How do I correctly disconnect the card reader USB connection from the computer? In my Olympus instruction manual it says to drag the "no-name" icon to the trash, but that icon has disappeared. Total newbie here.

Thanks for your input, LN.

Hmmm ..... dismount button??

Problem is, I can't find "no-name" anywhere. It was there in the left side list when the images were importing, but then it disappeared & I don't know how to call it back so I can move it to the trash.

The memory card is still in the reader. I'm afraid to touch anything after the "scolding" I got from the computer yesterday. Heh.

The only things listed in the Source list (pane?) are: "Library", "Last Roll", "Last 12 Months" & "Trash". There is no "NoName" & I see no little grey upside down triangle, unless I click on the right-facing triangle in front of "Library", but I don't think that's what you're talking about.

"Connected Servers" was not clicked, but I added it since it makes sense to me. The only other thing different from what you show is that my preferences has the "Spring-loaded folders & windows" clicked. I have no idea what that means.

I still don't see the "NoName" icon appear anywhere.

A-ha, another computer dinosaur! Who says we're extinct? :-)

Ok, does this sound right? Does the card reader "eject" itself after importing images?

I put the computer to sleep for a while, then came back to see if, perhaps, the "noName" icon would return. Well, it did, & started importing the images again, so I hit that little grey triangle, & the "NoName" disappeared again. So I thought, hmmmmm (always my first choice). And, even though there was still one little red light lit on the reader (as there had been when the computer was in sleep because I had been hoping to be able to sneakily yank it then, but, no), I pulled the USB connection out anyway. No computer panic message yelling that, because of what I had done, I may be responsible for the end of the world. So is that card reader smarter than me? (I'm afraid I already know that answer.) Does it "eject" itself when the images are completely imported to the computer? Then why (oh why) did the computer send me that "end of the world" message the first time I pulled the card reader?

I'm still so confused.

Yes, ok, I'm glad that that's what happened with the grey triangle. However, please note, before I opened up the computer again from sleep-mode, that "NoName" was NOT in the Source list. That's why I started this discussion - I couldn't find "NoName" to be able to send it to the trash. I saw it when the pictures I had taken this morning were loading into the computer. Later, when I figured I should disconnect the card reader & memory card, I did not see "NoName" anywhere, & I came here to ask how I could find it to disconnect, or if there were another means to disconnect the USB connection safely. It was only after I put the computer into sleep mode & later opened it up that "NoName" appeared again as it started to re-import the images on the card, & I jumped on that grey triangle & it disappeared.

So, am I to assume that, if the reader sits inactive over a period of time, that it will eject itself, thereby disappearing from the Source list? In other words, if "NoName" is not included as part of the Source list, should I assume that it has somehow ejected & that I can safely remove the reader & card from the USB connection?

Ok, removing the card directily after importing images is a really sound & sensible idea. I'm so new to this that I got distracted with the photos, but I will remember to do this in the future. Thanks.

It sounds like you don't know the reason "NoName" disappeared after I left the reader & card languishing in the port after importing. I'll be sure to eject it quickly from now on so the same thing doesn't happen again.

Thanks for your time & advice.