You have been subscribed to a public bug: External USB Storage devices should be flushed immediately to avoid data loss. Most users would be happy to see a progress bar rather than have a chance that their data may not have been saved.
After dragging files from the desktop into the folder of a USB external storage device, a move operation was executed and the files appeared to have been successfully moved. Unfortunately, the buffers had not been flushed and when the device was removed, data was lost. This issue was compacted by no obvious way of disconnecting the device from the taskbar as Windows are used to, (although I'm not suggesting that there needs to be). This may lead people to the assumption that USB storage is handled more gracefully in Ubuntu as is the case with many other things. Further information about this can be found in the following ubuntu forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=994249#post994249 ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Medium Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Confirmed -- Flushing data to external storage devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43503 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
