File copy to USB appears to finish too fast

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Safe to remove USB device?

First of all, long term Ubuntu MATE user here and I love it, good job devs! I’m currently running Ubuntu MATE 16.04 and for about as long as I’ve been running 16.04 I find it really frustrating how there is no pop up notification informing me when it is safe to remove a USB storage device. Quite often I will transfer large files to NTFS formatted external media, wait until the progress bar completes, eject the drive and give it a sec before removing only to find that the file had not finished f…