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How to "Safely Remove Hardware"

This may be a stupid question, but I am new to Macs. When using Windows, before removing a flash drive, you right-click an icon in the bottom right corner to "Safely Remove Hardware." What should I do on my Mac to make sure I won't lose any information when removing my flash drive?

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Posted on Jun 10, 2007 7:51 PM

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Posted on Jun 10, 2007 7:57 PM

all drives should be visible in the finder. to disconnect a flash drive, open the finder and click the eject button that appears just to the right of the flash drive icon in the upper left portion of the finder window.
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Jun 11, 2007 3:08 AM in response to v-rob

I recommend not dragging it to the trash. With my flash drive (Verbatim 1GB) this does not work. What happens is I try to drag it to the trash and all it does is remove it from finder. If you look closely when you drag it off the finder it goes up in a little poof of smoke. It never appears in the trash. If you opened another finder window you would see it is still mounted.

You can also highlight the flash drive and click file in the finder toolbar. The "Move to trash" command is grayed out. Under that you will see an eject command here also.

The best way is to use the eject icon in finder to do this. Otherwise when you try to remove your flash drive you will get an error message,

Mort

How to "Safely Remove Hardware"

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