Is is safe to veto disk re-insertion prompts?

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From: Julian Vrieslander
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1986 06:46

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Often when I am swapping floppies or shutting down, the Mac Plus (running
System 3.2, Finder 5.3) will prompt me to insert a disk that was previously
ejected, and that has no apparent reason for needing re-insertion.  Maybe
this is a minor annoyance, but sometimes it means re-booting (eg. if you just
gave the disk to someone on his way to Tokyo).

I just discovered that the disk insertion prompt can be made to disappear
without inserting the disk, if you hit command-period.  This is handy, but
I wonder if there are situations where this is dangerous.  My best guess is
that the worst that can happen is that you might miss a FlushVol call to the
disk that was requested, which is no big deal if the disk was on the way to
the re-cycle box.

Any other opinions on this?

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