just a glow or badge on a removable drive icon that requires you to hit the “Safely remove” button to clear it would at least give someone pause before yanking the thing out.
this doesn’t really address OP’s concern tho.
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I can assert you it’s extremely common. My father will regularly do this because the copy process told him it’s done. Non-tech people don’t understand the background details and won’t always remember to use the safely remove action.
Actually, I’m pretty sure microsoft changed this behavior somewhere with windows 10 so that using the remove action has not been necessary ever since, at least there’s articles about this, I don’t actually have ways to confirm this right now.
Anyway, I’m all for communicating to the user that the copy process is not actually “done” yet for removable drives, if this is technically possible.
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