I've had a few instances where it wipes out the master boot record on it. A simple recovery does fix it.
In the linux world, even more so. But generally you're fine.
i updated the siht out of my ipod (i hate apple btw the ipod is a POS) music collection and just unplugged it... it didn't keep any of my changes at all
So if you're not an idiot and just wait for the light to stop blinking, and even wait an extra second to be safe, then you will never have any problems.
So if you're not an idiot and just wait for the light to stop blinking, and even wait an extra second to be safe, then you will never have any problems.
i would say that depends entirely on the specific kind of driver the device uses
for all you know it could be writing everything to a cache on your comp and only upload the actual content every x minutes or so unless you force it by safe removal
i've caused irreparable damage to a USB flash drive by removing it improperly, it wasn't flashing or anything but i guess i still had shit running in the background that was going to access it
i lost a whole bunch of data, and in the end the capacity went from 4gb to ~3gb because of bad sectors (got it exchanged for a new one)
i've also seen this happen to an IDE drive in a USB enclosure
For me, it depends on the circumstance. If all I'm doing is transferring images from an SD card, I just pull it out when it's obvious the transfer/deletion is complete. Same goes for transferring files ( to and from ).
If I'm dealing with iPod ( haven't done this in a long time ), I always make sure to 'safely' eject.
I noticed that with some SD cards, and with sansas they will get corrupted if you unplug without doing the safely remove thing, even if you wait for a long time first.
so I always do it now, I never used to till I started getting corrupted shit. It's like 2 clicks, so whatever.
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