https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281270
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--- Comment #54 from Eduardo Correia <eduardosare...@gmail.com> ---
This bug is now 14 years old and is one of the most common basically everyday
bugs since it SEVERELY affects exFAT drives and most external USB drives are
now formatted as exFAT out of the box, even the cheaper ones. Will this ever
get fixed? Let's remember that users are used to just remove their USB stick if
a transfer shows "finished" and many "tips" and tutorials on the web nowadays
state that the "remove safely" option on other OSs is obsolete and unneeded.
Works fine on all other OSs and DEs except KDE (discover specifically). This
bug makes basically ALL the files that are bigger than a few KBs take much
longer and will always be corrupted when users just remove their USB stick
thinking the file transfer is "done" when in reality it isn't.
Bugs like these keep new users annoyed with KDE without understanding why (even
if they understand, it still a huge annoyance). People that can't stand GNOME
and just use KDE usually end up moving back to Windows after severe corruption
cases like these.
We are not developers so we don't know how to fix this, and yet the KDE
community advises us users to report any bugs we encounter. Well we did, 14
years ago and still waiting to be fixed. There are dozens of reports of this
bug, many of which are now marked as duplicate. We know, and we keep reporting
it because it keeps being ignored, for 14 years and counting. Also it was
reported in KDE 4.7, we are now on 6.3 and the bug still persists ! Maybe
drop/revise this ancient code ? If the KDE developer community can't do
housekeeping on everything, which is very understandable, maybe we should start
dropping a few features from KDE because clearly there is just not enough
dev-power to support all of them.
I'm sorry if I'm being rude, I'm just stressed out because I just corrupted
some very important big files that I CTRL X + CTRL V (move) to an external USB
drive and removed the USB right after it showed finished. It deleted the source
file automatically, because its was a move operation so I effectively lost both
copies. And please don't blame me for thinking a "finished" transfer was
actually finished. We should not depend on the "remove safely" option thing,
that many people don't even remember or even know how to use.
I basically experienced what is reported in 2021 (4 years ago) in bug #442536
(marked as duplicate of this one) , but I actually lost important data this
time.
Bug still present at 26 May 2025, using Fedora/Nobara 42, KDE 6.3.4, Frameworks
6.13.0, Qt 6.9.0, Kernel 6.14.8, Wayland.
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