{"id":295,"date":"2013-08-12T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=295"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:18:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:18:28","slug":"placing-a-devastating-function-by-a-commonly-used-one-ejecting-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Placing a devastating function by a commonly used one &#8211; ejecting devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself nearly formatting my thumb drive. If less careful and more in a hurry, I would just click all those &quot;yes&quot; and &quot;OK&quot; buttons. <strong>In the context menu of Windows Explorer <\/strong>(Windows 8)<strong>, Format and Eject are grouped and even placed together. This is not the way to group functions together<\/strong>. Here are the reasons why: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ejecting is a common process while Formatting is  used rarely (at least I use it rarely)<\/li>\n<li>Formatting can have a devastating consequences (deleted files)<\/li>\n<li>The only consequence of Ejecting if an ejected media <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no_float\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Clipboard01.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>other ways to eject external storage in Windows<\/strong> (e.g. down by the clock in the right bottom corner as in Figure below) which do not have other functions beside. However, it is <strong>more intuitive for me to click on the actual thumb drive<\/strong> in Explorer as in Figure above.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/kb21487-001_en_v10.png\"  class=\"no_float\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Now compare this to Finder in OS X <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-shot-2010-10-29-at-2.11.18-PM.png\"  class=\"no_float\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The button to eject an external hard drive is actually by the hard drive itself<\/strong>. And this is IMHO way more intuitive than some arbitrary position from which it is possible to eject several devices. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself nearly formatting my thumb drive. If less careful and more in a hurry, I would just click all those &quot;yes&quot; and &quot;OK&quot; buttons. In the context menu of Windows Explorer (Windows 8), Format and Eject are grouped and even placed together. This is not the way to group functions together. Here are&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}