I don't fucking know why I can't eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don't know who's lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Honestly, i have the same on XFCE. But if i press the button to force eject, i get some dbus-black-magic-that-failed error and jank it out anyway.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Antivirus, Windows Defender, Bitlocker...

Shall I continue?

Try OpenFilesViewer and Process Explorer, amongst a myriad of other SysInternals utilities..

[–] umbraroze@piefed.social 12 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Told ya, Process Explorer just told me nothing, except Dropbox maybe.

But it doesn't change the usage scenario. I don't care what programs are using the drive. I just need to tell them to fuck off, I need to unplug this drive at this moment.

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

For the future: File Lockpick, from PowerToys. The only thing the Windows product managers haven’t ruined, and only because it’s on Microsoft’s GitHub and not built into the OS. Or in Winget, since this is Lemmy.

You can just right click the drive that won’t eject or the file that won’t cut and it’ll list everything that had a handle open, without digging through the SysInternals programs.

I wonder where my computing would be if I spent all this time scaling the Linux learning curve instead of the Windows one. Probably more friction at my work-issued Windows machine. Probably increasingly many hours saved on “fixing” every successive Windows install.

For me it ends up being SpaceSniffer a solid 20% of the time.

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[–] sgibson5150@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's an ongoing PITA. Windows should come with Process Explorer installed by default.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

I would like there to be a law that mandates a „fuck off“ button in general. Not just „yes, please steal my data now“ or „maybe later“.

[–] rockettaco37@feddit.nu 3 points 3 days ago

This is Microsoft we're talking about here. 🤮

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago

Linux has that button and it just causes users to uninstall their desktop environment.

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