Does dolphin `sync` disks after a move operation?

[mlincett]

We recently discussed this:

"Do not unplug yet! Files are still being transferred..."

I transferred a big file to a USB device (flash memory card). The KDE GUI showed the bar going from 0% to 100% and then disappeared. After that, I picked “safely remove” in KDE Plasma’s menu in the bottom-right, but now it says: Do not unplug yet! Files are still being transferred... Clearly, the data was not really transferred while it showed the progress meter. But what was it doing then? How can data appear to transfer yet not really? There is no progress indicator this time, and the “circ…

tl; dr: I believe that only unmounting the device will trigger a sync and you’ll get notified as soon as the device is ready to be unplugged.