USB thumb drive pulled and icon left on desktop - how do I remove it??

[Christian Csar]

Assuming that when you say you tried to unmount it you mean that you
right clicked and selected unmount, then you could also try unmounting
it from the command line i.e. umount /media/disk or something similar. I
believe that if you mounted it in the first place, then you should not
need root privileges.

Christian

Jay Ridgley wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Yes, I know, I did it wrong...
> 
> I did a backup to a thumb drive I had inserted in a USB port. After the 
> backup task completed and without thinking clearly, I simply pulled the 
> drive out; now the icon that indicates the 4.1 GB Media is mounted 
> remains. I have tried to unmount the drive that doesn't work and move it 
> to trash and that did not work either.
> 
> If I put the drive back in a new icon pops up and I can unmount it and 
> that one goes away. The other one just hangs around...
> 
> Short of logging out and back in (I am not sure that will work either, 
> since a user swap left it) or restarting my system how do I  go about 
> removing this critter?
> 
> Cheers,
> Jay
>