safely remove hardware

[DigiBee]

Now an then I open pictures directly from my sd-card, via an usb card-reader. Sometimes when I am finished with the picture, and try to safely remove the card, I cannot do that. I tried to reproduce this problem but failled, the bug looks random. I suspect it has to do with some data read/written to the card or a temp lockfile orso, dunno. The only work-around is not only to close the active documents, I have to close AP so I can remove the card safely.

Not sure if this occurs in the latest AP 1.8.2 (Win7). I had it a couple of times in previous versions.

[Chris B]

Hey DigiBee,

This is because we don't load the file into memory like other apps do. So closing down the edited image would make sense in this case, however what is troublesome is that you seemingly also need to close down the application as well. 

I have a feeling I have seen this before so I'll try and track it down. Thank you for bringing this up.

Oh and welcome to the Affinity Forums. 

[DigiBee]

Yes, I am aware that active files can cause problems on connected storages. Usually it's enough to close those files.

[Chris B]

So we should actually be loading it to temp so as long as the copy has finished, it shouldn't matter if you pull the card out, even without safely ejecting it (I'm not recommending you do this). So why it informs you that you cannot do this is puzzling.

I will need to seek more info.