CD wont eject

feyd · Jun 10, 2005

i do a lot of web / graphic design and receive cds from clients that do not always register (they do not show up on the desktop or in the finder list)... the eject [f12] key is useless in this case.
can anyone tell me if there is another way to eject the cd with out having to restart my ibook?
id appreicate it
-feyd

witeshark · Jun 11, 2005

Have you tried Apple E?

sarahsboy18 · Jun 11, 2005

That's strange... Usually when my Macs can't read a disk they just spit it right back out.

feyd · Jun 11, 2005

hungry hungry ibooks

sarahsboy18 said:
That's strange... Usually when my Macs can't read a disk they just spit it right back out.

i guess mine's kinda selfish...

sometimes mine does but i am not sure if it also has to do with the discs being of pc origin???

and to witeshark:
im tempted to find a bad disc, just so i can try apple e! *laughs* but ill try and restrain myself... *laughs* <---typed with good humour
i now am armed with the knowledge!
- thanks
-feyd

Aptmunich · Jun 11, 2005

If all else fails (apple + e / dragging to trash / F12) then reboot your mac and hold down the mouse button at the startup chime...
That'll force any disks in the drive to be ejected.

Benjamindaines · Jun 11, 2005

Aptmunich said:
If all else fails (apple + e / dragging to trash / F12) then reboot your mac and hold down the mouse button at the startup chime...
That'll force any disks in the drive to be ejected.

Yes thats all you can do if they dont mount i wonder why apple took the pinhole off that would make life easier

sarahsboy18 · Jun 11, 2005

benjamindaines said:
Yes thats all you can do if they dont mount i wonder why apple took the pinhole off that would make life easier

I guess it just wasn't "visually appealling" enough with it on there.

Benjamindaines · Jun 11, 2005

sarahsboy18 said:
I guess it just wasn't "visually appealling" enough with it on there.

Thats my one complaint about apple; they are willing to sacrifice functionality for looks

D3v1L80Y · Jun 11, 2005

benjamindaines said:
Thats my one complaint about apple; they are willing to sacrifice functionality for looks

It's not a question of asthetics; if that was the case then there wouldn't be a pinhole mic on the iBook.
The reason is that it is a slot loading drive, so there is no tray to release, which is what happens when you have a pinhole release on a CD drive.

Benjamindaines · Jun 11, 2005

D3v1L80Y said:
It's not a question of asthetics; if that was the case then there wouldn't be a pinhole mic on the iBook.
The reason is that it is a slot loading drive, so there is no tray to release, which is what happens when you have a pinhole release on a CD drive.

There isnt a tray but it could move the little thing that pushes the disk out

rs2sensen · Jun 12, 2005

It seems like my Powerbook is slow ejecting CDs. Sometimes, I'll accidentally hit the eject button next to F12, which the apple designers seemed to think was a good place to put it (right next to the delete button, that I use a lot!), and that will usually work really fast. But whenever I actually want it to eject, it seems like it takes forever.

sarahsboy18 · Jun 12, 2005

rs2sensen said:
Sometimes, I'll accidentally hit the eject button next to F12, which the apple designers seemed to think was a good place to put it (right next to the delete button, that I use a lot!)

YES!!!! Finally... I thought I was the only one who did this. That is one of the few things I will, without hesitation, criticize Apple for. Disks never stay in my PB very long because I am constantly spitting them back out at myself..... And DVDs... UGH..... every time you push them back in DVD player has to open and then you have wait to close it and.......

Ok, sorry, enough of that rant.

rs2sensen · Jun 12, 2005

sarahsboy18 said:
YES!!!! Finally... I thought I was the only one who did this. That is one of the few things I will, without hesitation, criticize Apple for. Disks never stay in my PB very long because I am constantly spitting them back out at myself..... And DVDs... UGH..... every time you push them back in DVD player has to open and then you have wait to close it and.......

Ok, sorry, enough of that rant.

grrrrr! I totally agree with you! Well, I think this is the 2nd kinda odd thing we've agreed on, yesterday it was people with WordPerfect and Publisher!

Aptmunich · Jun 12, 2005

And DVDs... UGH..... every time you push them back in DVD player has to open and then you have wait to close it and.......

Well you can turn that behaviour off in the system preferences CD/DVD panel...

I actually think the F12 key is quite an elegant solution, but I suppose each to his own!

rs2sensen · Jun 12, 2005

I like having the eject button, but I don't like that it is right above the delete button, one of the most commonly used buttons on the keyboard. I'd personally rather it was switched with say, the fn button, which I rarely need to use. Although that puts it next to Shift, but Shift is bigger than delete so it might still work better. Or how about squeezing it in by my arrow keys?

Benjamindaines · Jun 12, 2005

rs2sensen said:
I like having the eject button, but I don't like that it is right above the delete button, one of the most commonly used buttons on the keyboard. I'd personally rather it was switched with say, the fn button, which I rarely need to use. Although that puts it next to Shift, but Shift is bigger than delete so it might still work better. Or how about squeezing it in by my arrow keys?

Or make it so you have to hold it down for a few seconds

rs2sensen · Jun 12, 2005

benjamindaines said:
Or make it so you have to hold it down for a few seconds

now theres an idea!

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