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Re: [tlug] Files copied to USB thumb drive completely gone



On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Dave M G <dave@example.com> wrote:
Attila, Kalin, Curt,

I was careful, as I usually am, to unmount the drive and wait for it to
say it's okay to remove before taking it out of the USB slot.
 
I hate to add that I have also experienced "lost" files on a USB device that I believed to have cleanly dismounted before removing.  This hasn't happened frequently enough for me to spend time trouleshooting, and I've never lost anything permanently.
 
This was always with a flash memory device rather than a physical drive.
 
In all cases I've reused the same device succesfully, and thus assume the issue to be somewhere in the timing of the writes or dismount, rather than a failure of the USB device itself.
 
--craig

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