Do you have this problem with Ubuntu Edgy and USB sticks ?
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I find Ubuntu to be much faster at copying files to various USB sticks than Windoze. I often let students copy files from My Linux laptop (hundreds of stick brands) and Linux handles it very well. With so many sticks-XP had some stupid and slow USB (proprietary) driver loading issues (not to mention possible virus infection).
Confirmed on Ubuntu Edgy and Gentoo with KDE-3.5.5
I can confirm this behavior on both (K)Ubuntu Edgy and Gentoo
running KDE-3.5.5. No pop-up, no sign of "work in progress".
After "Safely remove" the icon just turns into unmounted shape
(or even worse, disappears from the desktop). But the usb stick is still flashing red!
It happened that my FAT32 was corrupted due to this feature
(my usb stick shrank and showed less size than it used to have).
Re-format helped. Be aware, look at your stick before you un-plug it.
I submitted a bug report at bugs.kde.org, see bug #143353
I can confirm this behavior on both (K)Ubuntu Edgy and Gentoo
running KDE-3.5.5. No pop-up, no sign of "work in progress".
After "Safely remove" the icon just turns into unmounted shape
(or even worse, disappears from the desktop). But the usb stick is still flashing red!
It happened that my FAT32 was corrupted due to this feature
(my usb stick shrank and showed less size than it used to have).
Re-format helped. Be aware, look at your stick before you un-plug it.
I submitted a bug report at bugs.kde.org, see bug #143353
Thanks for the input, dmitry_k. Will check for that bug's solution as well as here.
I have merged my original bug report to that thread. The bug is KDE related.
Thanks, I had figured that out thanks to dmitry_k's comment on the kde.bugs.org bug he originally reported that redirected there. Hope there's an official solution soon.
Guys, Stephan Kulow of KDE core team has just provided a fix to this issue
in the CVS, see it here http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143353. Congratulations, and let's hope it will come into the next KDE release.
Dmitry
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