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crafter5728yNope it's not really needed on modern systems as long as you don't save something to the USB device while unplugging it you're safe.
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I always do it because i lost one whole unity project
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SHA-25614468yI always safely remove....just to be sure....I once suddenly lost 2TB of data(no idea how I lost it but it could be restored but all exes and many pics were fucked up)....I don't want that to happen again
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Used to unplug it unsafely until I corrupted an entire backup disk with years of backup material.
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SHA-25614468y@darkofsuperman Hehe I was actually rather calm when I saw every single file was gone....I expected myself to freak out lol
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matanl26448y@crafter this is untrue. USB device has garbage collection protocols running and in some low probability you could corrupt the whole device by doing that.
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lumy3558yDoesn't depent on the filesystem of the USB? Like if you FS wrote trace and journals of what happened?
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elazar10308y@matanl the data connectors are shorter than the power connectors ao that when you remove it, it senses the action while it still has some power to perform important actions
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