i seem to be accident prone with my ipad. i unplugged my ipad without ejecting it. what problems could that cause, if any?
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i unplugged my ipad without ejecting
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the iPhone and iPad don't need to be ejected the way iPods have to. it annoys me to no end that i have to eject my iPod classic still.
iOS devices support wireless sync since iOS 5 which means my iPhone has been disconnected without ejecting every time I've walked out of range of my wifi. If you do encounter any problems it's very easy to restore the device but I'm 99% sure you have nothing to worry about. 
when ive just synced with itunes. i didn't click the arrow thing to eject my ipad... i just unplugged it without thinking. could it brick the ipad or just corrupt the files? if that's the problem a restore should fix it, right?
It is, as if you unplug your iPad in the middle of a sync or a software update or something it could mess things up bad. However if there is nothing happening when you unplug it there is nothing that can corrupt. It's just a precaution, like having to have your iDevice battery at over 50% or plugged in when preforming an iOS update
Unplugging in the middle of a sync would cause corruption. if there is nothing actively going on between iTunes and the iPad when you unplug it, there is nothing going on to be corrupted.
Welcome to 2012. I think your ok to do so. It's not like yanking a USB drive out of a windows of computer. Usually. When ejecting something. The computer makes sure all actions were performed so upon ejection no files can get currupted. You should be ok with the iPad since it doesn't seem to have corrupt files even if you were syncing music and unplugged it while it wrote a song from one drive to another.
"safely ejecting" (unmounting it) an usb drive just deletes the write cache.
sooooo if you dont like all the unnecessary yellow other space possibly filling up your iDevice. i suggest you eject it.
oh okay. well i had finished syncing so i guess it's fine.
now for future reference, it if was unplugged (accidentally of course) mid sync, or mid update or something, would a restore resolve any problems?
Yes, it should, since there shouldn't be any physical damage to the device itself.
Don't quote me but I'd imagine it was just the song or app that is syncing at the time that gets corrupted. Another sync would fix the broken app.
You know, I always thought premature ejeculation meant something entirely different...
I did this with my HP touchpad once. A message came up on the screen that said "ouch, please don't do that!" or something similar. It was pretty funny and I kinda felt sorry for it.
In the good old days there'd be a horrible rhyme to scare little kids out of this practice.
Let's see:
Johnny was a lazy boy,
Who treated his iPad like a toy.
And so when it was time for tea,
He'd just yank out the USB.
His mother gave him a worried hug,
"Always eject before you unplug,
Or the Dongle Man, all dressed in red,
Will pull the teeth out of your head."
Johnny, laughing at this fact,
Continued to carelessly extract,
His iPad from it's receptacle,
With no regard for protocol.
One night as Johnny soundly slept.
Into his room a strange beast crept.
Dressed all o'er in robes of red,
All hung about with dongles, dead,
In bore with it a fearsome widget,
An extractor tool (5 bucks from iFixit).
And Johnny, despite his disbelief,
Woke up to find he had no teeth.
So heed this tale, or else expect,
Next time you improperly eject,
The Dongle Man to visit your room,
And leave you eating with a spoon.
Sorry - definitely flagging a bit at the end there.
(Apologies to Heinrich Hoffmann)
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