Hi all

I'm trying to set up lots of my music albums for my Bolero on USB flash drives before my first 700mile drive (in my new Octavia SE) to the south of France next week. Sorted out most problems OK  - USB format, display of album cover, MP3 files, etc. etc.
However, the Info..... manual gives a menu option for the 'safe' removal of USB device.  What is this? - I don't need to go into the menu to change a CD - why should I for a USB drive?

 

But you still need to eject a CD............ It's just the same as would on a computer, although you can set them to allow you to just remove it straight away. 

Normally it's so that it can do things 'gracefully' - so, for instance, on a windows OS it tells all processes using the drive to write all data pending to the disk before cutting it off to prevent data corruption and files being left incomplete and thus damaged.

With the car just reading music it's a muchness; just unplug it when the car and electrics are off and you'll have no issue. I do this when adding bits to my SD card and never had an issue plus it will only ever be reading data anyway so the chance of issues is so remote it's not worth the option.

Normally it's so that it can do things 'gracefully' - so, for instance, on a windows OS it tells all processes using the drive to write all data pending to the disk before cutting it off to prevent data corruption and files being left incomplete and thus damaged.

With the car just reading music it's a muchness; just unplug it when the car and electrics are off and you'll have no issue. I do this when adding bits to my SD card and never had an issue plus it will only ever be reading data anyway so the chance of issues is so remote it's not worth the option.

Thanks for response

I will follow your suggestion - not concerned about any damage to USB drives (cheap as chips) only to car's electronics.

Still baffled as to why ejecting a CD (a physical process) is not an equivalent procedure - I don't stop the car to do that!