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Anyone no what harm is caused by just unplugging USB devices? I've never really done it properly. I watch someone use on today the proper way, and right click the icon in the System Tray, and waiting until it told them to remove it. I've never done that! |
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If you do it 800 times the device melts and the wire turns into a strange contraption which is programmed to strangle all humans. Yes, I invented this contraption. |
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you have to effectivly "eject" the device via the system tray icon because if you don't data loss can occur it happens a lot, especially with compact flash devices, and i'd assume that memory stick is the same |
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once a mate of mine did it with his digital camera.....it basically fucked up the FAT on it (compact flash uses FAT12 file system) |
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'Anyone no..' ? tsk tsk |
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Haha, it's nothing. I do it with my digicam all the time, and it is fine. I think it quite likes it actually. |
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Hmmm I had a 64Mb Creative Muvo, and it now doesn't work, and I'm wondering if this was responsible. I've just got the 256Mb version to replace it, and I don't want the same thing happening! :( |
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Houd je rotsmoel!! :P |
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yes i'd assume that was the problem honestly, it totally fucked this card of my mates up...can't even be re-formatted now i'd hate to do the same thing to an IBM MicroDrive eeek |
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Well I use a USB Card reader for my camera, and I just swap the cards....but I guess I'm never unplugging the card reader though, so maybe thats different |
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My 64MB memory stick, gets identified in Windows, then disapears, then reappears....and keeps doing this every 20 seconds or so |
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what i think it is, is that when you insert a flash memory (compact flash, memory stick, sd card, etc etc etc) the contents of it are loaded into RAM, then you move/copy/delete files on there, and when you're finished the contents of the RAM are then transferred back to the flash card. at least that's what i'm guessing that would explain why you HAVE to eject it in the software before removing from the drive physically |
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mmm weird is it still under warranty? if so, take it back and complain usually works :) |
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But what about memory cards that exceed the size of your RAM, I don't think that is correct! |
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I logged the problem last week, the warrenty runs out today as it happens. But they told me they will honor it. |
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then it'd use the swapfile i assume, just like regular stuff does well, if you can get moneyback/exchange then go for it, but ALWAYS eject via systemtray before actually ejecting! :) |
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Yep you can mess up by just pulling the key out, because normally it is impossible to see whether it is being written to at the time. The same can happen with your card reader, if you remove the card while it is being read from or written to you can lose data or even corrupt the card. Normally you can see on card readers though what is happening, so it is less likely to happen. There is no problem removing cards from a card reader while there is no activity though, you don't have to remove through the system tray. I would use the system tray for your Muvo from now on though. |
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