Thunar and the delay unmounting USB memory

[Sergio]

--- Em dom, 18/11/12, Andreas Rönnquist <mailinglists at gusnan.se> escreveu:

> De: Andreas Rönnquist <mailinglists at gusnan.se>
> Assunto: Thunar and the delay unmounting USB memory
> Para: "Xfce Users Mailinglist" <xfce at xfce.org>
> Data: Domingo, 18 de Novembro de 2012, 18:32
> Hi
> 
> Is there a way to change the timeout delay Thunar uses for
> unmounting
> USB units? Trying to copy big files to USB I run into
> problems using
> Thunar and unmounting the USB memory stick, I get an unmount
> failure
> during the data copying. (If I wait, the data is still
> written, but
> without giving any clue on when it is done writing - and
> because of
> this a great chance of physically removing the device before
> the data
> is actually written.)
> 
> I get the following error, way before the copying is done:
> 
> > Failed unmounting 'Devicename'
> > "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the
> remote
> > application did not send a reply, the message bus
> security policy
> > blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the
> network
> > connection was broken."  
> 
> See my original thread on the Debian-User mailinglist:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/11/msg00758.html
> and the
> followups.
> 
> My guess (much thanks to the great help by the people in
> the
> Debian-user list) is that I would need to increase the timed
> delay that
> Thunar waits before claiming that no result will come. Is
> there any
> setting somewhere where I can change this?
> 
> This is however on Debian Stable, and an older Thunar
> (1.0.2).
> 
> Help would be greatly appreciated.
> -- Andreas Rönnquist
> mailinglists at gusnan.se
> gusnan at gusnan.se
> 

Current version only unmounts when finished writing to the device.
Other than using pendrives with a light so you can see the operation, I think you running 'sync' on the terminal will tell you when it's done.