Safely Remove Drive needed twice

Mark mhullrich at gmail.com
Fri Oct 29 04:02:04 UTC 2010


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> If formatted in msdos/FAT then you need to go to Places (to panel) click
> on the thumb drive which will bring up the File Manager; see on
> left-side the entry for the thumb drive and click on the pyramid-looking
> icon at the end. This will safely remove it. If you try and do it by
> using the icon on the workspace you will get an error message - which is
> probably why it keeps "coming back" :-) .
>
Actually, it brings up Nautilus, which does not have a pyramid looking
icon anywhere.

I don't mind removing it twice, it's just annoying.

Is your solution for KDE?  The only file manager link under GNOME (in
Menu->Other) is also Nautilus....

Thanks, though.

Mark




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