On Feb 25, 2006, at 8:41 PM, Ginny Evans wrote:
I just turn it off, I will get a "memo" window telling me that my aux. HD was improperly shut down & I may have lost data. (To my knowledge, I've never lost anything, but--).
You are lucky. It is entirely possible to trash the entire volume doing that. I did it on my USB thumb drive (256MB) which was nearly full. Yanking it out without properly dismounting it turned every file into a 4K stub, yet the space was still recorded as in use.
I had to reformat it to be able to use it again; I was NOT able to recover any files from it. (two files were irreplaceable, that sucked having to do that work over.)
I suspect FW is less susceptible to this than USB, but as a main purpose of FW drives out there seems to be a backup, I'd be careful.
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