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johnmeikle

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2008-09-21

Posts: 7

Removable media

For some reason I cannot unmount removable media (in my case a USB flash drive) from Thunar using HAL. I believe it is saying that I do not have permission to unmount it. I've tried putting my user in the groups "hal" and "storage". I can't seem to find a solution.

What's strange to me is the fact that it unmounts sometimes but other times not...

Anyone got an idea?

Xyne

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Re: Removable media

Try cd'ing out of the mounted device and closing any apps that might have set their working directory to one on the device (although if that were the issue, I think the error messages would be something like "can't unmount, device is in use").

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johnmeikle

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2008-09-21

Posts: 7

Re: Removable media

That sounds right! I feel so stupid, it's just when I seen the word "permission" in the error dialog I thought I didn't have sufficient privelages to unmount the media.

Thanks.