How can i eject a dvd from my macbook

Tom Nelson. Facebook Twitter. Updated on August 01, Tweet Share Email. Apple Macs iPad. In This Article. Ejection Tricks for External Optical Drives.

If All Else Fails. How to Open the Tray. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Email Address Sign up There was an error. Please try again. You're in! Thanks for signing up. This keyboard shortcut will force your CD to eject if the Eject key isn't working but the CD drive is undamaged. Use the Finder. Open the Finder—which resembles a blue, face-shaped icon in your Mac's Dock—then do the following: Find the disk's name under "Devices" on the left side of the window.

Click the "Eject" triangle icon to the right of the disk's name. Drag the disk icon into the trash. Locate the disk icon on your computer's desktop, click and drag it onto the Trash Can in the lower-right corner of the screen, and release the disk icon. This should prompt the CD to eject from your Mac. Eject the disc with iTunes. To do so: Open iTunes Click Controls in the upper-left side of the screen.

Method 2. Close any open apps. Some CD drives—especially external ones—won't respond to ejection commands if the CD is currently being used by an app.

You can keep web browsers open, but make sure things like iTunes, media players, video games, and any other programs that might be using the disk are shut down. Tilt your Mac while ejecting the disk. Angle the disk slot side of the Mac downward, then use one of the disk ejection techniques that you'd use for a working disk. Sometimes mechanical parts that drive the CD ejection can become weakened over time; gravity may provide the push you need to release the CD.

Restart your Mac while holding down the mouse button. This will usually prompt your Mac to force the CD to eject upon starting back up. If you use a traditional mouse with your Mac, make sure you're holding down the left mouse button. Use Disk Utility to open the CD tray. Use a Terminal command. Retry the above methods after giving your computer a break. Shut down your computer for as long as possible at least 10 minutes , then turn it back on and work through the above methods again to see if any of them work.

Take your computer to a professional. What a nightmare this has been. Thanks to Dani for the help… Howard. Thank you so much. Got a CD stuck just now and your method saved me getting even more annoyed with myself and even more tears, so thank you. I have the Aluminum MacBook. I forgot to eject the disc after finishing some software installing that required a restart. It would only read from the disc. Clicking down on the track pad during boot worked for me. Victoria and Monica if you two visit this site again to see our comments well hey you two sound cute!

This info really helped thank you so much. As a Mac tech, all good and useful ideas. The 45 degree angle worked like a charm. Eventually got it out by turning on computer, tilting it and pressing eject. Bingo it worked. Thank you for saving my weekend. Kudos to you!!! Holy crap, that worked. Thanks for the tips.

I tried all of your methods several times, then after i put a thick card in and tilted it and pushed eject, took out the card-out popped the CD- Many thanks. First, quit all applications that are using files on the disc. Then try one of these alternate methods:. If your drive has an emergency eject hole, put the computer to sleep and insert a large, straightened paper clip in the small emergency eject hole of the drive the location varies, depending on the drive.

Push firmly until the disc ejects. Use Open Firmware to eject the disc if all other methods fail this may not work on all computers. To use this method, you have to start up and briefly use the computer using Open Firmware, not the standard Mac OS X desktop. To eject a disc using Open Firmware: Restart the computer. When you hear the startup sound, press and hold the Command-Option-O-F keys. The Command key has an Apple on it. Press Return, then wait a few seconds.

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