Eject button does not work after 10.4.9 update.

For some reason the eject button at the top right of the keyboard stopped working after I updated...I can still eject from the finder but I'd rather use the button since I'm used to it. I tried repairing permissions. Does anyone have an idea?

According to the highly critical individuals on the MacNN forums, 10.4.9 introduced a delay to the eject button on the keyboard to prevent accidental ejection of a CD/DVD from fat-fingering it. Some really hate it.

In other words - try holding it down for about a second.

oh wow, you're right! it works. hmm.....i can't tell if i like this...are we allowed to choose? this will take some getting used to.

You know, I had this problem earlier. I had to manually eject the CD but totally forgot about it. Thanks for the tip walker!

Yeah, I was having the same problem until I realized you had to hold the eject button. It is kind of annoying though - is it possible to change this setting?

Oh, I'm sure there's some kind of .plist somewhere that could be modified to change the behavior or a variant of the 'defaults' command that might do it, but I haven't really looked into it personally.

I look at it as being more consistent with the behavior of an actual eject button on a CD drive on other machines. I have to depress the eject button for a few seconds on the physical drives of many machines I maintain at work, so this behavior isn't really all that different. I suppose it's just not 'Mac-like'.

I discovered this too, and noticed when I held it down for about 1 second it would open the drawer of the drive. It will take about a week to get used to it. It doesn't really bother me, but I never had a problem with accidentally ejecting discs before. There probably should be an option to allow the user to set immediate eject if they like.

theres a new release? I like the sound of the delay on the eject button because I'm one of those people that hits the eject button instead of delete

Cassifire said:

Well, for those of us without Apple Keyboards, we ALWAYS have to use the Finder.

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:bomb: People don't use Apple keyboards?

I like this. I accidentally hit the eject button a lot. Sometimes when I try to hit the f12 key I am not paying attention and hit that.

StretchR said:

:bomb: People don't use Apple keyboards?

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Yep.:headphone

I personally like it too. I've found myself accidently hitting the Eject button and then it makes that noise, which can be a bit embarrassing when in a very quiet classroom :bomb:

Thanks so much walkerj. Lots of people probably think it's broken and 10.4.9 messed it all up so thanks for clearing that up.

I personally like it as I have hit the Eject a few times by accident real fast and now it will not spit the disc out of I do! Good Job Walkerj and Apple!!1

Kash said:

I personally like it too. I've found myself accidently hitting the Eject button and then it makes that noise, which can be a bit embarrassing when in a very quiet classroom :bomb:

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I like it too. I was always accidentally ejecting disks when i tried to delete. I've also noticed that it no longer makes the eject sound if there isn't a disk in the drive. So you're saved on both count.

I like it aswell, as It was annoying when I use to accidentally his the Eject Button when moving my hand from my mouse to my keyboard and vice versa.

There's another little trick I read if you now press CTRL + Eject...Go on Do it...Yep Wow! I thought that was Handy of them.