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Idea #5838: Repair removed flash drive when user plugs it back

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #5725: Complete USB management program.
Written by Magnes the 27 Mar 08 at 14:05. Category: Hardware support. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
If you remove flash drive without unmounting it, a warning is displayed. The data on the pendrive could be a mess.
It would be nice if Ubuntu allowed to plug the usb flash drive back and finish the writing (of course it should check if this is the same drive).

Use case: Philip is in hurry. He writes his documents to a usb flash drive but forgets to unmount it before removing. Ubuntu shows him a warning and asks if he could plug the device back. Philip plugs usb drive back and Ubuntu saves the rest of his documents. Everyone is happy. ;)

Probably very hard to implement?

(sorry for my English)
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Written by Magnes the 27 Mar 08 at 14:05.
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fcsonline wrote on the 27 Mar 08 at 14:07
Duplicate

alci wrote on the 27 Mar 08 at 20:41
This is a nice idea. Usefull, user oriented, not a workaround to another technical problem. Only a plain nice and useful feature...

leu wrote on the 27 Mar 08 at 21:58
Very simple but very good. +1

dan.fernandez wrote on the 27 Mar 08 at 22:42
That's a good one, and it points on a very interesting direction: giving the user an impression of a more stable, better done operative system. Anyone can pimp a gui with enough graphic design, but making the user feel safe on its own computer? That's a different history...

anabelle wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 02:47
If this existed, I Wouldn't have messed up one movie and two games on my PSP earlier today :S

jerieljan wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 12:10
simple yet a good idea indeed.
> duplicate
mind reporting which one?

i wonder what would happen though if said user tries to transfer a ridiculously huge file though or with absurd cases (i.e. transfer a file from a DVD to a flash drive, unplug said drive and remove dvd from drive) but meh, it's still a good one if it can be implemented


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