From: Earle Martin Date: 14:45 on 02 Nov 2007 Subject: Ejecting disks (was: When I said 'Empty Trash'...) On 30/10/2007, Mike Beattie <mike@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > Thanks OS X. > > For absolutely no reason that I can discern at all, it will not > actually empty the trash when I select "Empty Trash" from the Finder > menu, or the right click menu of the trashcan itself, or the shift- > fuckingabnormaltwirlything-delete hotkey. OS X HATE BANDWAGON! Whenever you remove a USB flash drive, you have to "eject" it first (the word in itself is a stupid historical legacy, like buttons labelled "rewind"). This is done by dragging the disk icon to the trash. They reworked almost everything and yet managed to leave in this particular bit of historical stupidity that dates from the Mac Stone Age (see http://www.mackido.com/Interface/TrashingDisks.html). Alternatively you can click its icon and hit Cmd-E. Fair enough. If you don't eject the drive before pulling it, you get a dialog box waving its finger at you telling you to eject the drive next time. When I eject flash drives, their icons disappear. Then I remove them. Then it brings up the same fucking dialog box telling me to eject first. Every time. I _DID_ EJECT IT, YOU SOURED DRIBBLE RESIDUE FROM A WIZENED WITCH'S TIT!
From: Peter da Silva Date: 16:39 on 02 Nov 2007 Subject: Re: Ejecting disks (was: When I said 'Empty Trash'...) On 02-Nov-2007, at 09:45, Earle Martin wrote: > Whenever you remove a USB flash drive, you have to "eject" it first > (the word in itself is a stupid historical legacy, like buttons > labelled "rewind"). This is done by dragging the disk icon to the > trash. Really? I right click and select "eject". > If you don't eject the drive before pulling it, you get a dialog box > waving its finger at you telling you to eject the drive next time. As you should. > When I eject flash drives, their icons disappear. Then I remove them. > Then it brings up the same fucking dialog box telling me to eject > first. Every time. Wait a few seconds for the umount to finish, and toss a handful of hate at Finder for removing the icon when you say "eject" instead of when the volume disappears. That behavior of Finder is hateful. It also sucks when there's an open file and it can't do the umount. Finder removes the icon, then brings it back again.
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