do you utilise the mystic remove hardware safely button or play russian roulette with your system?

there's nothing more satisfying than safely removing your external harddrive to drop it seconds later. i thought it was safe!!

the only time i really bother is on my macbook because it'll sometimes act really weird if you don't.  i usually don't bother on my desktop unless it's with my external hdd because if something fucked up with that i'd lose a WHOLE lot of shit

It took me a minute to figure out what you were even talking about.

No, I don't even consider it! Tbh I didn't even really think what it was, I just kind of pushed it aside as a part of WINDOWS SPAM.

Yeah never on Windows and always on Mac - for reasons previously stated. If you know what you're doing you never have to "safely" remove a disk. Just don't pull your disk out while it's reading/writing (especially writing).

For some reason the Mac either horribly complains when you don't or it doesn't realize that you even did it and then it won't let you eject it and will sometimes either freeze up or fuck up your finder to where you have to restart anyway.  This is one of my only big issues with the Mac, it's pretty annoying.

For some reason the Mac either horribly complains when you don't or it doesn't realize that you even did it and then it won't let you eject it and will sometimes either freeze up or fuck up your finder to where you have to restart anyway.  This is one of my only big issues with the Mac, it's pretty annoying.

really?  i've never had this problem ever on my mac.  I move about my laptop a fair bit and i've never had a problem ejecting my external hard drive while doing so.   It's true though that finder can sometimes be a bitch about things like this though, (eg: it won't let you eject something for absolutely no reason.  I've just went ahead and pulled the hard drive in these situations and while it has complained about it, finder hasn't ever locked up on me or anything as a result of the little window popping up saying "WHY'D YOU DO THAT")

really?  i've never had this problem ever on my mac.  I move about my laptop a fair bit and i've never had a problem ejecting my external hard drive while doing so.   It's true though that finder can sometimes be a bitch about things like this though, (eg: it won't let you eject something for absolutely no reason.  I've just went ahead and pulled the hard drive in these situations and while it has complained about it, finder hasn't ever locked up on me or anything as a result of the little window popping up saying "WHY'D YOU DO THAT")

See, sometimes mine doesn't complain at all aside from the popup box.  But, I've had enough times where it has fucked up and forced a restart to where I don't want to bother with it.

okay yeah.  At the most sometimes I'll get the beachball spin for a few seconds, but then its back to the normal.  i've never had to restart as a result of removing any hardware.   what sort of hardware are you removing (eg is it in an older piece of hardware? my brother had trouble with his mac on a really old external hard drive enclosure where it would sometimes give him a kernel panic when he would unplug it, although that is most likely a different issue entirely)

It's usually either a flash drive or an SD card reader when I have these problems.

my flash drive sometimes won't eject but its never locked up.  never tried using an SD card reader.

depends on where I'm at. At home on my own computer, yes. If I'm using a thumbdrive at the library or some other public computer and am busy I don't bother.

ahahahaha goddamn