GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 722167
Missing notification when to unplug external drive
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:37:32 UTC
When I tried to unmount a drive that was not synced yet, I saw a gnome-shell popup saying "writing to drive, don't unplug yet". That's cool. But because I knew the sync process would take a while (it was a lot of data to write), I clicked on that popup to dismiss it (in order to be able to work with my system in the meantime, otherwise I can't see any other popups and I also can't access the message tray). However, I never received the second popup saying "it's now OK to unplug the drive". That popup used to be present in previous GNOME versions, but now it doesn't seem to be there. I was waiting and waiting and waiting... and nothing happened. I needed to run "sync" in the terminal to ensure my data is safe and I can unplug the drive. Please fix the missing "it's safe to unplug drive" popup. Thanks. gnome-shell-3.11.3-1.fc21 udisks2-2.1.1-1.fc21
Just to be clear - the described scenario happens when I try to unmount the drive using the gnome-shell's message tray area (the thumb drive icon there). For Nautilus similar bugs are reported here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722173 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722178
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