Thunar and the delay unmounting USB memory

[Tomás Acauan Schertel]

Sometimes tumbler hooks devices when generating thumbnails for videos or
images.




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On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Andreas Rönnquist
<mailinglists at gusnan.se>wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:12:09 -0800 (PST),
> Sergio<sergiocmailbox-xfce at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> >--- Em dom, 18/11/12, Andreas Rönnquist <mailinglists at gusnan.se>
> >escreveu:
> >> 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.)
> >>
> -------------------- 8< --------------------
> >
> >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.
>
> Thanks, but that kind of defeats the purpose (at least for me) -
> copying through the Thunar GUI, and then being forced to the terminal
> to determine when in its done - Then I find it just as well to make the
> entire copy through the terminal....
>
> Thanks anyway!
> -- Andreas Rönnquist
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