Device - Drive(x" in the popup menu. I appreciate what you're saying about RSI, but it's only two mouse actions.
However, if you're transferring files using My Computer or Windows Explorer, you already have that open, and should be able to use the keyboard to highlight the Kindle drive, then press SHIFT+F10 to pop up the "right click" context menu, then arrow key down to "Eject" or "Safely Remove" and press enter. |
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the only operation that removes it fully - so that you can switch it on & read while it continues to charge - is to go the My computer select drive right click select eject route. but having how realised that I can launch MY computer with a keyboard button from my multimedia keyboard, & can then navigate to K3 drive with arrow keys within that window it's not so bad |
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Windows key + "E" will launch Windows Explorer, from where you can eject the drive.
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Sorry, I don't know. But at least it saves you one mouse click.
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