Comments on: USB Disk Ejector for unplugging external media

By: EjectUSB – customizable unmount helper | Rarst.net

EjectUSB – customizable unmount helper | Rarst.net — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:01:18 +0000

[...] had previously covered some apps (USB Disk Ejector and USBDeview) that make it easier to unmount external drives. Most of such utilities focus on [...]

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USBDeview – USB viewer and manager utility | Rarst.net — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:11:34 +0000

[...] unplug and uninstall devices (I still prefer USB Disk Ejector); [...]

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:47:54 +0000

@Jeketem

Actually I still use it in similar way, my custom launcher I coded in AutoIt calls it to unplug external drives.

You dropped it because have no more need or moved on to some better solution? :)

By: Jeketem

Jeketem — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:44:20 +0000

I’ve used this before in a script I wrote using autohotkey
It was a tad clunky and thinking about probably had one too many steps but served its purpose while I was in school.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:53:47 +0000

>I’ve unplugged all my USB devices without ejecting them, and nothing has every happened to them. I simply make sure they aren’t being written or read from.

“I alway walk across the road on the red light and wasn’t ever hit by a car!” :)

Personally I am less worried about flash drive (under heavy use they die anyway) and more about my data.

By: Talk Binary

Talk Binary — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:33:14 +0000

I’ve unplugged all my USB devices without ejecting them, and nothing has every happened to them. I simply make sure they aren’t being written or read from.

Never caused me a problem. Did that after I saw a post on Lifehacker about it…

Heck, I bet I can eject my brain, and put it back in and nothing should happen. =P

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:16:48 +0000

@Ky

I meant left-clicking. Double-clicking makes mess even worse.

And best case is single flash drive… But worst case is few SATA HDD that may get in that menu as unpluggable, card-reader that may create multiply devices and letters… Add external HDD, mobile phone, one-two flash drives… And it is completely unusable. :)

I really don’t understand why Windows doesn’t get updates to such dumb interface decisions once in a while.

By: Ky

Ky — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:08:20 +0000

“But usability sucks – you must find and click tiny icon in tray, try to understand mess of entries in menu and choose right one.”

Not really IMO :) Left click the icon instead. A list of devices will pop up, just select the one you want to unplug and that’s it.