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KDE Fixes 15 Year Old Bug Over Inaccurate Notifications When Copying Files To USB Drives (www.phoronix.com)
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blog post: https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/27/fixing-kio-copy-to-usb-stick-and-network-filesystems/

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[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I always assumed "safely remove" is just a umount which in turn does the sync before returning.

[โ€“] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

Yes. I do too.
But historically, the way it has indicated "working" in cases it takes more than a second, has been not very reliable.
Specially on Ubuntu + GNOME back when I had to use it in the office.