Dismount removable drive after operation
Posted: 2010-09-26, 15:50 UTC
Preamble
If you guys have not checked out the program 'USB Safely Remove' you really should. It makes a MASSIVE improvement to Windows's seriously lacking "Safely remove hardware" tray icon. (saving you a lot of time when working with removable drives/devices)
The most important features of USB Safely remove is (after ticking all the boxes in general options) It shows shows the Drive letter and the Volume label. Rather than windows's dumb Drive letter and Device ID. (Device IDs are not for humans)
Since you plug in removable devices randomly, removable device letters are often random, meaning you have to open "My Computer" to see what volume label has the drive letter you want to dismount. 'USB Safely remove' eliminates all that nonsense.
Feature Request:
When TC shows the progress bar window that says "Copy/Move/Delete/Unpack"
It should add 1 or 2 tickboxes to the bottom of that window.
For example you're copying from C: to F: (and F is a flash drive)
It should show a tick box "Dismount 'F: Bobs Flash Drive' when done"
Or if you're moving files from F: to K: and they're both removable devices, it should show a tick box for both.
Then if the box has been ticked, when the operation is complete the whole Progress bar window will change to a message with an X on the drive Icon saying "Safe to remove 'F: Bobs Flash drive' "
Millions of people use flash drives to quickly copy files from one PC to another. A feature like this will safe a lot of time and hassle for these types of operations.
If you guys have not checked out the program 'USB Safely Remove' you really should. It makes a MASSIVE improvement to Windows's seriously lacking "Safely remove hardware" tray icon. (saving you a lot of time when working with removable drives/devices)
The most important features of USB Safely remove is (after ticking all the boxes in general options) It shows shows the Drive letter and the Volume label. Rather than windows's dumb Drive letter and Device ID. (Device IDs are not for humans)
Since you plug in removable devices randomly, removable device letters are often random, meaning you have to open "My Computer" to see what volume label has the drive letter you want to dismount. 'USB Safely remove' eliminates all that nonsense.
Feature Request:
When TC shows the progress bar window that says "Copy/Move/Delete/Unpack"
It should add 1 or 2 tickboxes to the bottom of that window.
For example you're copying from C: to F: (and F is a flash drive)
It should show a tick box "Dismount 'F: Bobs Flash Drive' when done"
Or if you're moving files from F: to K: and they're both removable devices, it should show a tick box for both.
Then if the box has been ticked, when the operation is complete the whole Progress bar window will change to a message with an X on the drive Icon saying "Safe to remove 'F: Bobs Flash drive' "
Millions of people use flash drives to quickly copy files from one PC to another. A feature like this will safe a lot of time and hassle for these types of operations.