KDE: 'safely remove' does not safely remove

[Paul Smith]

On 11/6/06, Marcelo Magno T. Sales <marcelo.sales at sefaz.pe.gov.br> wrote:
> > The option of "safely remove" for removing pen drives is not working
> > properly here. To safely remove my pen drive I have to use the command
> > line through the command 'umount /dev/sda1'. Any ideas how to repair
> > that?
>
> Do you wait for the pendrive icon vanishes from desktop or konqueror after
> clicking "safely remove"? It may take some time to flush the pending data
> write operations to the pendrive. It's safe to remove it only when the it's
> icon disappear (i.e., when it's automatically unmounted).

The icon never disappears.

Paul