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This Week in Plasma: File Transfer Progress Graphs (blogs.kde.org)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

i bet MANY people are left with halfway stuff written on their usbs after being in a rush and removing it insecurely on linux after the transfer is “done”.

AFAIK it can actually destroy the USB if it's removed while being written.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

no way to know for sure if its still writing if the progress bar is inaccurate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You can use sync in terminal. But it's tricky because it sometimes returns even when the writing isn't finished.
My method is to use sync multiple time, if it returns immediately 2 times it should be clear,
Only then do i dismount the stick, because I don't like to dismount a device with pending operations. But when the dismount says the stick is ready to be removed, you should be clear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

exactly. thats unnecessarily complicated for someone on a rush because of something that should be a functional progress bar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

What annoys me is that this was an issue as far back as the early 90's. On DOS and Windows 3.11. It's such an annoyance that I don't get how this problem still exist?!
If the unmount function can see if write is finished, a file copy function should obviously be able to see it'¨s own copy state.