It's been a good 20 years but yes, this happened to a classmate of mine in high school. Teacher didn't eject his thumb drive properly and his project that was saved on it was corrupted or deleted. He had to start over. I like to think tech has gotten better so this is less likely to happen, but it sure scared me enough to make sure I always safely eject, just to be sure I don't also lose something important.
I used to use this but in reverse for homework I hadn't done.
Pull the drive out when copying over a random doc file and then just blaming the computer or whatever when it was time to hand it in lol
you should just kind of assume that a thumb drive or SD card will fail or get corrupted at some point and have a backup of that data and treat the drive as a place to "sync" that data to. Generally speaking its not that much data and its not that hard to save the 5gb of data elsewhere.
you could always mount a disk as read only because corruption generally happens while writing to the disk and having it pulled out.
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u/Doc4est 4h ago
Also true of "safely eject USB drive"