[Mxsmanic]

Gary Eickmeier writes:

Interesting. But I suppose it is a different story if you remove the flash
drive or memory card from the computer before the little icon says "Safely
Remove" - right?

Yes. There's no way for software to bypass a hardware change. Once the
contacts slide out of the slot, communication is lost, so if the changes
haven't been written to the card, you have a serious problem.

The same is true for removing the power, although what seems like an instant
loss of power to a human being can often still provide useful power for a fair
amount of work inside a computer. Many systems can execute short
emergency-shutdown routines with just the power that remains if a power cut is
detected. This may not extend to the slower and more power-hungry operations
of physically writing to a disk or card, though.