30-09-2005, 22:51
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Disc in Mac
I've borrowed my sisters Mac computer whilst shes away, I put a CD in the slot in the monitor but theres no eject button, can't find anywhere on screen to eject it.....I presume I'm missing something really obvious to get my CD out?
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30-09-2005, 22:54
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Re: Disc in Mac
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Originally Posted by HornetUK
I've borrowed my sisters Mac computer whilst shes away, I put a CD in the slot in the monitor but theres no eject button, can't find anywhere on screen to eject it.....I presume I'm missing something really obvious to get my CD out?
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Top right button on the keyboard. It has a triangle with a rectangle underneath it on it.
Or drag the cd icon to the recycle bin...
Edit: When I got my first G5, it took me nearly half an hour to figure this out 
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30-09-2005, 22:54
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Re: Disc in Mac
drag the cd icon from the desktop to the trash can and drop it there...
when you're over the trash can it will turn to an eject icon.
on some macs holding F12 is eject too.
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30-09-2005, 22:55
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Re: Disc in Mac
There should be an eject button on the keyboard, near the backspace key.
Failing that, reboot the computer whilst holding down the mouse button, and it should spit the disk out.
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30-09-2005, 23:32
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Re: Disc in Mac
Well so much for fantastic Mac OS usability 
Why can't you just right-click on the icon and select "eject"? How is dragging the disk to the trash possibly a sensible way of doing it?
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30-09-2005, 23:33
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Re: Disc in Mac
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Originally Posted by Tristan
Well so much for fantastic Mac OS usability
Why can't you just right-click on the icon and select "eject"? How is dragging the disk to the trash possibly a sensible way of doing it? |
...or having an eject button on the hardware?
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30-09-2005, 23:36
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Re: Disc in Mac
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Originally Posted by Tristan
Well so much for fantastic Mac OS usability
Why can't you just right-click on the icon and select "eject"? How is dragging the disk to the trash possibly a sensible way of doing it? |
Macs do not have 'right click', they have a one-button mouse (and no scroll wheel)
I'm with you on the irony regarding Mac usability though. 
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Re: Disc in Mac
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...or having an eject button on the hardware?
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Well not having an eject button I can kind of understand... being Unix-based, Mac OS would probably have a problem if the disk ejected without being unmounted properly, as Windows does (uncancellable warnings, anyone?) when you remove a disk it thinks it can read from.
It's for this reason that Linux tends to disable the hardware eject button when a disk is mounted.
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01-10-2005, 14:40
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Re: Disc in Mac
Cheers everyone disc out with trash can.
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01-10-2005, 15:08
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Re: Disc in Mac
If you plug a 2 button scrollwheel mouse in then you can use all the functionality, and yes, you can right click the cd icon and click eject But yes, where's the usability in 1 Mouse button!?
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01-10-2005, 15:17
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Re: Disc in Mac
To be honest, I don't think that the "Drag the CD to the trashcan" is any more or less logical than expecting people to right click and select eject.
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01-10-2005, 15:46
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Re: Disc in Mac
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Originally Posted by Tristan
Well so much for fantastic Mac OS usability
Why can't you just right-click on the icon and select "eject"? How is dragging the disk to the trash possibly a sensible way of doing it? |
Ummmâ₠¬Ã‚¦ You can. If you have a multi-button mouse you right-cick and select "Eject", if not you Ctrl-click and select "Eject".
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01-10-2005, 16:53
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Re: Disc in Mac
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Originally Posted by Lew
Ummmâ₠¬Ã‚¦ You can. If you have a multi-button mouse you right-cick and select "Eject", if not you Ctrl-click and select "Eject".
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Troll rating? How am I supposed to know Macs still only have one-button mice? Pretty daft in this day and age isn't it?
I maintain that dragging the disk icon onto the trashcan is definitely not a logical way to unmount or eject a disk. It might be a logical way to wipe a CD-RW, though...
And in any case, I can't be an anti-Mac troll. I'm a strong Linux advocate, and we're both fighting the same enemy...
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