Removing A Usb

[flicrat]

I have put in a USB to save my programmes but my granddaughter said I couldn't just remove it when it finished, but I had to click on the icon in lower right hand corner and wait till it was safe to eject. Is this right and if so Help please as I don't have an icon for usb!

[Sharingan]

It will say ' Safely remove hardware or media' that's the one to click.

[society]

excuse me please Flicrat

Good to see you back, Sharin :)

[flicrat]

Thank you sharingan but where can I find the icon to do this?

[flicrat]

Bespoken, are you saying I can just remove it? It won't wipe it all off?

[ladybirder]

My Mac tells me off if I pull the USB out without 'ejecting'

[flicrat]

Thanks all.

[jno]

I do the same as Bespoken but really I should do what Sharingan says

[Sharingan]

I too actually just pull it out, but since you asked I told you the 'proper' way.

Hi society:) * waves*

[flicrat]

You are all brilliant and it is wonderful to have so many responses at this hour! I am truly grateful and have now been told on screen it is safe to remove it, so let's hope it is!! thanks for the help as I did find the right icon -eventually!

[flicrat]

:-) :-) A double success then Bespoken! :-)

[VHG]

I think stopping a device is more important for an external hard drive, that has a spinning disk.

Pulling out the cable while the disk is spinning could cause loss of data or even loss of the whole drive.

I am not sure it so important for a USB stick, though if it was in the middle of having a file written to it, or read from it, when it was pulled out it may cause problems.

Better to be safe than sorry, you could lose all your data if you don't stop it first.