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File Browser? Who needs it?File Browser? Who needs it?Posted Aug 3, 2012 20:17 UTC (Fri) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)In reply to: File Browser? Who needs it? by dskoll Parent article: McCann: Cross Cut [the future of Nautilus]
I find the file browser (Thunar currently) very useful.
However I must admit that there is only one button that I actually use with any regularity - the 'unmount' button for the SD card that I'm about to pull out. Clicking that really is quicker than typing "sudo umount /media/*" ... though I guess I could create an alias.
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File Browser? Who needs it? Posted Aug 5, 2012 20:20 UTC (Sun) by endecotp (guest, #36428) [Link]
> the 'unmount' button for the SD card that I'm about to pull out.
Automount the SD card, with a short timeout. Then just cd out of the card's filesystem (e.g. "cd", which you were going to do anyway), reach over and pull out the card.
File Browser? Who needs it? Posted Aug 6, 2012 3:53 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
If you have a large quantity of dirty buffers then you'll end up ejecting the card before it's flushed. This isn't a great approach.
File Browser? Who needs it? Posted Aug 6, 2012 17:47 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
You can 'work around' this by mounting it 'sync', which I used to do for my mp3 player. This of course kills responsiveness of moving things onto it, but for my 'scriptflow' this was preferable.
File Browser? Who needs it? Posted Aug 6, 2012 18:31 UTC (Mon) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
why all this? one can just let the card automount, then "mv xxx /media/card; sync; eject /dev/sdX" and it's sync'ed and eject'ed... :-D
File Browser? Who needs it? Posted Aug 7, 2012 16:12 UTC (Tue) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]
Having messed up on several occasions thanks to dirty buffers, seeing as I always have an open konsole, I just unmount in dolphin, then sync in konsole. Seems to work okay - when sync returns the data is flushed.
Cheers,
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