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99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button (media.piefed.social)
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I don't fucking know why I can't eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don't know who's lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

By default Windows disables file caching on external USB drives. It should be writing those files directly. That doesn't prevent a program from locking a file or folder that it is using though.