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by Ryder123 1590 days ago
As the article points out, a lot of those cases can be detected with advanced notice (dying battery, and overheating - probably even being too cold). In those cases the OS makes sure all the caches are flushed.

Spilled drinks are a viable cause for concern, but if they do enough damage to cause an unexpected shutdown, you've probably got bigger issues than unflushed cache.
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ClumsyPilot 1589 days ago
"In those cases the OS makes sure all the caches are flushed."

I have never heard of this functionality being included in any major OS, could you please provide some reference to this being documented?

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dathinab 1589 days ago
I think that's misleading.

On many laptops even with water damage you can recover your local data fully, not do for Macs (for more reasons then just data loss/corruption due to non flushing).

Especially if you are already in a bad situation you don't want your OS to make it worse.

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