unplugging headphone disconnect usb drives and sd slot causing data lost

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unplugging headphone disconnect usb drives and sd slot causing data lost

Hi i'm Michele from Italy
On my macbook pro, when i unplug headphone and there is a usb drive connected i have problems an system give me message of unsure eject and sometimes the drive became unreadble forcing me to reformat.
Same problem with sd slot but my sd card became corrupted and i can not use it anymore.
Very bad first experience for me just caming from windows/pc notebook.

Michele
migabri@gmail.com

macbook pro 13, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Sep 20, 2009 4:19 AM

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S.U.

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Sep 20, 2009 8:03 PM in response to migabri

Welcome to Apple Discussions!

It sounds like you have been unplugging these before ejecting them. To eject something, click on Finder at the lower left of your display. In the Finder window, you will see your USB device with a symbol to the right that looks like a triangle with a line under it. Click on this symbol to eject the device, and once the icon has disappeared from the desktop and the drive has spun down, you can safely turn off the device and unplug it.

Hope this helps!

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Sep 20, 2009 10:44 PM in response to S.U.

Hi
may be i wrote not clear. The unplugging of headphone is from the 3,5 mm jack audio, if i do this when a usb drive is connected this cause the unsafe disconnection and loose of data. it seems not to be normal form me that when i unplug from audio jack headphone or earphone i have to remove drives from usb first.

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migabri Author

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Sep 22, 2009 1:00 AM in response to migabri

Called the phone assistance. It seems that after a resetting of SMC and PRAM and NVRAM the problem disappear.

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