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Deleting Files (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What gets me is when I'm not allowed to remove an external drive. Deleting a file can be delayed until later but here I am with a physical object that I need to detach from my computer and first I need to play hide and seek with the OS.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If this happens often, you can disable write caching for that drive. It'll feel slightly slower (since it's actually operating at the speed of the hardware instead of caching operations in RAM and gradually writing them to disk in the background), but you'll be able to remove the drive almost instantly.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    I used to find it had something to do with the explorer thumbnailer finishing up but sort of not letting go. It would happen if I had pictures or videos on the USB drive, and if I got the error I could go to another folder like my documents, drag a picture into another folder, go look at the pretty new thumbnail, then I could remove the USB drive because the thumbnailer was 'parked' back on the C drive. Sounds like I'm making it up but I swear it worked.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Shouldn't that happen automatically if the drive is identified as removable? And the real solution should be to tell the OS that it's removable?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I was having terrible performance problems in Windows a while back, and it turned out it had marked every drive as removable and the write cache was filling up due to an extremely slow external HDD, causing even the internal SSDs to grind to a halt until the buffer was flushed whenever a large amounts of writes were made to the HDD. Which, since the external drive was used for backups and large Steam games, was almost every other day.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    And that removable object’s filesystem is probably the most shit, unjournalled filesystem in the world so you’re actually fucked if it becomes corrupted by removing it early.

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