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What catastrophic thing are you actually preventing when you click 'safely remove' on a flash drive?

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What catastrophic thing are you actually preventing when you click 'safely remove' on a flash drive?

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What catastrophic thing are you actually preventing when you click 'safely remove' on a flash drive?
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