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• Eject button for mac in vlc? how to#

Click and drag, or click and File/Eject, or click and Command-E. You can also use Command-E and do it from the keyboard. If you click on the disc ONCE you’ll select it, and if it’s selected you can choose Eject from the Finder’s File menu. Maybe now you’ll see the icon for the disc, and maybe now you can drag it to the Trash. Close up the Finder’s Preferences and have a look around the Desktop. While you’re in there, in the Sidebar section check the box for CDs, DVDs, and iPods too. In the Finder, choose Finder/Preferences… and in the General section check the box for CDs, DVDs and iPods. You might have to change a Finder Preference to make the discs appear. But… by default, CDs and DVDs don’t show up on the Desktop, so you may not have anything to drag anyway. Everyone feels that way (except for the people at Apple who came up with the idea.) Turns out that the Trash can icon will change to look like an Eject icon (like the Eject key on the keyboard) as soon as you start dragging the disc, so you’re “ejecting” and not “throwing away” the disc but there’s no way of knowing that until you do it.

I know it’s weird and I know it makes you feel as if you’re going to erase the disc by doing it. If you see the disc’s icon on the Desktop you can drag it to the Trash in the Dock. (Trackpad users: click and hold on the trackpad.) If the Mac starts up completely and still the disc doesn’t eject we will have to move on to Step 3.ģ. If that didn’t work, restart the Mac, and when you hear it go “Bong” click on the mouse and hold the mouse button down until the disc ejects.

Eject button for mac in vlc? how to#

But, at least you know how to make the keyboard’s Eject key work– hold it down.īonus Tip: on some keyboards F12 is the same as the Eject key. Why WE should suffer because someone else can’t type properly is not something I can answer. Apple decided a few operating systems back that pressing and HOLDING would be the better way to use the eject key because some people were inadvertently touching the eject button and accidentally ejecting things. Sometimes people don’t hold it down long enough for the “eject” message to get through.

Press the Eject key on the keyboard and hold it down. So don’t do that.Īssuming that all you did was put in a regulation-sized round CD (or a DVD), and now it’s stuck inside and won’t come out, let’s run through some techniques that will help you get it out.ġ. Put one of those in there and it’s not coming out. No star CDs, no saw blade CDs, no business card CDs, no mini CDs. That means “round and of regulation size.” It also means “not like any of those in the picture below.” Here’s how to handle it when they do.Īctually, the first thing to do is NEVER insert a CD (or a DVD) into your Mac’s SuperDrive unless it is the typical size and typical shape. You might be thinking “What could be so hard about ejecting a CD? Push a button and out it comes.” Well, yes, but… sometimes things go wrong. Here’s another tip for Dad, the new iMac owner.