"jodzeee" <jodzeee@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thank you, since you put it that way I guess that makes sense. For years
> I've
> been using the "safely remove..." because I thought I was supposed to.
Operating systems before Vista may have had caching turned on by default.
This means there could be data still unwritten to the drive. In order to
flush the
cache, you had to use the safely remove option. With Vista, the cache is
off
by default so any data is written to the USB drive immediately and you can
pull
out the USB device as soon as its light goes out (if it has one).
Tom Lake