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I don't fucking know why I can't eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don't know who's lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 23 hours ago

Waiting in windows explorer in a shared directory for write access to a document, with "notify" set. It says filename.doc is available, double click it. "Sorry psud, this file is being used by psud. Open read only or notify when this file is free?"

Because of course explorer opens the file read/write to show the preview