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Kevin Meyers
 

 

Hello, I’m using the most recent versions of windows10 and Jaws 2023. I heard there is an arrow in the lower right corner of the screen which allows the external hard drive to be disconnected rather than unplugging it. Is there a way for Jaws to recognize this arrow?

Thanks,

Kevin

 
Brian Vogel
 

There is no arrow for that purpose.  What you're thinking of is the Notification Chevron, which typically exposes the eject option in the overflow area.

Since all the way back in Windows 7 it is unnecessary to eject a drive provided you know that it is not actively being written.  Quick removal (which means you can just pull the plug) has been the default setting for years now.  However, if you want to eject then activate the Notification Chevron, which is the first item when focus is thrown to the system tray with WinKey + B, and look for it in the items there.  If you have more than one drive plugged in (and that includes thumb drives) then when the eject option is activated each will be shown as an option to eject.  I have not personally ejected drives for decades, literally, now.
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 11 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 22621; Office 2016, Version 16.0.15726.20188, 32-bit; Android 12 (MIUI 13)  

I recoil from any definition of the relationship between artist and audience that is predicated on the audience claiming a sense of betrayal over who someone is or isn’t outside of the context in which they’re performing. What we know about an artist’s personal identity can be interesting and even illuminating; what we are entitled to know is … nothing, basically.

            ~ Mark Harris, Is Celebrity ‘Queer Baiting’ Really Such a Crime?, 

               T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Feb. 6, 2023
Marty Hutchings
 

Is there a way to know if a program or process is writing to a drive without me having actively written to the drive?  That is why I usually go to the Safely Remove a drive, because if there is something being written to the drive, it will alert me to that fact if I try to eject.

On 3/21/2023 9:47 AM, Brian Vogel wrote:

There is no arrow for that purpose.  What you're thinking of is the Notification Chevron, which typically exposes the eject option in the overflow area.

Since all the way back in Windows 7 it is unnecessary to eject a drive provided you know that it is not actively being written.  Quick removal (which means you can just pull the plug) has been the default setting for years now.  However, if you want to eject then activate the Notification Chevron, which is the first item when focus is thrown to the system tray with WinKey + B, and look for it in the items there.  If you have more than one drive plugged in (and that includes thumb drives) then when the eject option is activated each will be shown as an option to eject.  I have not personally ejected drives for decades, literally, now.
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 11 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 22621; Office 2016, Version 16.0.15726.20188, 32-bit; Android 12 (MIUI 13)  

I recoil from any definition of the relationship between artist and audience that is predicated on the audience claiming a sense of betrayal over who someone is or isn’t outside of the context in which they’re performing. What we know about an artist’s personal identity can be interesting and even illuminating; what we are entitled to know is … nothing, basically.

            ~ Mark Harris, Is Celebrity ‘Queer Baiting’ Really Such a Crime?, 

               T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Feb. 6, 2023
Brian Vogel
 

On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 10:58 AM, Marty Hutchings wrote:
Is there a way to know if a program or process is writing to a drive without me having actively written to the drive?
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That would depend entirely on what you're doing with that external drive.  I use my external backup drives only for backups, so if the backup software notifies me that a backup is complete, I know the writing is done.  The same if I am using it with something like XCOPY or restic to take user data backups.  If the command prompt comes back then I know the command I ran has completed and writing is done, since Quick Remove is in force.

If you use your external drive for all sorts of random output from many different programs at once, then this becomes much more difficult to impossible.  I know of very few people who use an external hard drive with many programs doing reading and writing to it simultaneously.

All I'm saying is if you can be very reasonably certain that no writing to the drive is occurring, nothing is corrupted by just pulling the plug.  Even if reading is going on, that does not screw anything up except for the program that was doing the reading at the time.  But since I almost never read from an external drive unless doing a restore or recovery, that's a non-issue, too.
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 11 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 22621; Office 2016, Version 16.0.15726.20188, 32-bit; Android 12 (MIUI 13)  

I recoil from any definition of the relationship between artist and audience that is predicated on the audience claiming a sense of betrayal over who someone is or isn’t outside of the context in which they’re performing. What we know about an artist’s personal identity can be interesting and even illuminating; what we are entitled to know is … nothing, basically.

            ~ Mark Harris, Is Celebrity ‘Queer Baiting’ Really Such a Crime?, 

               T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Feb. 6, 2023

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