Top Ten Things to Improve in OS X Leopard
- November 6th, 2006
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While most of these are fairly esoteric, TUAW has some good ideas for making OS X even better than the average bear. For example:
Removing applications - and all their baggage: Deleting (or “uninstalling”) an app on Mac OS X is easy: you just move it to the trash. But what about all the extra data apps create when you use them (databases, media libraries, etc.)?
Because Apple pays us to love them — actually they don’t but wouldn’t that be nice — we consider this list a group of “wants” rather than needs, aside from idle disk removal sans unmounting. Unmounting is a one-click procedure, but the little window that pops up reminding you that you’ve just destroyed all your data and potentially made yourself sterile is a bit much. Just give us a graceful unmount procedure without wigging out, OS X.
LKM (Who am I?)
1 year ago
>Just give us a graceful unmount
>procedure without wigging out, OS X.
This is an extremely weird request. It’s impossible to create a save way which allows users to just unplug storage devices. The savest option is to have a fully journalled file system which allows rollbacks in case of device removal during a write action. Even so, that means that the data which the system was trying to save to the device never actually got written. And since flash cards only allow for a limited amount of read-write-cycles, most systems probably cache written data and don’t write them directly after an application tells them to.
Operating Systems which allow unsave removal of storage devices are putting your data at risk.